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| Julianne Moore & Maria Mercedes Coroy |
But one like we've never seen. Captors and captives are held up in an elegant mansion to which fresh food is delivered daily. They even sit down together for a sumptuous dinner party. We hear that the gunmen are not murderers. They're rebels, part of the resistance to a fascist regime in South America whose only demand is the release of political prisoners.
And so it follows, as the unbelievable follows wishful thinking, that captors and captives fall in love, enjoy soccer games and musical evenings with celebrated opera star Roxanne Coss (Julianne Moore channeling the voice of Renee Fleming).
Music is only one of the universal languages in this film, based on a bestseller by Ann Patchett. It's all very utopian, a bit of a fairy tale. And fairy tales have their place on the big screen. In the end this is one worthy of the Brothers Grimm.
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Wonder why it took so long to make a movie of this?
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