Thursday, November 17, 2011
UP AND DOWN
I am watching three films by Lisa Cholodenko, a great new director.
Today's film was
On the face of it, this is a lesbian love story, a double triangle. Some melodrama, that. But this is a smoke screen for the real theme which is drug addiction and the extent addicts will go to control their own life and not lose their high.
It takes a while to see this. That is the great thing about Cholodenko's writing and directing.
The classic ingenue, a young, straight, partnered goes upstairs to see why water is leaking through the floor to her ceiling. There she finds a group living situation to which she becomes attracted, the attraction turns to one of the women also in a couple and her life changes.
Her ambition then becomes involved in her attraction.
Acting is great with a favorite, Patricia Clarkson, playing a role so close to the edge of histrionic and hysterical that she would be hilarious if she was not so sad.
I saw this before and was happy to see it again so that makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films, gay life, lesbians
