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mon 2005-feb-14 14:09:19 pst   ...   permalink


Saturday night we watched Happiness, another film about screwed-up people. It was somewhat disturbing, but really, watching it right after La Pianiste, it was downright pleasant!

It follows a number of characters, all of whom are, well, a little weird in one way or another... None of them are really portrayed all that sympathetically, in the sense that we never really feel we can relate to any of them (though certainly some even less than others). But I thought they all felt very real, very believable, so that even the more extreme events that were described seemed quite plausible.

The cast is all great, but I especially enjoyed Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jane Adams' performances. The story is engaging and the conclusion is much more satisfying than La Pianiste, though granted that didn't take much.


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