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| Miramax | Release Date: November 16, 1994 |
Starring:
Clive Merrison, Diana Kent, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Goldie, Jed Brophy, Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey, Peter Elliott, Sarah Peirse, Simon O'Connor
Summary:
Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
Jackson’s visionary triumph, heightened by the blazing performances of Lynskey and Winslet and by Alun Bollinger’s whirling camera, is in capturing the delirium as the girls whip themselves into an erotic frenzy with Mario Lanza records, semi-naked dances in the woods and revenge fantasies.
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A stunning achievement. [14 Oct 1994]
An exhilarating retelling of a 1950s tabloid murder, it combines original vision, a drop-dead command of the medium and a successful marriage between a dazzling, kinetic techno-show and a complex, credible portrait of the out-of-control relationship between the crime’s two schoolgirl perpetrators.
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Jackson uses seamless, state-of-the-art visual effects to capture the girls' shared fantasies. One would expect nothing less from the director of the technically proficient horror movie, "Dead/Alive." The surprise here, and the key to the film's success, is his casting and handling of the young unknowns playing the girls. [23 Nov 1994, p.D3]
The Kiwi native proved he had more up his sleeve than trashy schlock.
Unlike the campy excess of Jackson's earlier Dead Alive, this kind of deliberate overkill—which extends to the broad caricatures of the girls' families as well as the girls' feverish fantasy life—ultimately points toward a dearth of ideas rather than a surfeit, though the story remains sufficiently interesting and troubling to hold one's attention.
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Oct 28, 2021
One of the best films and performances that I've ever seen. Kate Winslet nears perfection.
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Apr 23, 2021
Jackson shows his talents as a director in this dreamlike telling of one of NZ's most infamous crimes.
Both Winslet & Lynskey are captivating in the lead roles.
Both Winslet & Lynskey are captivating in the lead roles.
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