High Art . Tucson Weekly . 07-06-98

High Art

DIRECTED BY: Lisa Cholodenko

REVIEWED: 07-06-98

"High melodrama" would be a more apt description of this ambitious but annoying soap opera by first-time director Lisa Cholodenko. Radha Mitchell plays Syd, a twenty-something Manhattanite stuck in a boring heterosexual relationship. When her ceiling starts to leak she goes to meet the Bohemian upstairs neighbor, Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), a heroine-snorting lesbian. Syd seems to have no choice but to fall for Lucy, given the boringness of her job and the one-dimensionality of her boyfriend. It's a walk on the wild side, but a predictable one. Cholodenko has a good eye and the cinematography is appropriately lush, but rather than being beautiful, it just makes it all seem pretentious.

--Richter

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