| Rachel Getting Married |
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| Written by Francis H. Powell | |||
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 Anyone who has been embroiled in high family tensions, or drama will surely relate to this film. The ambience is dark and there is a strong ever tightening friction throughout the film. Guilt, accusations, sibling rivalry, pain and anger spill out, during the build up to a marriage, supposedly “the best day of a woman’s life” as the cliché goes.
The centre point of all this, is Kym, Rachel’s sister (Anne Hathaway) who gives an irrepressible poignant performance. She is screaming out for love, compassion, understanding and forgiveness and all of this pours out in the context of a wedding, when people’s minds are centred on other matters. Sometimes you cringe at some of her rants, but they are heartfelt and real. There is a strong sense of love but also a high dose of antagonism, between Kym and her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) who is marrying Sidney, a cheerful soul, who I imagine could not of anticipated how things would pan out, once Kym leaves rehab to join the wedding posse.
Some of the wedding posse includes some well observed oddball characters, a strange melange of people. Flitting into this dark story is Kym’s mother played by Debra Winger, a renowned actress, who has seemingly been off cinema screens for a while, but gives an assured performance. The story is spun out in a documentary style, filmed with hand held cameras. This film resonates, so much
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