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...approaches adulthood. However, the haunting presence of silhouetted heads behind the screens functions as the perfect atmosphere for Wallace's monologues. Looking at the silhouettes is like staring into Wallace's mind and seeing the different women that have come into his life: Victoria (Markella Zanni), Sarah (Leah Altman), Lili (Hilary Weissberg) and Nina (Alexandra Marolachakis). They all fuse into one woman, Wallace's dead mother, of course...
Elaine's suicidal daughter, Grace (Lili Taylor), is a bizarre amalgamation of hobbies. Chain-smoking and accordion-wielding, Grace spends half her time playing with her transcendental turtles and the rest trying to seduce Axel. Whe finally succeeds, to tragic consequences, it's as if the two women are rifting on a sequel to "Mommie Dearest...
...Summer House isn't really a funny movie, though it is often wry, sometimes wise and generally genial. It is, more than anything, a rather sober meditation on life's tendency to disappoint. "I had hoped to die young," says Lili (Jeanne Moreau), "but now it's too late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic...
...second child, Teresa (Lili Taylor), is a healthy girl who becomes a religious fanatic. After her father forbids her to join a convent, Jesus appears to her at her boyfriend's apartment. "Falling in love" with Him, she is committed to a mental ward and by the end of the movie merits canonization by her neighborhood...
...course, all very subtle, and one has difficulty overlooking Tracey Ullman's coarse performance as an Italian-American butcher's wife. Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...