A movie starring
Christina Ricci as a blonde, precocious '
bad girl'.
Unless I've miscounted, this is the second film in which she's played someone called '
DeeDee'. Scary.
Last year, as part of an attempt to watch
every movie in which Christina has acted, I rented it on
DVD. Thus I had the opportunity to watch it with the directors'
voiceover, which proved interesting.
Some (very
paraphrased/from memory) choice quotes from the directors:
- "She's beautiful right there" - "Oh yeah."
- (On Lisa Kudrow's travelling clothes) "This was our attempt to create the, uh, schoolteacher-on-holiday look. I'm pretty proud of that."
- "I think this is the first movie really that has a gay relationship in it but doesn't dwell on that - I think people can get over that now because it's a common enough theme."
- "What we wanted to do was create a heroine who is genuinely difficult to like - a bad person. Lead characters are always people like you, you can empathize with them; we wanted someone totally unlike that."
In the end, though, I didn't see as much
originality or
novelty as the directors seemed to intend - Ricci's role seems like her usual character-style, and ultimately the whole thing is pretty
conformist.
Having said that, it's enjoyable, and Ricci's character's
badass attitude is very cool - especially in her narration.
Plus, as an added bonus, if you've ever wondered who the heck
Lyle Lovett is (I did), well, you get to see him in this film :)
/me realises worriedly that this is almost a movie review - help!