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Kissing Jessica Stein
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Last night Beth and I went to see
Kissing Jessica Stein
at Cambridge Warners.
I read a review of this movie in the Guardian a while ago but Warners didn't seem
to be bothering to show it. However they put on a total of two performances
of it yesterday, one mid-afternoon and one at 18:45. There were only about
fifteen people at the 18:45 show, and they saw one of the funniest movies
I've seen in a while.
In brief the Jessica's a jewish princess in New York who has been through a
series of disastrous men and now, in her late 20s, has her mother and her
friends desperately trying to find the right man for her. She's also a
Rilke
fan. One day one of her friends reads out an ad in the personals with a
Rilke quote in it, Jessica's ears prick up, an intellectual soul mate at
last, only for her hopes to be dashed when she realises that it's in the
"woman seeking woman" section ... but she goes on the date anyway.
The woman she meets is a promiscuous non-Jew with three male partners on the
go who wants to experiment with lesbianism for a change.
Sounds like a disaster in the making, but they fall in love despite that.
There's some hilarious sequences where they are trying to make love, some
very emotional ones where Jessica in particular is trying to get her head
around the whole "being with a woman" thing, some great gags and set pieces
and overall it's really rather fine other than an ending that smelled a bit
of "we didn't know how to end this movie".
Warners will probably never show it again mind you, but if you come across
it on DVD/video or at the Arts then watch it. It's good.
| Tags: films |
Written 19/09/02 |
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