Rachel Getting Married (2008)

That was an excellent one.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This movie is nothing as it is described in the plot trailer... I couldn't take any more of the insanity of untruths after only 34 min I had to turn it off, it just made me aggravated

Great movie. touching in it's attempt to understand it's heroes, slowly but fascinatingly evolving, while we come to get to know them closely and in depth. big drama but at the same time very human. kind of a free spirit movie. very good.

A wonderful little film that breaks the shackles of commercial cinema and gives us meaningful cinemaIt was nice to see the whole film revolving around a marriage Marriage process is shown in great detail, it begins with the marriage preparations and ends once marriage is over. That is, it begins with Kym's (Anne Hathway) return to home and her going back to rehab The movie, as the name states is about Kym's sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt) getting married, yet its mostly about what happens with Kym all through. So, Kym is our protagonist and she is bad for her past and better for her future. She is from a rehab of drugs, thus a drug addict, she was the reason for her brother's death and for a few other bad deeds. OK, so how will you judge a character as this. Her, mother acts as the judge at times and though, it's not all right, it's all natural.The beauty of the script itself here is showing us how we behave and how irrational we can be with our own prejudices. Sometimes, we miss the whole point by judging someone too early.Now, before I may squeeze out a few important terms, let me tell you one thing, don't expect a climax, don't expect a beginning, don't expect big background score and not the proper cinematography either. It's all done un-cinematically and yet done very wonderfully. Camera is hand held, and the noise is natural and mostly live recording and even songs like "Unknown Legend" (one of my favs) is sung naturally. Now, I like this kind of cinema that shows us that what we need more than a camera, the technology and those gorgeously made up actors is a script, a story that is worth telling and if told in a way natural as this, it may be mostly be liked, if not for the normal commercial movie goers but for a niche audience who are looking for a different kind of cinema. Though, I believe that this has been considered a great work in independent cinema and has it's own place there.I liked the costumes, the whole wedding that takes place in an Indian style, we have Anne Hathway in a saree and that is great to see. Now, the whole cast did a great job in acting and Anne Hathway stood out in her performance as Kym. Wish, she garnered more awards.All in all, it's a cinema for those who love cinema and a 4/5 for a movie that you like only if you have patience to sit through the whole wedding of not yours but someone else, who is unrelated to you.

Hard to believe that it's been five years since Jonathan Demme's last full-length fiction film, now available for streaming on Amazon Prime. This time around, we were struck by how powerful and affecting the ensemble scenes are—the rehearsal dinner, the ceremony itself, even the much-maligned dishwasher-loading contest. These sequences feel like a kind of virtual reality in which we're not just emotionally engaged as spectators but almost physically present as participants. They were so effective, in fact, that the scenes that took place in less crowded rooms and explored the conflict between the sisters—serene bride-to-be Rachel and shattered, attention-hungry Kym—started to seem like a distraction, even though the script was just about perfect (also hard to believe this was Jenny Lumet's first produced screenplay) and the performances could hardly have been better. Ever since "Something Wild," Demme's been crazy for world music and multiculture, and in "Rachel…" every time you look around, somebody's plucking on an oud or sawing out a modal tune on a fiddle. Loved it! (Also loved the scene where Anna Deavere Smith tells them to knock it off.) Didn't mind the twitchy, crazed-wedding-videographer-in-everyone's-face camera-work. Clearly the dancing and festivating goes on for quite a while (though be honest now, what's a wedding reception without a samba troupe and break dancing?); maybe JD felt we had to experience a bit of celebratory burnout before the subdued, melancholy tone of the final scenes. The boho excesses of Rachel's family and the overstuffed production may give snarks and quibblers a lot to complain about, but all in all "Rachel…" is a brilliant, soulful film that should give you as much pleasure to remember as it does to experience.