USA

THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER

CREDITS 

35mm - Colore - 106’

Direction: Rodrigo Garcia
Screenplay: Rodrigo Garcia
Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Musics: Ed Shearmur
Editing: Amy E. Duddleston
Setting: Jerry Fleming
Costumes: George L. Little
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Valeria Golino, Calista Flockhart, Matt Craven, Kathy Baker.
Producer: Jon Avnet, Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens
Production: Jon Avnet e Franchise Pictures
Distribution: Mikado

SYNOPSIS

Elaine Keener, a gynaecologist, at an old patient’s home receives the fortune-teller Christine. She predicts that in a short time she will meet the man of his life. But it is a long time since Elaine has given up falling in love. Rebecca, a bank manager, has an affair with a married man. When she got pregnant and wants to abort, she comes to term with her lover’s indifference. She ends up by sleeping with her colleague Walter, and the next morning she goes to Elaine in the clinic where she works. She aborts and then in the street she breaks into tears. Rose, who lives with her adolescent child, on her way home gives a lift to a dwarf, a neighbours of hers. In the night this man shows up in front of her and then she goes and spies him at his house. Kathy, a police detective, is investigating on the presumed murder of a former school-fellow. Meanwhile Carol, her sister, followed by many admirers, is getting ready to go out with Walter. Carol is blind but she has got intuitions which helps Kathy, who has a difficult nature. Christine, back home, sits besides her friend Lilly by now condemned by a terminal illness.

CRITICAL NOTES

"Enhanced by the beautiful light by Emmanuel Lubezki and by a great cast, Garcia grasps every time the moment of truth, the one in which the characters are suddenly shown for what they are, they realise a silent or hidden reality. But he does so with no hauteur, but with all the possibile sympathy and comprehension, endearing to the public these unhappy, apparently impassive women (…) What else? Solitude, dependence, families or pseudo-families, friendly and deceitful as traps: it was difficult to deal with such a delicate subject with a style so sharp and light at the same time. A director is born”. (Fabio Ferzetti)