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The Weight of Water
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Total votes: 163
Average Rating: 3
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Year: 2000
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Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Sean Penn, Richard Donat, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley, Ulrich Thomsen, Vinessa Shaw, Anders W. Berthelsen, Katrin Cartlidge, Josh Lucas
This complicated mystery, directed with passionate intensity by Katherine Bigelow (Near Dark), deserves better than the paltry distribution it received in theaters. Granted, it's a tough sell: a contrast between the emotional unrest in a group of modern travelers and a hundred-year-old murder case on a desolate New England island. A photographer (Catherine McCormack) is researching the old case, and we flip back and forth between time periods as she uncovers new clues. The parallel-story structure is often tricky to pull off in movies, and Bigelow, working from the Anita Shreve novel, doesn't entirely solve it here. But the old mystery, set in a strict Norwegian community, is compelling, and the cast is stronger than the material: Sarah Polley and the late Katrin Cartlidge are stand-outs in the 1873 scenes, and Sean Penn (believably insufferable) and Elizabeth Hurley flirt naughtily in the modern.
Source: Robert Horton (Amazon.com)
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