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Holy Smoke opens deliriously in a magical India, saturated with light, color, sensuality. Celebrated by Neil Diamond's anthem, "Holly Holy," Ruth Baron (Kate Winslet, delivering a breathtakingly luminous performance) explores a world that encourages spiritual epiphany--and falls hard for the cartoonish guru who opens her "third eye." Back home in Australia, her hilariously dysfunctional, distinctly down-to-earth family hires hotshot deprogrammer PJ Waters (Harvey Keitel, his dyed hair and cowboy boots telegraphing desperate machismo) to cure Ruth. In an isolated Outback shack, Campion's duo wrestle each other for control of their souls--and bodies, too. This duel's in deadly earnest: Ruth assaults Waters's petrified masculinity; PJ aims to strip this radiant girl of her unexamined faith.
Their wild ride--funny, brutal, erotic--toward brand-new selfhood is punctuated by indelible images: Ruth dancing in a white sari beside an emu corral; naked in the night, Ruth offering her lush body to her tormentor; lost in the desert, cross-dressed in red gown, PJ "saved" by a golden vision of Ruth as a magnificent Indian goddess. For those who love the way movies can sometimes project truth and beauty, Holy Smoke is a feast for the eyes--and for the mind. --Kathleen Murphy
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent acting performances, but story totally sucks,
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This review is from: NEW Holy Smoke (DVD) (DVD)
I gave this movie 2 stars because of Kate Winslet's and Harvey Keitel's excellent acting - they are 2 very accomplished actors, for sure.Kate is a young woman who joins an ashram in India and her family hire Harvey, an experienced cult deprogrammer, to deprogram her. They spend a few days alone in an isolated cabin and end up getting sexual with eachother. As I said, Kate's and Harvey's acting was great - but I found the messy dysfunctionalness with all the supporting characters and the whole storyline disturbing rather than funny and did NOT want Kate Winslet's character to be deprogrammed because her family was far more hurtful to her than the ashram she was indoctrinated into could be. Another reviewer said "am I a prude?" and I am asking myself the same thing - I found the sexual relationship between Kate and Harvey disturbing and it didn't make sense to me at all. Do people really totally berate eachother, call eachother names, etc. and then have sex and fall in love with eacher? Does that happen in real life? I hope not. Of course this is a movie, not real life. I do think the sex at the end was way over the top and overdone, however. Overall, in my opinion, this movie had excellent acting, but a terrible story line that went all sideways at the end and ended up with no credibility at all. If you enjoy watching intelligent acting, dysfunctional families and kinky sex you may like this movie - but I can only take so much of that type of thing and it was not my cup of tea.
1.0 out of 5 stars
I won't say where the smoke is being blown...,
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This review is from: NEW Holy Smoke (DVD) (DVD)
This film starts out so promising. It could have been a punchy dramatic piece about the nature of belief, and the legitimacy of the concept of free will. Instead, the characters dribble into infantile sexuality, and the film becomes a travelog. I can't believe this film found financing...a real waste of obvious talent. The effect of the ending is to trivialise the opening premise, hence the film winds up being an exercise in meaninglessness with an unpleasant aftertaste.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Off to a great start then ran amok,
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This review is from: NEW Holy Smoke (DVD) (DVD)
Maybe I'm a prude?I thought the idea of a family kidnapping their daughter back from an Ashram in India and having her "deprogrammed" by Harvey Keitel was great and the movie started out great but it really derailed as the sexual relationship between the deprogrammer and deprogrammee developed. I found the last 20 minutes uncomfortable to sit through.
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