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Hideous Kinky (1999)
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Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film-script places Julia centre-stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as "the annihilation of the ego." Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to...
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Hideous Kinky Movie Review by Zara  (4/6/2007) |
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When I first saw this movie, I was one of the few people to watch it on the big screen. Not released wide, I sat in a small art house theater and wondered why it had been made. I understood at the time that it was based on a book written by one of the children in this plot outline.
When I think about this movie now, as a...
(complete Hideous Kinky review by Zara)
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