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[FILM REVIEW] Little Children
1,8.07
LITTLE CHILDREN
Directed by Todd Field
Starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly
Review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
There were a few things that bugged me about this movie: voiceover narration (unless there's a real artistic need for it, it's one of my pet peeves -- it always seems like cheating, as if the filmmaker didn't trust himself to tell the story using all the other tools of filmmaking, and in this case, director Todd Field didn't need it); and a plot line that's more than a bit over the top in its portrayal of a small-town brimming over with marital unhappiness, sexual infidelity, perversion, and violence.
Once you get past all that, however, LITTLE CHILDREN is good fun. If nothing else, how can you lose with a film in which Kate Winslet plays an unhappy housewife who has a madly erotic affair with a married man (there's enough there for a whole movie, and Winslet pretty much steals this one)?
Also, it may very well be the case that Field's portrayal of this small town (courtesy of Tom Perrotta's novel) is actually a lot closer to reality than any of us would like to admit. While the sense of "community" -- in the nosy involvement of everyone in each others' lives -- stretches credibility (don't most people in a small town keep to themselves?), Field and Perrotta do an excellent job in weaving together the many seemingly unconnected strands of people's lives in a satirical dissection of suburban sexual and romantic angst.
And then again, there's Kate Winslet, who's supposedly the UGLY DUCKLING next to Jennifer Connelly. Hah!
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