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(Movie review) HEIGHTS
7.13.05
HEIGHTS
Directed by Chris Terrio
At the Triplex Cinema, Great Barrington, Mass.
Based on a play by Amy Fox, HEIGHTS is a modest but satisfying urban drama with intelligent writing, marvelous New York City location shots, and terrific performances by its ensemble cast.
The film stars Glenn Close as a famous actress and acting teacher, and Pittsfield, Mass., native Elizabeth Banks, of SEABISCUIT fame, as her photographer daughter who is engaged to Jonathan (James Marsden), who has kept an important secret (or several secrets) from her that will derail their already shaky destiny.
It's a bit of UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS silliness, but instead of British gentry and servants it's contemporary New York bohemia, with successful and struggling artists vying for commercial success and emotional connections, and mostly failing utterly.
It's not lost on the audience that Close is rehearsing the role of Lady Macbeth, as she is something of a control freak who wants to manipulate the lives of everyone around her, most notably her daughter. That in the end her badly motivated actions become justified by the facts on the ground is just one of several witty twists that allow HEIGHTS to transcend the level of soap opera and become a satisfactory, emotionally resonant drama, in this day in the life of self-absorbed New Yorkers, all of whom are connected by one-degree of separation of a downtown walkup apartment building.
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