Rachel Getting Married

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Drama

It's not about me.
-Kym

Plot:
Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns home from rehab the day before her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), is getting married to Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), a musician. Her arrival causes long-standing family tensions to rise to the surface.

They Say:
Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a triumph of ambience", and that Hathaway, DeWitt, Irwin and especially Winger are working at a very high level. Roger Ebert's four-star rating added, "apart from the story, which is interesting enough, Rachel Getting Married is like the theme music for an evolving new age." Other critics praised Jonathan Demme for USA Today "a career of cinematic good works" (Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer) and "his best film since The Silence of the Lambs...as raw as Ingmar Bergman and as operatic as Mildred Pierce (Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly).

Peter Travers noted that Rachel Getting Married is "a home run...[it goes] deep into the joy and pain of being human." A.O. Scott of the New York Times said that the film has an undeniable and authentic vitality, an exuberance of spirit that feels welcome and rare.

I Say:
I was shocked at Anne Hathaway's performance. She was so superb.

The story was good. I can see myself in Kym: very faulty and seeking too much for attention. The way it narrated the story made it different from the rest of the films. At first you may find some scenes that is too trivial to be aired but then, at some time you will realize that the scene either symbolizes something or it will trigger some important part of the story.

RGM is a story of a family who, obviously, almost subsided by some turn of events. From her arrival to the end, it showed how chaotic families can be. It's a very sad part of life, but I'm used to it.

RGM is the story if you want to understand people like me. If you want to understand me.