The Ice Storm (Lee, 1997): BFI Southbank, NFT 2.30pm & NFT1, 6.10pm
This re-release is getting an extended run at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Time Out review:
With its meticulous script by James Schamus, strong performances and elegant direction, this tragi-comic look at
the lives of a couple of comfortably-off small town Connecticut
families in the winter of 1973 is a gem of witty, perceptive
observation. Unbeknown to Joan Allen his wife, Kevin Kline is carrying on with
neighbour Sigourny Weaver, an affair discovered when he comes across his teenage
daughter Christina Ricci playing her own sexually explorative games with Weaver's
sons. Cue marital discord, adolescent disenchantment and family crises
in a thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and melodrama which is spot-on
both in its evocative re-creation of the fads, habits and attitudes of
the early '70s, and in its sense of an America at a particular point in
its socio-political history.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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