Réalisation:
Jocelyn MoorhouseScénario:
Jane AndersonPhotographie:
Janusz KaminskiMusique:
Thomas NewmanActeurs·trices:
Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard, Kate Capshaw, Adam Baldwin, Dermot Mulroney, Maya Angelou, Lois Smith (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Winona Ryder incarne Finn, une étudiante de Berkeley qui passe ses vacances d'été à écrire sa thèse et à réfléchir à une demande en mariage. Pour cela, elle séjourne chez sa grand-mère et sa grand-tante (Ellen Burstyn et Anne Bancroft). Les histoires d'amours passées et de coeurs brisés sont révélées par les membres du club de patchwork de sa grand-mère. Mais les choses se compliquent encore plus lorsque Finn rencontre le séduisant Léon... (Universal Pictures FR)
(plus)Critiques (2)
This is an excellent feminist film of the 1990s. Where are the times when the main characters were active lovers, students, and daughters? Winona became an icon of the youth and every emancipated young woman wished to have her face. In this story, she plays 26-year-old Finn, who is taking the summer off from her boyfriend to finish her thesis. Meanwhile, she learns the life stories of the most important women in her family and at the end of it all, she becomes part of a new quilt. There is a special nostalgia associated not only with generational stories nicely layered throughout the century. Nowadays, the electric typewriter and tapes with which our college girl is surrounded are also nostalgic. Beyond that, her summer affair is so palpably sexy that I would have no issues embracing the screen.
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At first glance it looks like a very feminine film, and it is very feminine - after all the main characters are women, but on the other hand, for example Winona's point of view deals with problems that even a man can have. The uncertainty of what one actually expects. I liked the musings. But the clear answer at the end? Not so much.
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