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...directed by Anthony Minghella, whose mostrecent work is "Truly, Madly, Deeply," Mr.Wonderful" lightly brushes over too manystereotypical scenarios and characters to eversurpass cliche. The movie mentions--thenskirts--Lee's embarassment about their Italianupbringing in the 'neighborhood.' The script alsoleaves William Hurt no opportunity to ressurrecthis character from painful one-dimensionality.Hurt plays a pompous and self-centered professorwho dates his students, but happens to be marriedas well. The movie gives no source for hisdetached air besides the fact that he isannoyingly over-cultured...
...script demands minimal direction, and Chris Scully obeys. He supplies a first-rate set, flamboyantly plastering the floor and walls with old movie posters, while dispensing with all excess furniture. The end product proves visually engaging without distracting the viewer...
...play progresses, he adapts his style admirably to the ups and downs of his character's troubled psyche, playing the sobered, morning-after Gould with dull compassion. But, especially in Gould's brasher incarnations, Zelman never seems quite convinced that he can carry off such an outrageous script. He knows that we know that he's acting...
Unfortunately, those Hollywood executives didn't realize that it takes more than a premise to make a movie. It takes a plot. It takes a script. It takes a talented cast. Above all, it takes a director who can take these ingredients and move them beyond the gimmick, shifting the perspective ever so slightly to invest an old story with new life...
...excellent script, joined with the accomplished performance of Serrault and the sensitive direction of Christian de Chalonge, make this a masterful film about sanity and madness, good and evil, and the strange connections between them. When at the end Dr. Petiot tries to elude police by jumping through a movie screen again, the film has come full circle. The final scene--showing the "inventory of evidence," the luggage that Petiot's victims had intended to bring to South America--has the feel of a Holocaust documentary. But here the killer has a voice, as he pleads for understanding...