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Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Rated:
R
Country: USA, France, Canada
Language:
English
Runtime: 113 minutes |
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It is always difficult
to manage parallel stories in the past and present. Looking back
on the films that have used that device, not many of them are
that memorable. The French Lieutenant's Woman received some good
notices when it was released, but I can't remember much about
it now. I really like Dead Again, but that one walks a fine line
between being one of those films and making fun of those films.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Possession was a pleasant enough diversion if
one has a taste for a romantic, literary bauble now and then.
In
terms of the basic plotline, The Weight of Water probably has
the most in common with Possession. (The Weight of Water is the
earlier movie, although it passed through its theatrical release
virtually unnoticed in 2000). In both films, someone from the
present is investigating a mystery in the past, and that experience
is causing them to reflect on their own lives. The films are not
similar in tone, and they relate the parallel stories in very
different ways.
Nudity Report:
Elizabeth Hurley showed her breasts when sunbathing on the deck
of a sailboat. |
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