Margaret

Anna Paquin   w/d  Kenneth lonergan

This was the director's cut 3 hour 9 minute version of this powerhouse film. AP should have received an award for this performance...she is in every scene and her character's plight is intense. We watch this over-privileged, over-educated spoiled Jewish princess cause a fatal accident which wrenches her out of her cocoon on the upper West side into the grit of reality...real feelings, real people, real trauma.

She spends most of the film floundering; turns to sex, anger, the law...anything she can think of to assuage her deep-felt guilt.

For stupid reasons this film never received the acclaim it deserved. It excelled in every respect. Special mention to the supporting performance of J. Smith-Cameron as the protagonist's mother.

I hope enough buffs pick up on this masterpiece and raise it to the stature it deserves.

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