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Rachel Getting Married

Dir Jonathan Demme w/ Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt. 114 min. Gala Presentations.

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BY Adam Nayman   September 01, 2008 14:09

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Jonathan Demme’s best film in years is at once a companion piece and a corrective to Margot at the Wedding, with which it shares a basic premise: the return of a prodigal daughter to the familial fold on the occasion of a backyard wedding. Noah Baumbach’s acrid anti-comedy mocked the union at its centre and revelled in its characters’ crippling dysfunction; Rachel Getting Married, scripted by Sidney Lumet’s daughter Jenny and featuring cameos by many of Demme’s old collaborators (including a camcorder-wielding Roger Corman) lavishes extended affections on its titular nuptials. And it gives each of its emotionally wounded principals — the most spectacularly bruised being Anne Hathaway’s attention-seeking ex-junkie/sister-of-the-bride (a great performance) — a fair shake. This unsentimental yet supremely generous movie is probably best summed up in the lyrics of the song sung by wedding guest Robyn Hitchcock (quite possibly playing himself): “I’m up to my neck in love.” 

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