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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:32
Rotten:41
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Superb performances hindered by weak script and incoherent story.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to... [More]
Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Sophie Lee, Tim Robertson
Director: Jane Campion
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Despite the good performances and Campion's visual reach, her characters are too specific/eccentric to transcend their storyline and make us feel that there's something to be absorbed from the P.J.-Ruth imbroglio.
Top CriticHoly Smoke does journey all over the map in a variety of tones and styles, but Campion is a master director and keeps this under control.
But I didn't like "Piano" either.
Aimless and unfocused.
Top CriticJane Campion va en franco descenso en cuanto a calidad y coherencia cinematográfica se refiere
To call Winslet’s performance voluptuous makes a nice double entendre to be sure, but it captures the passion and emotional power she invests in the role.
A tightly wound, heady affair that actually comes to seem more deranged as it progresses.
Holy Smoke is one of those movies that takes some potentially fascinating ideas and shipwrecks them by poor execution and even worse writing.
Top CriticIt's a movie you enjoy, even though you wish it had been better.
Holy Smoke is unusual and it's smart. Well, insofar as we can figure out.
A profoundly generous treatise on how men and women misunderstand and torment one another.
A shattering and intense drama dealing with spirituality and sexual politics.
It is an immense, emotional, engrossing film that nevertheless wears its brilliance casually.
This script -- to be kind -- is uneven at best and completely illogical at its worst.
Top CriticIts pretentiousness, incoherent story, and huge logic holes make a disjointed mess.
It's refreshing to see Winslet follow Titanic's phenomenal commercial success by returning to the edgy roles in smaller films that earned her recognition in the first place.
Although the cinematography by Dion Beebe is beautiful, and most of the performances click, Campion never really gets to the point of what she's trying to say. It's all too vague.
The film isn't really about cults at all, but about the struggle between men and women, and it's a little surprising, although not boring, when it turns from a mystic travelogue into a feminist parable.
Top CriticQuit torturing yourself (and us) already, Ms. Winslet.
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