Rain (2001)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2
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While on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents' marriage is on the rocks.
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All Critics (66) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (9) | DVD (5)
Treats a potentially explosive set-up with adult reflection and thoughtfulness.
Top CriticFar from the first female coming-of-age movie, but it's one of the most vivid.
Rain is so slight that it almost isn't there, but these performers deftly approximate the sensation of having a craving for someone.
It is, like weather, what it is, neither good nor bad but something that feels as if it has the weight of the inevitable.
Jeffs creates a lush atmosphere of desire and approaching chaos, and delivers a bona fide shocker in the last reel.
Ms. Fulford-Wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky, calculating Lolita turn.
First-time writer-director Christine Jeffs captures the destruction of a family with a blunt accuracy that never precludes a gift for the occasionally lyrical moment.
Fulford-Wierzbicki in particular turns in a performance well beyond her years as Janey.
The film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled. But ... in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances, the film has - ironically - distanced us from the characters.
Before it rains, clouds cover the sky and hint at the coming storm. Jeffs fully captures that feeling of anticipation.
The symbolism may be a little thick at times ... but overall it's a remarkably strong debut that marks Jeffs as a director to watch.
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