Passion of Mind (2000)
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan who dreams equally vividly about Marie. The women look alike. Marie meets William who begins to court her. Marty meets Aaron, an accountant, becomes his friend and then his lover. Both women tell their lovers about their dream life. William is jealous, Aaron is accepting. Even though they've become lovers, Marie won't fall asleep next to William. Marie goes on holiday with William to Paris, and Marty wakes up with an ashtray from the hotel on her night stand. Are they the same person? What will unlock reality?
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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Martha - or Marty - is bound between two worlds, one of which is made of dreams, but she has yet to find out where she really belongs to. What first looks like a boring two-sided love story slowly reveals itself as a shallow but poetic reflection on the particularities of an unusual life and the difficulties embodied in it for both the heroin and its siblings. Difficulties which put her on a journey of questions and facts with the ultimate goal to put and end to it all. Subtile jokes here and there, nothing wrong but nothing deep about this movie, hints too big to be missed only to leave you with little satisfaction of being right when time comes and not worth much discussing with friends after it. Something to watch (and at least not too boring) with your mother, a thing made easier with Demi Moore appearance; A good romance for those mothers to watch with their good sons.
This is a very fine film, one I very nearly missed because of my disdain for Demi Moore. But I was wrong. Director Alain Berliner gives her both the safe space and the restraint that she needs to go beyond herself and produce by far the best performance of her career (of the films I have seen).With a very fine ensemble cast including Willaim Fichtner, Stellan Skårsgard, Joss Ackland, Sinead Cusack and Peter Riegert, this film offers a delicate exploration of questions central to human psychology and the interaction of our inner and outer lives.Beautifully photographed by Eduardo Serra and surprisingly well-written by Hollywood regular Ron Bass and relative neophyte David Field, this film at first appears to be heading for typical "Women's Film" territory, but Berliner and the writers put a wholly original, subtly crafted spin on it that makes it anything but predictable and ordinary.I have a complete review of the film up at my website: www.thenedpages.com - then click on "critical analysis" and pick it off the list of reviews.
PASSION OF MIND (2000) * Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard, William Fichtner, Sinead Cusack,Peter Riegert, Gerry Bamman, Julianne Nicholson. Dreadful romantic fantasy with echoes of Richard Matheson and `Sliding Doors' with Moore as a womanwho suspects she's living two simultaneous lives in a dreamscape. Lugubrious and plodding with a laughable scriptand overtly heartfelt `acting'. Easily the worst film in Moore'scanon. (Dir: Alain Berliner)
POSSIBLE SPOILERS HEREIN.Who are we? What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? This movie deals with some, if not all, of the above questions.The main character portrayed by Demi Moore is classified by medical science as "multiple personality disordered". Yet, from a spiritual/philosophical/mystical/metaphysical/quantum mechanics physics viewpoint, she is classified as multidimensional in existence or inter-dimensional in existence. Spiritual philosophical reference: "In my Father's house there are many mansions".This movie does an excellent job of accurately illustrating the overlap of one or more universes onto and into another or others and/or the overlap of one or more consciousnesses onto and into another or others.The movie is classified as "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches about alternate realities/existences/universes/worlds/dimensions. It is a "truth movie" or "teaching movie"