It's been 16 years since director Jonathan Demme was nominated for best picture for Silence of the Lambs...an award he also won. This year Demme has release what is perhaps his most beautiful film to date in the form of Rachel Getting Married. The film is so fluid and natural in everything from the camera work to the way the characters speak, after 5 minutes you forget its a movie and become part of the family. All the characters created here by Jenny Lumet(daughter of director Sidney Lumet) in her screenplay are distinct and wholly developed even if they have one line which can often be the situation in family gatherings. Everything is top notch and refuses to become sentimental which is the strength of this movie as it deals with dark family secrets. The true show stealer is Anne Hathaway in the form of Kym, Rachel's just-out-of-rehab sister. Hathaway plays Kym as an unpredictable hurricane of frustration, loneliness, anger, love, and sadness. Kym is dealing with more than we are let on at the beginning and more than the rest of her family can understand even if they know whats going on. Hathaway is truly a revelation in this film as she steps fully and entirely away from her Princess Diaries days as shes been trying to do for years now. Surely this film is one of the true contenders for Best Picture this year and maybe Demme can return to the Kodak Theatre.
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