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Rachel Getting Married

dir. Jonathan Demme / USA 2008 / 113’

subtitles: Polish and English

Panorama 12 Lotus, $9.99, Beeswax, Blue Beard, Breathless, Collectress, Ecce Momo!, Hooked, I am Not Your Friend + I Will Not Be Your Friend, Katalin Varga, Machan, My Only Sunshine, My Sweet Shirin, North, Nymph, Ordinary People, Palermo Shooting, Parque vía, Rachel Getting Married, Ricky, Schottentor, Seraphine, Stella, The Northern Land, The Other One, The Rat Herb, The Visitor, The White Ribbon, Two Lines, Under the Tree, Winter Silence Section index

Cast

Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie Dewitt, Bill Irwin, Mather Zickel, Tunde Adebimpe, Anisa George, Debra Winger

Film description

All the minute details are settled. Rachel has the dress and the veil, her friends are decorating the rooms and wedding guests are waiting for the party. But then the bride's sister comes to the house, out on a pass from her rehab, and you suddenly remember that the family is actually a problem. Will the egotist Kym, still suffering because of her past tragedy, steal Rachel's day? No use wasting time on the obvious things (yes, of course, Anne Hathaway deserved the Oscar much more than Kate Winslet; Jenny Lumet's screenplay is undoubtedly precise and excellently written; no question that the documentary form is perfect for the polyphonic, dynamic narrative; crime and punishment; redemption and forgiveness - all go perfectly well without a single false note). One perceives this film somehow differently. For Demme, family is a dozen streams of consciousness, united in a common past, present and future. The chaos of feelings and convictions is beyond understanding, but the more we try to unravel it, the more there is a chance for us to learn empathy.

Michał Walkiewicz