In the Cut (Unrated Director's Cut)
by Jane Campion
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Actor: Allison Nega, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Ruffalo, Meg Ryan, Micheal NuccioDirector: Jane Campion
Brand: Sony
Writer: Jane Campion
Producer: Effie Brown
Producer: François Ivernel
Producer: Laurie Parker
Producer: Nicole Kidman
Writer: Stavros Kazantzidis
Writer: Susanna Moore
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
Published: 2004-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of In the Cut (Unrated Director's Cut)
DVD Review: neither here nor there
Summary: 3 Stars
Jane Campion is a very interesting director of some substance and style. In the Cut is a good trashy entertaining summer read, not great literature. The combination of the two results in a rather puzzling movie where the two elements wind up undermining each other. The movie winds up being nowhere near as fun as the book and nowhere near as compelling as Campion's other films.
Susanna Moore's thin book goes by very quickly hinged on a very filmsy rudimentary thriller plotline and structure, the same as countless other relatively lazy suspense films of recent decades: protagonist meets sexy mysterious but dangerous other person amidst a pattern of killings. Protagonist is attracted but suspicious that the object of their desire is responsible for the murders; who will turn out to be the killer? Of course scattered throughout are red herring suspects and clues to send you in various directions and draw out the revelation of the truth as long as possible. While the book had not much to recommend it with regard to the weak mystery or police procedural material at the core, it had a wonderfully oversexed quality and brazenness keeping you turning the pages and was well written enough in the details. What presumably attracted Campion to the material was the book's clear-eyed and overt engagement with the tropes and types of male-female relationships in the mystery genre; an opportunity to cast a feminist eye on a dynamic of violence and victimization, of the nature of attraction to danger (read masculine danger) and sexuality as self-expression.
An adaptation that recognized that the inherent weakness at the core of the book's mystery fatally undermines its deeper themes, and that instead played this material up for its lurid and sleazy qualities might have been truly fabulous and riveting. But the choice of Campion in trying to pursue the serious side goes in the opposite direction and I think is the wrong choice. She renders the world of New York and the characters with a tremendous amount of seriousness and gravity despite the fact that the plot events are completely farfetched and terribly silly; adding touches of realism to a completely unrealistic storyline and dialogue doesn't produce a more realistic movie, just a confused one. Campion adds a few personalized moments here (like a new backstory about the main character's father with some surreal fantasy imagery, a half-sister dynamic missing from the book where the same character is just a friend) but not enough of her own material to move the film away from the formulaic main storyline into a deeper examination of the supposed themes. Ryan is shot and made up to look as average and mundane as she could be genetically; while such a strategy makes sense to me in a movie like Monster, in the fantasy land that is this implausible storyline, what is to be gained by this approach? Ryan's purposefully unglamorous look winds up almost a distraction, as is an extended cameo from Kevin Bacon, where it's hard to think anything else besides "Oh there's Kevin Bacon."
The ending of the book is, as you might expect, tampered with; besides the box office reasoning, it was hard to imagine Campion ending the film the way the book does. The book's sex scene in the police station is also missing, perhaps unsurprisingly. Otherwise, the film is perhaps too faithful to the book really. Either Campion should have dispensed with pursuing the rather lame whodunit at the heart of this film and gone totally serious doing a film about lonely people looking for sex or someone else should have done this movie as pulpy sleaze noir; it just winds up with too little of everything to be really successful.
Although I assume that potential viewers already interested in this movie are unlikely to be prudes, you should be aware that the unrated cut of this movie contains a graphic and very real depiction of a sexual act not usually allowed in mainstream films (and it does not involve Meg Ryan incidentally). I appreciate the motivation for including the sequence, since the moment is pivotal to the narrative and the change in Ryan's character, but the very real shot of a sex act did have the odd effect by its inclusion of making the subsequent sex scenes between Ryan and Ruffalo seem rather staged and fake in comparison.
Description of In the Cut (Unrated Director's Cut)
IN THE CUT - DVD MovieBased on Susanna Moore's popular novel, In the Cut centers on Frannie (Meg Ryan), an emotionally stifled English teacher who gets steamy with sultry Malloy (Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count On Me), a cop who's investigating a series of brutal murders--but Frannie soon suspects that Malloy may be the killer. As a psychological thriller, In the Cut is heavier on psychology than thrills; the story is a skeleton that director Jane Campion (The Piano, An Angel at My Table) cloaks in one of the most nightmarish visions of urban life since Taxi Driver or Seven, accompanied by lots of explicit sex. The movie's dark tone will put some viewers off, but Ruffalo's effortless magnetism serves him well; no woman in the audience will question how quickly Ryan falls into bed with him. Also featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh and an uncredited Kevin Bacon. --Bret Fetzer
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