Monday, May 21, 2012

The Weight of Water

Sean Penn, Sarah Polley

Over-the-top melodrama which interwove a contemporary story with a century-old murder mystery. Although the film used modern production techniques, obnoxious close-ups, jagged editing rhythms and the like it played for all the world like a silent from the twenties...complete with cast-purging storm at the climax.

I was with this for a while but by the end they lost me. Best feature was the scene of the original crime...Smuttynose Island. Now there's a name to remember.

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