Rachel Getiing Married

Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lamb)
Cast: Anne Hathaway (The Devil wears Prada), Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger
Runtime: 113 min


Plot:


Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns home from rehab the day before her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), is getting married to Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), a musician. Her arrival causes long-standing family tensions to rise to the surface.

I watched this on 16 Jan evening with Vanessa @ Cineleisure. The movie was filmed in a naturalistic, documentary style, cameras moving alongside with the actors and even cameramen were in the movie. Although this type of filming may not be something new, it does stand out from the rest of the other movies recently released.

Anne Hathaway portrayed an addict who came home from rehab, wanting to be loved by family members again, yet she couldn't get over the fact that she was an addict, trouble maker, who caused the death of her little brother. So does everyone in the family. No matter how hard one tries not to think about the loss of a family, there will be little clues somewhere to tinkle you about it even though no one wants to bring such unfortunate incident again.

This is the beauty of being family. You may have made a mistake, small or grave one, they will forgive you, because you are family. But there will be regrets. You are given a chance to apologise but you missed the chance, or you just hesitate to apologise thus regrets always play a big part of one's life.

I like how the director / writer want audiences to feel the unison of family, race, culture, etc. And the many colours they used to tell this story, white marrying black, westerners wearing Indian costumes, Brazilians dancers at the celebration, etc.

ah-deng says: 4½/5 Almost perfect for a movie like this, wished if the romance part of Kym could be elaborate.