Tuesday, March 31, 2009
OVERCOME
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films was
This is an indie, small scale story about a wedding and the people caught up in it.
A tragicomedy really.
Funny around the ethnic stuff, the lower middle class tastes, the other accoutrements of the over the top wedding.
Not funny around the utter lack of readiness for these two kids to get married.
The preparations gain a life of their own and you can see these young people founder under it. By the end you want to grab them and tell them to stop.
The style of the film is docudrama. Very well done.
The groom is a hunk. But dumb and probably an alcoholic.
Even knowing all this, which I did because I saw it when it came out, you will enjoy this film. The film maker Nancy Saroka puts a new spin on an old genré.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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