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Last
Dance
Stephanie
Daley HH (Dramatic Competition)
What
the
hell happened to Hilary Brougher? Back in 1997, she made a bit of a splash
with
The Sticky Fingers of Time, a low-budget sci-fi effort so challenging and
inventive that inattentive viewers are liable to find themselves as lost as
the
characters. So it’s a grave disappointment to see her finally reemerge with
a
film this painfully schematic. Amber Tamblyn, dark and sullen, plays a young
girl about to stand trial for having tossed her newborn infant in the trash;
Tilda Swinton, alternately imperious and tremulous, plays the psychiatric
investigator hired by the prosecution. Alas, Brougher works so hard to
establish
parallel emotional journeys for the two women that all credibility is
quickly
lost. (MD’A)
www.slweekly.com
Arts & Entertainment - January 26,
2006
By Scott Renshaw, Mike
D'Angelo
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