Originally Posted by kid-glove
Yes! This is a very un-Demme film and I liked it nevertheless. As you said, they wanted to show the wedding, the procession of it. Reminded me of Dogme films like "Festen" and "after the wedding". Shot by same DP of "Monsoon wedding", no coincidence because there are some overlapping themes. Hathaway acted well as Kym. Her part was to play the ugly duckling of the family, the drug addict on rehab, and haunted by past guilt. The father and mother(who have split after that incident?) are both at polar opposites to Kym. Her sister, Rachel is to get married to man of her dreams, but she is extremely worried for Kym. There is a combined feel of compassion, remorsefulness, and fear towards Kym. The fear is that Kym would mess it up as Rachel was set up for her marriage. Her biggest problem in upbringing was to put up with Kym's f-ed up life (and how it broke her parents marriage and also loss of something I wouldn't mention just yet), and her father and rest of family being focussed and ultimately keen on Kym than on Rachel. All these emotions were brought out well by my man Demme. 8-)