Jordan Beswick, C.S.A.

Sometimes the hallmark of a winning film is integrity - in the original sense of the Greek word meaning “integrated” and “whole” - when the film’s original vision seems perfectly to match its execution. That’s the perfume that rises off Laurent Cantet’s “The Class” (”Entre les Murs”), which screened at the tail end of Cannes 2008 and captured the Palme d’Or after a lineup of films that frequently landed wide of the mark. “Class” rolls out all of a piece - Cannes jury prez Sean Penn called it “seamless.” And while keeping its boundaries tightly delimited, “Class” opens a window on contemporary France and rainbow cultures beyond.

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Though literary works are catnip to filmmakers, it’s always dicey to reinvent one for the screen. Witness “Revolutionary Road,” which will send the unwary viewer reaching for the Welbutrin, despite the best efforts of Kate and Leo, reunited for first time since the boat went down. Trouble is, what often gets lost in the translation to screen is the element which can raise a dark book above merely depressing: language, a writer’s capital. Of course, very occasionally a film adaptation can be better than the novel - the case with “The English Patient,” which retained the original’s powerfully haunting tone, while spelling out the novel’s buried plot points. 

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by Kristi Mitsuda (December 7, 2008)

The Pacific Northwest on display in Kelly Reichardt’s latest film isn’t restorative, as in her lovely last, “Old Joy,” the lust forests of which temporarily heal an ailing friendship; nor is the setting here milked for moody, romantic potential as in the recently released “Twilight.” In “Wendy and Lucy,” the filmmaker instead harnesses the region’s notoriously forbidding grey skies to conjure an atmospheric bleakness suited to the impoverished underbelly of Portland.

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In Select Theaters December 17
A Darren Aronofsky Film

"Witness the Resurrection of Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky's Gritty, Deeply
Affecting Film." - David Ansen, Newsweek

Director Darren Aronofsky presents a powerful portrait of a battered dreamer,
who despite himself and the odds stacked against him, lives to be a hero once
again in the only place he considers home - inside the ring.
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