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02/09/06
Marion Bridge (2000)
75 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 12 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis: This drama from Canadian director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld explores the strained relationships between three sisters, who after learning that their mother is sick, gather in their childhood home of Nova Scotia. The most visibly troubled of the group, Agnes (Molly Parker)--the youngest of... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Molly Parker, Rebecca Jenkins, Stacy Smith, Ellen Page, Elissa Sursara
Director: Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
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1 - 19 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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Too many scenes are colourless and unimaginative...There’s a gap between the pedestrianism of life and the necessary dramatic tension of art [that] this film never bridges.
12/01/03
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06/23/03
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04/20/03
Given Marion Bridge trots out almost every cliche of the chick flick, it is all the more remarkable that it works as well as it does.
04/18/03
The flick takes its sweet time to deliver the unsolvable life situations in a delicate, real way -- playing out like a good book -- and the solid cast is totally in sync with its rhythm.
04/18/03
Takes the raw ingredients of soap opera -- the spilling of family secrets and the opening of old wounds as a parent slips away -- and spins them into something truthful and quietly compelling.
04/17/03
Top Critic
While the situations and characterizations ring true, if a bit melodramatically, the film is so understated that little dramatic effect registers.
04/15/03
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This family drama adapted from his play by Canadian writer/actor Daniel MacIvor ("The Five Senses") plays like a Chekovian take on "Aberdeen"
04/13/03
Parker is very good at conveying Agnes' wobbly mixture of instability and emotional bravery, and Jenkins finds the sad, lonely ache below Theresa's urge to regiment the lives of everyone in the family.
04/11/03
The gray, lazy Nova Scotia atmosphere helps a great deal.; the cold and fog permeate the film indoors as well as out.
04/11/03
There is some good acting on view as we watch Agnes' brave attempts to face up to a past that includes incest and pregnancy, but Daniel McIvor's adaptation of his stage play is hardly going to quicken anyone's pulse.
04/11/03
Takes you by surprise by coming right at you, then slowly sneaking around behind you, integrating you into this family.
01/07/03
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