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...Natasha Lyonne)--15 and squirmy with all the anxieties, social and sexual, of her age group--knows better. The swell school district isn't worth what living in the slums of Beverly Hills entails: decamping from sleazy apartments at night to avoid the rent, taking in a crazy cousin (Marisa Tomei) in hopes her father will support the Abramowitzes in a style to which they're unaccustomed. There's farce in Jenkins' reflections on her adolescence. But there's also a tough-tender authenticity in her film that sets it poignantly apart from most coming-of-age comedies...
However, Katharina and her kindly lover, Dr. Bonfila Bezhukhovna Bonch-Bruevich (Marisa Echeverria '00), also make for an intriguing couple. Bonfila's sincerity and maturity don't match up particularly well with Katharina's crass horniness, but one can sense the sparks in their "opposites-attract" relationship, thanks to a surprisingly passionate lighting and musical love sequence. Plus, their prayers for vodka to a sanctified picture of Lenin--an act of hilarious blasphemy in itself--give Augustine the chance to bust into the scene as a hormonally-charged babushka with a bottle of liquor tucked into "her" panties, a moment...
...Vagina Monologues, a performance piece about female private parts by Eve Ensler that attracted Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder and Calista Flockhart, among others. The actresses had come to raise money to fight domestic violence, but the cause seemed lost amid the event's giddy theatrics. Featured were Marisa Tomei on the subject of pubic hair (sample line: "You cannot love a vagina unless you love hair"); Glenn Close offering an homage to an obscene word for female genitalia; and, finally, the playwright delivering three solid minutes of orgasmic moaning. The Village Voice called it "the most important and outrageous feminist...
Second, none of them are even nominated. [Author here rolls his eyes, or spits on the pavement, or blasphemes the gods who smiled on Geoffrey Rush and Marisa Tomei...
...Marisa Tomei makes a strong showing as theresourceful Suzy, but director Foglia has herworking at a disadvantage. He has the diminutiveactress decked out like a teenybopper, completewith jeans, day-glo top and sneakers. Apparently,he wants to emphasize her character's youthfulnaivete, but this seems like overkill. Suzy'salready blind and besieged by street thugs--doesshe also have to be the consummate ingenue...