Feelings You Can See - Things You Can Tell
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Feelings You Can See - Things You Can Tell |
| Original title | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rodrigo García |
| script | Rodrigo García |
| production | Jon Avnet , Lisa Lindstrom , Marsha Oglesby , Elie Samaha , Andrew Stevens |
| music | Ed Shearmur |
| camera | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| cut | Amy E. Duddleston |
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Feelings that you see - Things You Can Tell (original title: Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her , Alternative title: feelings that you see ) is an American anthology film from the year 2000 . It was directed by Rodrigo García , who also wrote the script .
action
The action takes place in Los Angeles . Dr. Elaine Keener is dumped by her boyfriend. The fortune teller Christine Taylor is supposed to predict the future for her.
The bank manager Rebecca talks to a homeless woman who makes it clear to her how erotic she could appear as a boss to the male subordinates. She starts a relationship with her colleague Walter, although she is pregnant by another married man.
When Rebecca discusses a possible abortion with her doctor, the doctor warns that it could be the last chance for 39-year-old Rebecca to have a child. Rebecca speaks to the child's father, who accepts the abortion. She terminates the pregnancy, the procedure is carried out by Dr. Keener performed. Rebecca cries afterwards.
The writer and single mother Rose helps Albert, who recently started living in the neighborhood. She falls in love with the short man. When he puts a plant in front of her door, she goes with another plant to reciprocate. Through the open door she sees the half-naked Albert as he sleeps. Albert opens his eyes and looks at Rose, Rose flees and returns home.
Christine Taylor is in a lesbian relationship with Lilly, who has AIDS . Lilly once asks her friend before going to sleep that Christine tell how the women got to know each other.
The blind Carol Faber lives with her sister Kathy, a policewoman. She teaches Walter's blind daughter. One day she makes an appointment with Walter and spends a night with him. When Carol later goes to Walter's daughter, she meets him in the elevator, but Walter doesn't say a word. Carol recognizes him by the smell, his daughter later says that her father would drop women "like hot potatoes".
Kathy investigates the death of her school friend, who gave birth to a child who died one day later. The autopsy suggests a suicide by taking sleeping pills. Carol hears about it and invents a sad love story as the possible background to suicide.
In the last scene, Elaine Keener is sitting alone in a bar. Walter sits down next to her and speaks to her.
Reviews
Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the film producers had not been able to decide for a long time how to market the film. He would about female sadness ( sadness ) and the emotional rootlessness ( emotional dislocation tell).
The film was described as a quiet film on www.cineclub.de . The performances of the actors, especially those of Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart and Holly Hunter, were praised.
Awards
Rodrigo García was at the International Film Festival of Cannes in 2000 with the Prix Un Certain Regard award. Holly Hunter was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001.
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Web links
- Feelings that one sees in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Feelings that you see at Rotten Tomatoes (English)