A scene from the movie Yellow.
The most famous Nick Cassavetes movie is The Notebook (2004), and the best may be She's So Lovely (1997), written by his late father John Cassavetes. This is not those films. Wildly unromantic and committed to the bizarre, Yellow takes a drugged-up single mom and substitute teacher (Heather Wahlquist) on trips through the past. She's not alone: Having invented fantasy worlds to keep herself company, she becomes unable to control the hallucinations. Cassavetes could also use some restraint.He couldn't have picked incest or madness or addiction or familial guilt as the theme? He had to have all four? It's visually disjointed, too. But humour and care keep the story moving, as do his inventive actors, including Melanie Griffith, Sienna Miller, Lucy Punch, Ray Liotta and Gena Rowlands.
Sunday, September 16, 3:00 pm Scotiabank