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DVD In the Cut (Unrated and Uncut Director's Edition)
Based on Susanna Moore's popular novel, In the Cut centers on Frannie (Meg Ryan), an emotionally stifled English teacher who gets steamy with sultry Malloy (Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count On Me), a cop who's investigating a series of brutal murders--but Frannie soon suspects that Malloy may be the killer. As a psychological thriller, In the Cut is heavier on psychology than thrills; the story is a skeleton that director Jane Campion (The Piano, An Angel at My Table) cloaks in one of the most nightmarish visions of urban life since Taxi Driver or Seven, accompanied by lots of explicit sex. The movie's dark tone will put some viewers off, but Ruffalo's effortless magnetism serves him well; no woman in the audience will question how quickly Ryan falls into bed with him. Also featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh and an uncredited Kevin Bacon. --Bret Fetzer
Review(s): DVD In the Cut (Unrated and Uncut Director's Edition)
Everything You Know About Desire Is Dead Wrong!
Meg Ryan plays Manhattan English teacher Frankie Avery. When parts of a dismembered young woman are found in her back garden, Ryan is questioned by Detective Mark Ruffalo. Ruffalo asks Ryan out, and before long they're at it hot and heavy. But the day of the murder, Ryan was in the same bar as the victim, and witnessed, in the shadows, a man being fellated. That man had the same tattoo as Ruffalo, and Ryan begins to fear that her new lover is, at best, a liar. At worst...
In the Cut is gorgeously shot, turning Manhattan into a jagged, Gothic land of gold and brown and black. The frames pulse in and out of focus, emphasizing (some might say too obviously) the idea of how little one can trust one's eyes. The thing is, though, that in many ways Jane Campion's handsome film is essentially a high-class version of the erotic thrillers that populate cable TV, with some of the same problems. The thriller aspect moves at a ponderous pace, but the relationship's narrative arc is no better, taking forever to tell us not very much at all. As for the sex scenes, they aren't particularly torrid or interesting (though the oral sex scene that Ryan witnesses is very graphic, and fooled me into thinking it was hardcore until the commentary set me straight). Neither plot nor character driven, the film becomes an assembly of stunningly beautiful shots, but they aren't enough to sustain us for two hours.
Director/co-writer Jane Campion and producer Laurie Parker provide an interesting commentary, one that covers both the nuts-and-bolts aspect of the production and its thematic interests. That's about it as far as serious features are concerned. There's a mildly interesting, jaggedly edited featurette that provides definitions of the slang terms heard in the film, a standard-issue Makin-Of featurette, and trailers for In the Cut, The Missing, Sin and Trapped. The menu's main page, intro and transitions are animated and scored.
A fine film to look at, but finally a bit wearing to sit through. The performances by Ryan, Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh are fine, and the cinematography to die for, but its narrative is a too elliptical to grip.
Why such low reviews?
I cannot understand why this movie got such a low rating! This is actually one of my favorite movies. I love the surreal, almost dream-like quality of the film. There's also a raw edge to it that you don't see a lot of anymore in these types of films.
Yes, it is completely different from Meg Ryan's other more bubblier roles, but I think she did a wonderful job and was cast appropriately to play Frannie. Her and Mark Ruffalo's characters had such sexual chemistry, which is clearly evident in the sex scenes.
I gave this movie only four stars because it is a bit slow in some parts, and the ending? It is entirely different from the book! Other than that, I thought this was a wonderfully, beatifully shot and haunting film.
IN THE CUT
I ALWAYS KNEW MEG RYAN WAS BEAUTIFUL, BUT NOW I SEE SHE CAN BE EXTREMELY SEXY ALSO.GREAT MOVIE BECAUSE OF HER.
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