Turn the River (Widescreen)
by Chris Eigeman
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Actor: Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Lois Smith, Matt Ross, Rip TornDirector: Chris Eigeman
Brand: JANSSEN,FAMKE
Writer: Chris Eigeman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 68104956
Studio: Screen Media
Product features:
- TESTED
DVD Reviews of Turn the River (Widescreen)
DVD Review: A startling performance can go a long, long way...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm so happy I could cry.
Finally, a performance that is worthy to carry the name of Famke Janssen. I have been a huge fan of this girl since I first saw her in `Goldeneye' and then in the `X-Men' films. She just had this chemistry with the camera, this infectious hold over the audience. Sure, the movies were nothing extraordinary (although `X2: United' is a spectacular `super hero' movie) but she always brought a spark that I just fell in love with. Then I saw her on the FX series `Nip/Tuck' and I was blown away. Her development of character was stunning from beginning to end. I found myself wondering why she couldn't find a character like that to play on the big screen.
Kailey Sullivan is nothing like her feisty turn as Ava Moore, but this is finally the big screen performance that matches her talent.
Kailey is a pool shark struggling to connect with her son, Gulley. She has no visitation rights and has to sneak around to see him, but the bond is there and her heart breaks for every moment she can steal away with him. Kailey decides that she wants to be with her son, permanently, and so she devises a plan to hustle enough money (playing billiards) to run away with him, leave the country.
The film has a very nice flow to it, which I didn't expect. The pool scenes are very well shot and interesting, something else I didn't expect. I just watched `The Hustler' a few nights back and reviewed it a few days ago, mentioning that the pool scenes were shot poorly and were boorish. That is surprisingly not the case here. A lot of that has to do with the fact that Famke Janssen is so engaging that even when she is staring down her cue-stick at a group of seemingly harmless pool balls we can feel the intensity of the moment. Her grasp of character is flawless, seriously.
The film is not perfect, and its main imperfection comes at the very end. Many reviewers have griped about this very point, and I'm going to gripe again. The film is short (a little over 90 minutes) and it builds itself up quite well throughout the first three quarters of the film, but the last fifteen minutes or so fall to pieces. The film spirals down rapidly, as if it had built up all this tension for nothing, and then just ends.
I hate to say it, but I hate the ending.
That said, Famke Janssen makes up for it, and then some. She embodies Kailey with this marvelous naturalism, this uneasy confidence that comes with parenthood. You can read the worry, the pain, the struggle all over her face, but you can also see the excitement when her son is around and the happiness he brings her. She gives such a real and mature performance. I'm ashamed that the `Independent Spirit Award' body didn't nominate her for this riveting and mesmerizing performance. I just hope that Famke can catch a few more breaks like this one; then maybe one day she'll be an Oscar contender.
Then I'll really be crying.
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