Because I need to clear my mind before getting down to the serious business of reviewing a movie...
...I just have to say:
If you're making an emotionally intense but quiet and understated intimate drama about a couple torn apart by their grief over the death of their little boy, and the broken-hearted wife and mother is played by Heather Graham, including a scene of Graham naked, on her knees and elbows, in bed, demanding that her lover for the night spank her and call her a bad mother is a very brave and risky artistic decision, although not necesarilly the smartest one.
If you manage to get away with it, you are on your way to making a pretty good movie.
If you can get Heather Graham to act, you're an amazing director.
Posted by: Ken Houghton | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 07:06 AM
Heather Graham has no need to act. Herself is just fine, TYVM. And if she needs to be spanked and called a bad mommy, well..............I'm available.
Posted by: bob | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Fine as long as being a mommy's a game. If it's real it demands constant devotion. And while I can go along with a "bad mommy being spanked," it certainly makes me wish our culture provided other, and honorable, ways to grieve.
But it's movie, so on with show.
Posted by: Kathleen Maher | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Without comment.
Posted by: Ken Houghton | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I agree.
As to Graham's acting - I think she's pretty good in Drugstore Cowboy, Boogie Nights and Bowfinger. I don't think she has great range, though, but since I haven't seen this film yet, I guess we'll see.
Posted by: Batocchio | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 09:24 PM
Your long sentence has a verb but no subject.
Posted by: Howard Meyers | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 02:24 PM