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WEDNESDAY MAY 29 1991 THE MIAMI HERALD 5D Truly Madly Deeply: a subtle little gem of a film By RYAN MURPHY MOVIE REVIEW romantic fable together Her character's zeal hope and devastation are beautifully at times magically rendered the grave Truly Madly Deeply touches and soars Like its ghostly leading man the film's impact and melancholy caress lingers long after its final refrain A sort of Love Story from beyond witchcraft at the theater door If obeyed the command yields a treasure trove of emotional riches Despite its grim subject matter letting go of dead dreams and deceased loved ones and the fact that its leading man is a stiff Truly Madly Deeply is life-affirming its true-to-life dilemmas to be savored and learned from Truly Madly Deeply is an actor's showcase and Minghella's direction gives the leading players room to explore their characters while reigning them back into focus when they meander too far down memory lane The men in Nina's life Rickman Bill Paterson and Michael Maloney are all superb but it is Stevenson who holds this "Uh-huh" says the shrink sure that Nina has gone quite insane But insane Nina is not Jamie is all around her: She can smell him feel his embrace "I'm so angry at him for leaving me!" she rages to the doctor (Stevenson is stunning here) Jamie it seems feels her pain in the other world and is so moved that he shows up in Nina's living room his heart still warm yet his lips cold "Thank you for missing me" he says Director-writer Anthony Mingh-ella's spooky valentine to love could easily be compared to Ghost but it's far better Like that film Truly Madly Deeply asks that you suspend disbelief in ghosts goblins and "One of the year's most stimulating surprises an outrageously original and utterly captivating romp' -Michael Medved SNEAK PREVIEWS 'Beetlejuice' A trippy comedy!" -leif Cnnj 60 SECOND PREVIEW Herald Staff Writer Truly Madly Deeply is such a subtle little gem of a film possessed of a razor-sharp wit and more swashbuckling charm than Douglas Fairbanks that the only flaw worth mentioning is the honking-drip-ping-blowing noise that seems to accompany each screening The cacophony isn't the work of music supervisor Barrington Phel-oung whose rich classical score is first-rate Rather the accompaniment is provided by the audience whose collective sniffling and sobbing only serves to intensify the film's powerful wallop Intimate and at times craftily claustrophobic the movie is set in a small ydreary London flat and centers on three characters It deals with some of the most powerful aspects of the human condition: love abandonment fear ecstasy rejuvenation Truly Madly Deeply is a passionate beautiful and haunting piece of work with literate characters a provocative storyline and a tour de TRULY MADLY DEEPLY (R) Cast: Juliet Stevenson Alan Rickman Bill Paterson Michael Maloney Writer and Director: Anthony Mingh-ella Music: Barrington Pheloung Editor John Stothart Production Designer: Barbara Gos-nold Photography: Remi Adefarasin Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Co In Dade: Cocowalk force performance by Juliet Stevenson perhaps the greatest English import since Julie Christie The film opens with Stevenson as a language instructor named Nina telling her psychiatrist a hard-to-be-lieve tale: Her lover Jamie (Alan Rickman) has recently died almost destroying her as well but she has heard him speaking to her Walk in the middle of the road when you're afraid at night he has commanded Make sure you lock the back door out Fon justice cm 1:20 3:30 5:40 7:50 10fO 1:30 3:40 5:50 8:00 10:10 STONE COLD (TO 2:10 4:106:10 8:1010:10 ONE GOOD COP (R) 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30 9:40 DROP DEAD FREDJPG13) 1:20 3:20 6:20 7:209:20 MANNEQUIN ON THE MOVE (PG) 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:109:10 DANCES WITH WOLVES (PG13) 1:00 4:30 8:00 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (R) 2:00 4 30 7 00 9 30 No blockbusters at box office IFU-Hi-Sg IIILX3LlETliHB) meimcraOTUiiiiiArornH new line cinemaI AMERICAN NINJA (R) 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (R) 1:15 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 FX II (PG13) 1:00 3:15 5:25 8:0610:15 TOY SOLDIERS W) 1:153:45 5:55 8:10 10:20 BACK DRAFT fR) 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 ONLY THE LONELY (PG13) 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30 9:40 DROP DEAD FRED (PG13) 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 TRUTH OR DARE (TO 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 MORTAL THOUGHTS (R) 1:10 3:20 5:30 7:40 9:50 NEW JACK CITY (P) 2:00 4:00 5:55 8:00 10:00 A KISS BEFORE DYING (R) 1:45 3:45 5:45 7:45 9:45 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS fR) 2:15 4:45 7:15 9:45 NOW BAitFRv'rFNTnFT CUTLER RIDGE KENDAlTtOWM IXr! 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