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...magnetism. While he's neither animal nor magnet enough to be fully convincing, he has some likable moments of sexual confusion. Poor thug, he can't be sure whether the creature he's pining after is a woman or a man. Edwards' direction turns up a couple of charming visual gags, and the sets are handsome and human scale; they don't overpower the actors...
Figgis is a refusenik in every way. Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie...
...three poets were introduced by Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, who gave a brief talk on the continuing relationship between the visual and the plastic arts...
...keeping with the spirit of the evening, the poets all commented upon their experiences with the visual arts and read poems connected to that theme...
Fortunately, Allen eventually dumps the wife stuff to concentrate on one of his classic characters: Linda, whom Sorvino wonderfully incarnates with a weenie voice and a brassy poignancy. The distracting visual trope of Allen's last few movies--that virtually every scene, no matter how long, must be filmed in one shot with a very fidgety camera--pays off in the first meeting of Lenny and Linda; the comic tension is deliciously built and sustained. And when the chorus breaks into some dreamy Cole Porter harmonies as background to an unlikely amour, the goofiness is almost magical...