Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 8, 2008 12:58:57 GMT
Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson 1994 | New Zealand Two young girls strike up a close friendship, and both sets of parents are alarmed by the intimacy. A tragedy which may have deserved a more sombre, brooding treatment; Jackson piles on artifice in order to create a kind of fantasy world inhabited by its two adolescent girls, but in the process risks heavy-handed campness, distracting and tiresome until the powerful final scene, which is necessarily brutal and haunting. The obnoxious, overplayed characters don't help.
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