Director Sandra Goldbacher (The Governess) spills some beans about the dynamics, the turbulence, of female friendship, in this case the friendship since early girlhood of a Jewish intellectual and a Gentile airhead. The account seems candid and credible if not especially compelling. Bits of it, admittedly, are swallowed in the British accents and the dark photography. And there are perils, as ever, in the spanning of decades: the little girls, after a jump of only five years, don't match up with the bigger girls in the same roles; and Michelle Williams, from that point forward, doesn't age as convincingly as Anna Friel; and Nostalghia is cited by the highbrow as her favorite Tarkovsky film before he had even made it. With Kyle MacLachlan, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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