Holy Smoke

Australia 1999, 114 minutes
Dir. Jane Campion
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Drama / Girl-centric

Aroview: An adventurous attempt to fuse psychological thriller, broad caricature and Eastern spirituality has guru-besotted Kate Winslet being lured from India by her loopy Australian family then handed over to cult-deprogrammer Harvey Keitel. Closest to SWEETIE out of Campion's other films, this has a similarly strong visual component that loosely binds the material, however most will find the subject-matter's potential unfulfilled, with its tone of 'serious' self-satire going largely awry.

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4 stars (Very Good) Ruth discovers guru enlightenment in India, much to her distinctly down-to-earth family's horror who believe she's brainwashed. Tricked into returning home, a hired clueless deprogammer 'PJ' awaits. Funny, brutal, and quite seductive. ~GenXGirl
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2 stars (Good Try) The screenplay doesn't quite work but the proceedings could never be boring with the two leads. ~Tubbs