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Lost And Delirious | Year: 2001 Classification: Drama Directed: - Léa Pool Actors/Actresses: - Graham Greene - Piper Perabo - Jessica Paré A beautiful film, but does not quite meet its ambition I'm surprised to see all the enthusiastic reviews for this movie, as I found it both beautiful and disappointing. All three leads are excellent, and the love between Tori and Pauli is palatable and convincing. The story has enormous possibilities: lost love and a friendship triangle in the setting of a girl's boarding school. But on a number of points it fails to deliver. The first is our narrator. Mouse's monologues, a combination of naval gazing naivete and self-pity, slow the movie to a crawl everytime she appears on screen. We are supposed to see the lovers through her eyes, but Mouse is such a wan icicle that her presence simply creates an emotional distance between the love story and the audience. I could not help feeling that the story would have been more interesting told through from the perspective of one of the lovers themselves. The second is the turn in the plot where Tori and Pauli's relationship is discovered, a plot twist better suited to a 1960s setting than the year 2000. Tori's reaction and subsequent actions are hard to swallow (if she was so concerned, why did she make out with Pauli on their roof for anyone to see, anyway?). Pauli's denial that the two are gay also seems dated. (You can't help but wonder what bubble these girls have been living in, to have missed the last 30 years of gay liberation. Frankly, girls elite schools have been hotbeds of out, politically active, teenage lesbians for the last 10 years, at least.) The end is similarly disappointing, hinting that adopted children are so emotionally fragile, one bad relationship will send them to the other edge of sanity. The positives for this film are the strong performances by the two female leads and some beautiful love scenes. Probably worth seeing for those two factors alone. Lost and Delirious Lost and Delirious is a haunting and very impressive film. Mischa Barton does an excellent job as the new girl sent to live at an all girl's college. She quickly becomes close friends with her two roommates, Pauline and Tory, who are also lovers. The imagery and cinematography in this film are done brilliantly, some of the best I've ever seen. Great story outstandingly told as well. The acting is occasionally a bit overdramatic, but still quite superb. The ending is a little predictable, but I think most people (the smart ones anyway) would find this film to be quite evocative and most excellent nonetheless... And they would definitely be right :). Based on the book The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. NOT a "lesbian" flick This is NOT a "lesbian" movie. I keep seeing this movie listed as a "lesbian" movie--as though it's only for a lesbian audience. It's not. It's an amazing piece of art about that deals with universal themes of love, acceptance, betrayal (of the self and of others), friendship, loyalty, honesty, peer pressure, emotional dependance, parenting, prejudice and more. Mainly, it's about the damage done by labels, as lead Paulie says to Mouse, "I'm not a girl in love with a girl, I'm Paulie in love with Tory." So don't label, watch. And don't think this movie won't move you if you aren't gay. It will. I'd say it's one of the most quietly powerful movies I've ever watched. Buy Lost And Delirious at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Lost And Delirious Search with the Priority Search Engine on Lost And Delirious This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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