A profoundly stupid film that fails on every level. Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel do their best to hold together a work of blinding awfulness, but ultimately fail. A complete waste of their talent. Jane Campion badly directs an abomination of a script that wasn't so much written as cobbled together with her sister. Is it meant to be a comedy? Because it fails on that level. Is it meant to be a warm human drama with life lessons? Because it does worse than fail there. Is it meant to be sexy? Because it absolutely is not! Don't waste your time, energy or money. I would stop there, but IMDb insists that I write ten lines. Goodness knows why. I've written everything that I could write. I suppose I could say that the picture stays in focus throughout most of it. And I could say that there are one or two decent pieces of music (although there are also some stinkers).
Review of Holy Smoke
