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Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she has experienced. Leaving behind his own wife Madlyn (Nancy Ferrara) and his young son, Eddie explains the impetus of his latest project in a series of behind-the-scenes interviews. Meanwhile, Sarah
Nov 19, 1993 Wide
Jul 26, 2005
MGM Home Entertainment
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One of [Ferrara's] most rewardingly challenging works.
...an uncommonly interminable experience.
This twisted little trainwreck is amazing for the fact that it was ever even made.
Two minutes in and Harvey Keitel's sweaty, heaving, naked body is on display. Yes, it's another Abel Ferrara picture...
More dreadful than dangerous.
Dreary drivel from Madonna's "arty" phase
Had everything going for it, but then never really went anywhere.
Among the movie's triumphs is that Madonna actually wakes up and gives a solid, believable performance.
I understood the premise of this film (about a filmmaker trying to get more and more out of his actors while fighting his own personal demons) but the movie was too dark, both mentally and production-wise. Madonna actually puts together a halfway-decent performance, as does method-acting extraordinaire Keitel. Not the
January 10, 2011Super Reviewer
A different type of film, it just didn't pull me in like I expected.
January 5, 2008Super Reviewer
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