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Reviews
The Governess (1998)
Jewish girl assumes WASP identity and everyone wants to sleep with her
Sandra Goldbacher had good intentions with this film. It seems like she wanted to contrast the two different worlds of Rosina/Mary and explore the conflict between them. She got a bit side-tracked with the unbelievable love story. Also, her characters lack dimension - they do things that aren't explained. "the Governess" did include some pretty photography, but it would have been nice if a good script with developed, motivated characters and adequate dialogue had accompanied it. Maybe if the dialogue hadn't been so sparse, the characters would have seemed more developed and the film wouldn't have been so dull. There is a limit to how many times I can watch Minnie pose for the camera before I start to fall asleep.
Buffalo '66 (1998)
it's a love story
I've heard the complaints that its "too artsy and "a vanity piece for Vincent Gallo", but some people complain too much. I loved the way that Gallo explored the medium of film and I wish that more film-makers would be as creative as him. "Buffalo 66" was beautiful to look at and the characters were really entertaining ( esp. Angelica Huston ).The ending was definitely one of the best that I've seen. In fact, I don't think I've seen an ending that powerful since "Taxi Driver".