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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play's plot is complex. Jane (Lucia Brawley '99) and Tarik (Aaron Mathes '98), a young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...
...plot is always the same. People with problems--"husband says she looks like a cow," "pressured to lose her virginity or else," "mate wants more sex than I do"--are introduced to rational methods of problem solving. People with moral failings--"boy crazy," "dresses like a tramp," "a hundred sex partners"--are introduced to external standards of morality. The preaching--delivered alternately by the studio audience, the host and the ever present guest therapist--is relentless. "This is wrong to do this," Sally Jessy tells a cheating husband. "Feel bad?" Geraldo asks the girl who stole her best friend...
Rozema's enchanting directorial technique converts the somewhat cliched plot into a poetic and candid account of desire. The movie's subject matter is challenging, but the visual beauty which Rozema creates, along with the physical beauty of her actors, make Camille and her world seem attractive to any audience...
...writer/director Caveh Zahedi's homemade documentary about his road trip to Las Vegas with his estranged father and half-brother. It also offers Zahedi's attempt to prove the existence of God by simply letting the film happen without the conventional constraints of a script or even an intended plot...
...PLOT SICKENS...