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Hideous Kinky

starring: Kate Winslet, Bella Riza, Saïd Taghmaoui, Carrie Mullan, Pierre Clémenti
directed by: Gillies MacKinnon

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767833899
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767833899
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 27427
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 1999



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Amazon.com:
Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film-script places Julia centre-stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as 'the annihilation of the ego.'

Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky, and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the color and cacophony of the marketplace to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation. --Harriet Smith



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - In my Top Three all time favorites.
There is not much I can say about this movie that hasn't been said beautifully by others. I saw this ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "The Truth Is A Man Standing Upright In The Sun" ~ Duties And Passing Pleasures On The Road To Annihilation
Synopsis: Set in the year 1972 in Marrakech, Morocco we find twenty-five year old British hippie Julia ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Mothers on a journey often abandon their children
Kate Winslet stars as a single English mother of two who takes them to Morocco with her on her spiritual ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Hideously Good
Kate Winslet is a very good actress, there is no doubt about it. She is one of few actors who gives a very ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - QUIRKY AND ENGAGING FILM...
This is a wonderful film with stellar performances by the entire cast. It is about a young woman's quest for ... Read More

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