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Anthony LaPaglia "Lantana...
...LANTANA...
...certain of that--or anything else in director Ray Lawrence's wonderfully intricate Lantana. Before it is over, four unhappy couples will be linked in consistently surprising yet persuasive ways by Andrew Bovell's screen adaptation of his play Speaking in Tongues, which hides the cleverness of its development under a tough-talking, tough-minded manner...
Lawrence's style, naturally lit and roughly realistic, matches the writing. Lantana sometimes has the air of a routine police procedural, sometimes the quality of a dour film noir. But this movie, so alert to mischance and dreams that don't quite work out as they should, has a good soul, a heart yearning for decency. What's terrific about it is the way it lets us discover those qualities subtly, inferentially...
...LANTANA A woman disappears after her car breaks down. A troubled cop (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates. He's soon caught up in a mystery that is less a twisting line than a series of surprisingly interlinked, steadily shrinking circles. Director Ray Lawrence and a great cast always remember that the enigmas of the human heart provide our most entrancing puzzles...