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Six Intimate Theaters
The Best in Foreign
and Independent Film
Luke Wilson (right) plays Ben Kingsley's gay AA mentor in You Kill Me.
keeps his cameras out of the torture chamber,
focusing instead on the plight of Pearl’s pregnant
wife, Mariane. Angelina Jolie delivers one of her
best performances ever, convincingly shifting
from stoicism to hopefulness to despair as Mariane
hears varying reports on her husband’s fate. A-
—SB
Sicko
Once again, Michael Moore has delivered the
awful truth. You are not going to find the sick,
inconvenient data laid and layered out in this
documentary anywhere in mainstream media—
who receive millions of dollars from health care
and pharmaceutical companies. Instead, you will
continue to be misinformed (misdiagnosed) about
health care from those who profit from your
maladies. Supporting Sicko is an antidote. A
—John Esther
Transformers
Having been in college during the original
Transformers invasion, and not particularly caring
about things mechanical, 1 approached this big
budget live-action film with trepidation. What
1 encountered was a slightly dumb, but mostly
entertaining, feature filled with jaw-dropping
special effects and more humor than you’d expect
from a film about giant robots stomping rhe crap
out of each other. Everyone takes it seriously except
John Turturro, who overacts as if he’s in a vaude
ville routine and spoils each scene he’s in. At 2 1/2
hours, it’s a bit long, but if you check your brain at
the door and allow massive robot fights, property
damage and the love story (between a geek, his car
and the hot bad girl) to wash over you like a vio
lent breeze, you’ll have some fun. B
—AM
Unconscious
First released in Spain in 2004, this lively and
hilarious flick is getting some long-overdue love
here in Portland courtesy of Living R<x)m Theaters.
Set in Barcelona in 1913, it’s a dizzying blend of
mystery, slapstick romance and Freudian comedy
(in the truest sense) that reminds you how good it
is to get out of America once in a while.
Alma Pardo is a modern woman married to
psychiatrist Leon, who has a mysterious meltdown
after studying under Freud and goes missing. To
find him, Alma enlists the help of her brother-in-
law Salvador, kicking off a caper that’s as sophisti
cated and perfectly timed as the best of Pedro
Almodovar. Along the way we meet Alma’s bi
sexual sister Olivia; her forbidding, alcoholic
mother-in-law, who takes a swig from Alma’s
perfume, thinking it’s gin; the perpetually cigar
chomping Dr. Mira, who presides over a conference
at which Freu*l will be the guest of honor; an over-
the-top prostitute who stabs Salvador in the
shoulder with a pair of scissors; and the original
Dr. Alzheimer, who is strangely forgetful during his
speech at a psychiatry conference. And this is only
a slice of the action.
Their search for Leon leads Alma and Salvador
to a cross-dressing party where they unexpectedly
bump into Olivia, who delivers one of the greatest
lines in a movie bursting with great lines: Sex with
a woman, she says, is “like the sweetest caress,
lasting for eternity.” Leon himself finally turns up,
kidnapping Salvador and confessing that his expo
sure to Freud’s theories made him aware of a laun
dry list of his own repressed perversions, including
incest, S/M and the fact that the love of his life is
none other than his old college chum, Salvador.
And so it goes all rhe way to the suitably dramatic
finale, in which the great Dr. Freud himself
appears and, against all odds, everything is brought
to a happy—indeed, orgasmic—resolution. The
only problem is you might have to see Unconscious
twice to take it all in, as you’ll probably be too busy
laughing the first time. A
—TL
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I Loved This Film! Brilliantly Acted!”
STEW OLDFIELD. FOX.TV
You Kill Me
John Dahl’s directing career got off to an aus
picious start with the terrific thrillers Red Rock
West and The Last Seduction, but his latest suggests
that he ought to take after Stella and get his
groove back. Most of the dialogue is flat, the
actors look bored, and the two major plotlines
merge unconvincingly. In a role that leaves him
awkwardly stranded somewhere between Gandhi
and his vicious character in Sexy Beast, Ben
Kingsley plays an alcoholic hit man with a heart
of gold, trying to dry out in San Francisco and get
into Tea Leoni’s pants. Luke Wilson has a small
and dull role as Kingsley’s gay mentor at
Alcoholics Anonymous. C
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