Firelight . Tucson Weekly . 10-12-98

Firelight

DIRECTED BY: William Nicholson

REVIEWED: 10-12-98

This hilarious sci-fi/comedy/period romance is what PBS will look like in the future, when all the other channels offer nothing but pornography and live executions. Andrea Dworkin would love the plot: It's about a woman (Sophie Marceau) who contracts out as a prostitute/baby machine for an anonymous rich man, with whom she instantly falls in love. After their three-day affair ends, she's never to see him again, though she must surrender the child they have conceived to his agents. Seven years later, she inexplicably becomes her own daughter's governess. I really cannot express how funny this film is: When Marceau finds her daughter, the daughter says, "Why did you give me away?"; and Marceau replies "I didn't--I sold you." I haven't heard so many guffaws in a movie theater since the death scene in Rocky IV.

--DiGiovanna

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