Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
It is foolish to expect an actor to work miracles, but for longtime moviegoers the name Sissy Spacek over a movie title promises that the film will have a core of integrity, at least in the scenes in which she appears. And when Ms. Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” a movie that has delusions of high seriousness, her plain-spoken delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
Her character, Maggie, is a self-sufficient farmer living alone in rural Virginia who contemplates selling her homestead. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3548 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 17 Novembre 2008