Saturday 20 August 2016

Rachel Getting Married (2008 Jonathan Demme)

Like a wedding home video, very naturalistic portrayal is extremely well acted and hits quite hard. Anne Hathaway is terrific as the troubled daughter, so is Rosemarie DeWitt as her sister. It was also great to see Debra Winger again. With Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather Zickel and Anna Deavere Smith.

Shot and operated entirely hand held by Declan Quinn, film also has an unusually interesting soundtrack. Demme has always had a subtext about black America - here it comes to the fore in extremely integrated multicultural context.

It's moving. The one and only screenplay from Sidney's daughter Jenny Lumet.



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