Word: psychodrama
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...appealing cast, led by Mulholland Drive's Naomi Watts. She's a reporter looking for a logical explanation for her niece's death and her son's increasingly haunted state. She almost finds one, and that proves to be a problem. What she discovers is a conventional mother-child psychodrama that doesn't persuasively match up with the film's supernatural elements. You keep waiting for someone to explain who shot, edited and distributed the Bunuel-on-a-bad-day video. The result is an edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish...
...competitions. She plays the sexual sadist with her prize student Walter (Benoit Magimel) yet engages in masochistic mutilation on her own. Erika would be quite a handful for any actress, but the great Huppert has a sure grasp on her. In this kinky, often goofy, never less than fascinating psychodrama, she makes sense of a stern, extreme personality. Huppert could be speaking to the audience as well as to Walter when she says, "I want all you want. I have all you need...
Every ambitious picturemaker should be allowed one wild misfire at no lasting cost to his reputation. Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) can now put this aside and go back to making good films. As for Cruise: after Eyes Wide Shut, Mission: Impossible II and this serioso goofball psychodrama, he might want to wait a while before he does another movie in a mask...
...from Shin's pooch park, Miwa Yanagi's floor-to-ceiling DVD projection places the viewer in a dark, endlessly receding corridor. White-coated female figures appear and vanish through doors off to the sides, whispering and gesturing. We could be in a mental hospital playing out some mysterious psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost...
...typical mental-hygiene film has all the earnest artlessness of an Ed Wood psychodrama. And those sweet, distressed faces belong to volunteer teen actors in Glenview, Ill. (home of Coronet Films, which produced some 500 instructionals just in the '50s), and Lawrence, Kans. (Centron Films). That's one appeal of these pictures today: their mid-American isolation from mainstream movie glamour, even as they aped Hollywood's techniques of storytelling and propaganda...