Fresh
This beautifully realized film retains the essential qualities of short fiction: precision, compactness, a focus on epiphanic moments.
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Overview
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Director and cast
- Rebecca Miller Director
- Kyra Sedgwick as Delia Shunt
- Parker Posey as Greta Herskowitz
- Fairuza Balk as Paula
- John Ventimiglia as Narrator (voice)
- Ron Leibman as Avram Herskowitz
- Wallace Shawn as Mr. Gelb
- David Warshofsky as Kurt Wurtzle
- Leo Fitzpatrick as Mylert
- Tim Guinee as Lee
- Patti D'Arbanville as Celia
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
These are complex characters.
Steven Rosen, Denver Post
Fresh
It accumulates small details that gradually create a feeling of narrative intimacy.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Three exquisite boutique films whose impact is much larger than many movies five times their size.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
If the movie is finally stuck halfway been cinema and prose, Miller proves that it's not an unfertile place to linger.
David Edelstein, Slate
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