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...Kate Winslet comes on as a dull yet impressionable girl seeking spiritual redemption in the ashram of a slightly suspect Indian maharishi. Before Holy Smoke! ends, she will be found wandering the Australian outback, naked as a jaybird and horny as a toad, seeking quite a different sort of redeeming experience...
...Keitel, playing P.J. Waters, an American who specializes in deprogramming youthful cult followers at the behest of their parents, and Winslet, as Australian Ruth Baron, who specializes mainly in self-absorption, find themselves alone in a shack, arguing for one another's souls, is the substance of Jane Campion's curiously exhilarating and often quite funny film...
...know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly performances on Broadway, Friel often goes to a divey neighborhood bar, where she has been learning to swing dance. We suspect that she doesn't run into Dame Judi Dench or Kate Winslet there...
...this is not a Kate Winslet porn flick. The biggest mistake that the producers made in this film was choosing such a flashy title. I spent half of the movie waiting to find out what was so hideous and kinky about a hippy mother dragging her two kids around Morocco. Let me save you the trouble: "hideous kinky" is the "naughty" phrase that Winslet's two daughters invent and chant all over Morocco, enjoying the excitement of shouting out swear words while the natives remain unaware...
...title all cleared up, let's get to the story. Wait, there's a story? I promise you that there's one in there somewhere, but good luck following it. It starts out quite intriguing: the free love of the '60s had done some damage in London, as Julia (Winslet) finds herself unmarried with two little girls and the father nowhere in sight. The obvious solution is to hop on a train to Morocco and start anew. Right. The film starts abruptly, shoving you into their life in Morocco where the girls run wild through the dirt streets and mommy...