In The Cut (Campion, 2003): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6pm
This 35mm screening (with introduction) is part of the Big Screen Classics strand at BFI.
Chicago Reader review:
One can easily pick apart this Jane Campion adaptation of a thriller by
Susanna Moore: it isn’t very satisfying as a thriller, and certain
details—like the heroine assigning Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
to her inner-city high school students—come across as just plain silly.
But I still consider this the best (which also means the sexiest)
Campion feature since The Piano, featuring Meg Ryan’s finest
performance to date and an impressive one by Mark Ruffalo. Scripted by
Moore and Campion, it takes on the unfashionable question of what sex
means for a single woman drifting into middle age, and what it says on
the subject veers from the obvious to the novel. Campion is better with
moods than with plot, and her capable handling of some actors (including
Jennifer Jason Leigh and an uncredited Kevin Bacon) ameliorates the
hyperbolic characters they’re asked to play.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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