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Starring: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp

Directed By: Sally Potter

This has been a recurring segment where i take one of my favorite directors and speak quite alot about the movie. But this time i seem to be a little weary of this style. There is a certain difference in the way this movie has been approached by the director Sally Potter compared to her latest works like the immensely likeable YES. But this doesnt mean i m taking anything away from the film. It is another one of those cultural murals that this director is so indulgent in doing that it gives you sense of where is she actually from. Within a line it would be difficult to sum this sparsely populated yet complicated tour de force played by Christina Ricci. Its a journey that almost breaks the values of communication and an acute pain that is associate with such a journey. It is a delving of various ideals and people of totally different backgrounds who end up in Paris and creates a sort of oneness that is very rare to see in cinema.

But this just the beginning of what this story has to offer. It speaks of love and longing in several different transitions that are explored with a varying speed. A speed that is not associated with love in cinema. Sally drives the film to a fateful meeting between a daughter and father but the amount of mishaps along the way are at times monumental. Sally has put herself into the story and become each of the characters. She at times gives alot to the growth of each of these characters. The film is also very layered with many of the emotions and themes that our spread out and at times provide necessary digression. It also leaves us hungry to know where the plot will go. But it thickens and keeps rotating itself like one of the scenes shot on Cate Blanchett’s character who swims in a pool and exhibits a tumult of emotions. It is this scene that provides with many precursors of where this film might be headed to. Sally also plays with many of the age old themes of holocaust to bring in a certain depth to these characters.

It is not a film that all of you will instantly fall in love with. It is a film that has a definite purpose that is written all over it. It doesnt seem to rush to any conclusions. Sally doesnt want her movie to end but she knows it has to stop. But the breaks are pressed in the final reels and you hear beautiful sounds resounding in your ears by the end of this debacle. The film will leave you tingling and out of breath but this is true for all great films.

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