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LANTANA

By Bruce Fretts | Jun 11, 2002

Like an Australian version of an Altman film, director Ray Lawrence's mesmerizing drama examines the overlapping lives of a cross section of middle-aged characters. On the surface, Lantana works as an exquisitely twisty mystery, a la Gosford Park, in which a philandering police detective (an Oscar-caliber performance from LaPaglia, for once not masking his Aussie accent) investigates the disappearance of his wife's shrink (Hershey). On a deeper level, the movie offers a gratifyingly sophisticated meditation on the vagaries of modern marriage.

Originally posted May 17, 2002 Published in issue #654 May 17, 2002 Order article reprints
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