Seventeen-year-old Colombian girl María Álvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) works in sweat shop-like conditions at a flower plantation. Her income helps support her family, including an unemployed sister (Patricia Rae) who is a single mother. María becomes pregnant by a man who doesn’t love her, as he proposes to marry her but declines because she does […]
13 Conversations About One Thing
13 Conversations About One Thing is a smartly written and wonderfully acted movie about happiness and fate. It takes four characters and blends their stories into a delicate but potent mix. The movie starts with a scene whose significance will be understood at a much later stage. John Turturro, playing a physics college professor is […]
A Walk on the Moon
Although its tale of marital crisis, A Walk on the Moon is a story that gently involves. The characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she’s one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on […]
An Unmarried Woman
Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband Martin (Michael Murphy) of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in […]
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