the sofa's the beauty

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2000)

The film seems to move effortlessly beyond the satirical, to the places where real pain and vulnerability lurk. The central image was not, for me, the beautiful film (NOTE the fictionality and artefact) of the bag blowing. it was the image of catatonic stillness, the silent despair of Mrs Fitts sitting (not swirling) at her dining room table and subsequently woodenly saying goodbye to her son. I was amazed and astounded by it all. One thing though that discomforts me. So much of the time Annette Bening had the verbal and facial mannerisms of Shirley McLaine. What's that all about Warren?