Subhead: "Three Portraits." In specific, portraits of Delia, Greta, and Paula, each in turn instead of intertwined. The omniscient narrator, male, keeps us constantly mindful of the literary roots of the material ("She felt the ambition drain out of her, like pus from a lanced boil"), a selection of short stories brought to the screen by writer-director Rebecca Miller, their original author. The digital-video image is in and out of focus, insecurely framed, shrouded in smog or coated in wax -- a ghastly thing to look at. With Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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