Category: ‘Rachel Getting Married’

Hathaway sizzles in dreary ‘Rachel’

 

Ever been to one of those weddings that just will not end? “Rachel Getting Married” is the cinematic equivalent, a movie with a powerful performance from Anne Hathaway but a story undone by the self-indulgence of director Jonathan Demme, who loiters interminably on some scenes.

Anne Hathaway, left, is Kym and Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel in “Rachel Getting Married.”

Demme’s detours into documentaries (“Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” “Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains”) actually serve him well as he crafts a loose, docudrama style that infuses great authenticity into this anguished reunion tale of family and friends.

But Demme did the reflect-real-life thing almost too well. Many moments are genuine to the point where you feel trapped in a room with someone else’s relations in a marathon session of picking and clawing at old wounds. Continue reading

Review: Hathaway propels Demme’s ‘Rachel’

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Jenny Lumet, 113 minutes, rated R.

Jonathan Demme’s “Rachel Getting Married” isn’t really about Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) at all. It’s about her screwed-up sister Kym (Anne Hathaway in her best performance to date), a smoky, troublemaking but ultimately well-meaning mess on leave from a rehab facility who has been on drugs and booze for so much of her life, she unfortunately claimed another life along the way.

Just who that is won’t be revealed here, but it drives the emotions in a movie happy to unleash them at any point, which is often. Continue reading

Anne @ London Film Festival Rachel Getting Married Screening

I have uploaded new event of Anne recently attended the London Film Festival ‘Rachel Getting Married‘ Screening on October 20, 2008.

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– Events in 2008: London Film Festival Rachel Getting Married Screening

ReprintPrint Email Font Resize ‘Rachel Getting Married—: All in the dysfunctional family

“Rachel Getting Married” began life when director Sidney Lumet’s daughter, Jenny, imagined a young bride looking at herself in a three-way mirror. Then her sister bursts into the room, and the moment is either enhanced or — destroyed.Or perhaps a little of both.

As realized by director Jonathan Demme, “Rachel Getting Married,” which opens Friday, captures life in all of its messiness, juxtaposing a gorgeous wedding against a family confronting both a past tragedy and the present neediness (or is it selfishness — or perhaps unrecognized heroism?) of a daughter returning from rehab. The conflicts between the family members — the (by turns, blushing and bitter) bride, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt); the self-absorbed sister (Anne Hathaway); the overcompensating father (Bill Irwin); the emotionally closed-off mother (Debra Winger) — are so finely drawn that your sympathies usually lie with whoever spoke last. Continue reading

Review: Anne Hathaway sizzles in dreary ‘Rachel Getting Married’

Ever been to one of those weddings that just will not end?

“Rachel Getting Married” is the cinematic equivalent, a movie with a powerful performance from Anne Hathaway but a story undone by the self-indulgence of director Jonathan Demme, who loiters interminably on some scenes.

Demme’s detours into documentaries (“Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” “Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains”) actually serve him well as he crafts a loose, docudrama style that infuses great authenticity into this anguished reunion tale of family and friends. Continue reading

Photos @ Rachel Getting Married New York Variety Screening Series

I’ve uploaded new event photos of Anne at Rachel Getting Married New York Variety Screening Series on September 29, 2008.

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– Events in 2008: Rachel Getting Married New York Variety Screening Series

Photos of Anne at ‘Rachel Getting Married’ California Press Conference

I’ve uploaded new press conference photos of Anne promoting Rachel Getting Married in Beverly Hills, California on September 18, 2008.

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– Events in 2008: ‘Rachel Getting Married’ California Press Conference

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