Movie Review #108

"Rachel Getting Married" is a dramatic tale of a girl in drug rehab who comes home for a weekend for her sister's wedding and soon havoc ensues. Moments of dysfunctional family interactions are interspersed with wedding scenes over the weekend. The director used a handheld camera and made the movie with a very real-life feel, where all the actors never knew if they would be in a scene or not. On the plus side, this was an interesting piece of filmmaking. On the negative side, there were quite a few points where you felt you were a bored guest at someone else's wedding (especially near the end, when all the family secrets were out). 20 minutes edited out of this film would have helped the pacing a lot. Also strange was the fact that the family and friends were a mixed-raced artistic bunch doing their own weird wedding traditions which wasn't any point of contention. I just couldn't understand why a white woman and black man marrying would decided to wear saris and have Indian food. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 85%.