A smaller picture like this, shot out of the mainstream, has a better chance of being quirky and original.Īnd quirky it is, even if not successful. That may mean he doesn't get paid $20 million a picture, but $20 million roles, with rare exceptions, are dogs anyway-because they've been chewed over and regurgitated by too many timid executives.
Winslet and Keitel are both interesting in the film, and indeed Winslet seems to be following Keitel's long-standing career plan, which is to go with intriguing screenplays and directors and let stardom take care of itself. And P.J., with his obsolete vocabulary of sexual references, is no match for the strong-willed young woman who overwhelms him mentally, physically and sexually. face off against each other, their struggle is not over cult beliefs, but about the battle between men and women. At this point I was hoping perhaps for something like " Ticket to Heaven" (1981), the powerful Canadian film about the struggle for a cult member's mind. Waters (Keitel) to fly over from the United States and deprogram her. Her parents trick her into returning, and hire P.J. Campion's first film, " Sweetie," was an extreme example "Holy Smoke" reins in the strangeness a little, although to be sure there's a scene where Keitel wanders the outback wearing a dress and lipstick, like a passenger who fell off " The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." Ruth, the Winslet character, journeys to India and falls under the sway of a mystic guru.
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Parents are totally unhinged beneath a facade of middle-class conventionality their children seem crazy, but like many movie mad people, are secretly saner than anyone else. Like so many Australian films (perhaps even a majority), "Holy Smoke" suggests that everyone in Australia falls somewhere on the spectrum between goofy and eccentric, none more than characters invariably named Mum and Dad. The director is Jane Campion (" The Piano"), who wrote the screenplay with her sister Anna. The film isn't really about cults at all, but about the struggle between men and women, and it's a little surprising, although not boring, when it turns from a mystic travelogue into a feminist parable.
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