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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
HIGH ART (R) As Lucy, a depressed, heroin-snorting lesbian photographer who has let the air hiss out of her life, Ally Sheedy acts with a defiant new force and desperation. Lucy is reawakened by Syd (Radha Mitchell), a doe-like assistant editor who offers her the chance to revitalize her career. To Syd's shock, she ends up as the erotic core of Lucy's photographs. Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko shows a dramatic grasp of the ways that romantic sexual yearning can mingle with ambition and addiction. She gets a fantastic performance out of Patricia Clarkson, who plays Lucy's longtime Eurotrash lover as if she were the depraved junkie twin of Marlene Dietrich. A-
Posted Jun 26, 1998
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