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Anne Hathaway gives a powerful performance in ’Rachel Getting Married’

Samuel Johnson famously remarked that a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet, in their tumultuous and moving Rachel Getting Married, suggest that this saying applies to a first marriage, too, when the bride or groom is the product of a shattered family.

Of course, Rachel Buchman’s doting father, Paul ( Bill Irwin), and his second wife, Carol (Baltimore native Anna Deavere Smith), wish great happiness for the bride-to-be (Rosemarie DeWitt). On the eve of her marriage to Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), they fill their Connecticut home with friends, musicians and musician-friends; after all, Paul is a music industry executive and Sidney a record producer. Working with the peerless cinematographer Declan Quinn (In America, Pride and Glory), Demme directs on his toes, using cameras that follow the action lightly and freely, bringing out the vivid "in the moment" quality of Lumet’s bristling script. The movie sets off vibrations as encompassing, delicate and sure as the tones of the omnipresent violinist Zafer Tawil. [Baltimore Sun]

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