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...When Night is Falling" is a deceptively grim name for a film that so magically explores the triumph of desire and true love. Written and directed by Patricia Rozema ("I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"), the movie manages to fuse the themes of Christian belief and homosexual desire in a refreshingly honest tale of attraction and awakening...
Written and directed by Patricia Rozema...
This identification is created through the ways in which writer/director Patricia Rozema lets us into Polly's life. At one point, we see a painting that Polly believes is the most beautiful she's ever seen. Instead of trying to find a suitable painting, an attempt that would inevitably have failed, Rozema fashions the painting as a brilliantly glowing rectangle. The pull of this personal vision, combined with Rozema's quirky humor, makes Mermaids irresistable...
Mermaids has additional strengths in Douglas Koch's unusual photography. He lends Polly's vision a beauty and a complexity which belie her naive exterior. The movie is lushly beautiful. Jeff Wolpert's Laurie Anderson-type music is as entrancing and quirky as Rozema's heroine. The sights and sounds transform the movie into a peculiar world that belongs only to Polly. As she says, "Isn't life the strangest thing you ever...
This Canadian comedy scans like a fairy tale for feminist preteens -- Ms. Nancy Drew. Like Polly, Writer-Director Patricia Rozema works entirely too hard to be ingratiating; her picture is a desperate audition for endearment. Falling in love with Mermaids, as many viewers will, is akin to feeding the homeless or adopting an orphan puppy: an act of humane surrender...