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Dir. Jonathan Demme

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By Abigail Bruley

Director Joanthan Demme resurfaces his indie roots with a blithely affectionate film, putting us right in the room at Rachel's wedding, perhaps with our arms around the family, singing along to the multicultural soundtrack.  As small as it is expansive, Demme takes you from exuberant highs to painful lows and back again with his intimate verite style. I swear I'll never make fun of Anne Hathaway again. As Kym, the fresh-from-rehab, deeply troubled heretic, she is at her career's best. Rosemarie DeWitt is amazingly authentic as Rachel; Bill Irwin shines as the overwrought, affected father along with the rest of the cast; some actualy actors, some just friends and muses of Demme's. Jenny Lumet's nervous and emoional script invites us to the wedding, a festive revelation of talent shows, music performances (double points for Robin Hitchcock!), Neil Young accapellas and Saag Paneer. At it's most elated, viewers are reminded of films like The Celebration, with it's spirited savants and uncontainable warmth. In it's despair, it will remind you of Cassavettes' A Woman Under The Influence, cringe-worthy and disheartened at once, but with a quiet mutual understanding between actor and audience.

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