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ShareArthur Miller’s granddaughter has written and directed some unique female-centered stories (Personal Velocity and the underrated The Ballad of Jack and Rose), so hopefully the excellent Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder can elevate her newest film to another level, because the lifeless trailer makes it look like Lifetime-bound snooze-fest.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee dir. Rebecca Miller (trailer)
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22 Mar 2010
This feminist character study – in which we peel back the accumulated layers of silencing male coercive authority that have gathered like a veil around the 'secret' life, or lives, within – could have been thrilling.
18 Dec 2009
Clumsy moments in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee are at least partially offset by some nuanced performances.
25 Mar 2005
They inhabit an ideal world, located, a title helpfully informs you, on an isolated island off the Eastern Coast of the United States, 1986. They coo and cuddle, he coughs ominously, and they seem momentarily content, absorbed in one another. And then comes trouble.
6 Dec 2002
Each section lingers just a little, as if the characters will have trajectories beyond the minutes you see them.
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