In the Cut (2003)
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
An English teacher divides her time between her job, her half-sister and her passion for words. When her New York suburb is affected by a brutal killing she makes the acquaintance of a police detective she suspects may be implicated, but she becomes sexually involved with him anyway.
Review:
Shot claustrophobically in saturated colour, shallow and narrow focus, this remarkable film completely involves you in its closely circumscribed world (mostly strip joints, bars and dingy apartments) so that you accept the protagonist's irrational behaviour. The real subject of the film is the predicament of the modern urban woman, sexual but lonely, wary of falling prey to men but hungry for contact. Highly erotic it is, too, though it offers an unrelievedly grim picture of humanity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
An English teacher divides her time between her job, her half-sister and her passion for words. When her New York suburb is affected by a brutal killing she makes the acquaintance of a police detective she suspects may be implicated, but she becomes sexually involved with him anyway.
Review:
Shot claustrophobically in saturated colour, shallow and narrow focus, this remarkable film completely involves you in its closely circumscribed world (mostly strip joints, bars and dingy apartments) so that you accept the protagonist's irrational behaviour. The real subject of the film is the predicament of the modern urban woman, sexual but lonely, wary of falling prey to men but hungry for contact. Highly erotic it is, too, though it offers an unrelievedly grim picture of humanity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
An English teacher divides her time between her job, her half-sister and her passion for words. When her New York suburb is affected by a brutal killing she makes the acquaintance of a police detective she suspects may be implicated, but she becomes sexually involved with him anyway.
Review:
Shot claustrophobically in saturated colour, shallow and narrow focus, this remarkable film completely involves you in its closely circumscribed world (mostly strip joints, bars and dingy apartments) so that you accept the protagonist's irrational behaviour. The real subject of the film is the predicament of the modern urban woman, sexual but lonely, wary of falling prey to men but hungry for contact. Highly erotic it is, too, though it offers an unrelievedly grim picture of humanity.