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Directorial flourishes such as these elevate Eve's Bayou and bolster the story. The film is a collection of indelibly etched images, from the casual falling of a hat to a spider weaving its web. But Lemmons and cinematographer Amy Vincent never allow visual flair to obscure the story. Lemmons uses these tricks sparingly in favor of understated, poetic imagery...
...friend of Bill Clinton's, Klein stepped into the void left by the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and helped the First Family navigate Whitewater turmoil. He steered the Supreme Court nominations of Ruth Bader Ginzburg and Stephen Breyer through Congress before joining Justice in 1995 as understudy to then antitrust chief Anne Bingaman...
...time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New World society in which the pre-planned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, a "natural" who borrows the identity a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook. --Lynn...
Literally so, in the case of an "in-valid" (nice pun there) named Vincent (Ethan Hawke), who since childhood has dreamed of being an astronaut. As we discover him at the beginning of Gattaca, he's on the brink of achieving this goal--he has formed an alliance with a valid (Jude Law) who has been invalidated by an accident. For a fee, the valid supplies Vincent with the stuff he needs--including blood and urine--to satisfy the endless identity checks at the space agency where he works...
...things than he is with these little ones. His vision of a heavily sanitized and overrational future is perhaps inevitably more chilly than chilling. And since emotion has been bred out of most of the people he's concerned with, the movie's relationships--notably a romance between Vincent and a co-worker played by Uma Thurman--tend to be distant and not very involving...