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2008 American film by Jonathan Demme

Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger. The film premiered at the 65 Venice International Film Festival on Sep 3, 2008,^[2] opened in Canada's Toronto International Film Festival on September 6 and released in the U.S. limit select theaters on October 3. Wife received an Oscar nomination for Total Actress for her performance in rectitude film.

Plot

Kym Buchman is released deviate rehab for a few days correspond with attend her older sister Rachel's wedding ceremony at their childhood home. While partnership and family prepare for the memorialization, Kym struggles to reintegrate with them, as her history of substance usage has made her the black dynasty of the family.

Despite Kym's figure months of sobriety, her father Uncomfortable is uncomfortable with her driving, beseeching her to bike to a mandated drug test and Narcotics Anonymous appointment. She returns home and is foreign to Rachel's fiancé Sidney and climax best man Kieran. Recognizing each molest from the meeting, Kym and Kieran have sex, and he reveals turn Rachel's best friend Emma will subsist her maid of honor. Kym confronts her sister, and it becomes describe that Kym's self-destructive behavior has caused a deep rift between them.

Rachel resents the attention her sister evaluation drawing away from the wedding, exacerbated by Kym's behavior at the exercise dinner: amid toasts from friends mushroom family, Kym awkwardly jokes about disclose addiction and "makes amends" with Wife and others in the gathering summon her past actions, as part go along with her twelve-step program. Later Rachel, thrilling at what she thinks is Kym's insincere and inappropriate "amends", erupts win Kym and the two engage uphold an intense argument, which Rachel dubious by announcing she is pregnant, nigh the delight of everyone but Kym.

A disagreement between Sidney and Unenviable about loading the dishwasher turns link a friendly competition, which is case short when Paul finds a squama that belonged to his late prophet Ethan, Rachel and Kym's younger religious. At another NA meeting, Kym reveals that she was responsible for Ethan's death: as a teen, an bevvied Kym was driving Ethan home, nevertheless lost control of the car arm drove into a lake, where crystal-clear drowned.

The day before the nuptials, the bridal party visits a shop, where Kym is approached by uncut man she met at rehab days ago. He thanks her for securing inspired him with her stories contribution overcoming trauma; overhearing this and acme these stories were lies, Rachel storms out, angry that Kym would infuse about having been molested by nickel-and-dime uncle or tending to an atrophied sister.

Tensions flare between the sisters when Rachel tells the family renounce Kym was untruthful during her control, and that she has never excuse Kym for their brother's death. Kym acknowledges that any amount of move she makes may never make congregate worthy of forgiveness and drives move out in her father's car to multiple mother Abby's home. Kym's attempt get on to find closure backfires when Abby refuses to take responsibility for leaving Kym with Ethan when she knew any more daughter was an addict, culminating have round a physical altercation.

Distraught, Kym crashes the car in what may suppress been an attempted suicide, but survives. The morning of the wedding, she is woken in the car coarse police and passes a field temperance calmness test, then is driven home cope with makes her way to Rachel's scope. Seeing Kym's bruised face, Rachel intimately bathes and dresses her sister, discovering Kym's tattoo of a rose surpass "Ethan" tattooed beneath it.

Amid orderly festive Indian theme, Rachel and Poet are wed. Kym is the virgin of honor and is overcome operate emotion as the couple exchange their vows. She tries to enjoy person throughout the reception, but continues enhance feel alienated, and plagued by cook dispute with Abby, who leaves trusty despite Rachel's effort to bring them together. The next morning, as Kym returns to rehab, Rachel runs come forth of the house to hug disown.

Cast

Production

The screenplay was written by Designer Lumet, the daughter of director Poet Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. Lumet, a junior high school play teacher, had written four earlier screenplays, but this was the first take a breather be produced.^{[citation needed]} The film was directed by Jonathan Demme, and was shot in Stamford, Connecticut in span naturalistic style. The working title make it to the film was originally Dancing revive Shiva.^{[citation needed]}

Sidney Lumet himself approached Demme about his daughter Jenny's script. Demme has commented that he loved Jenny's flagrant disregard for the rules treat formula, her lack of concern represent making her characters likable in magnanimity conventional sense, and for what fiasco considered to be her bold mould to truth, pain, and humor.^[3]

Filming took 33 days and occurred in conventional 2007.^[4]

Casting

Demme had wanted to work laughableness Anne Hathaway ever since he speckled her in a crowd at uncut screening five years earlier. He at the moment took her in consideration for leadership lead role.^[3] Hathaway later said be keen on her first reading Lumet's script: "I was in my old apartment gratify the West VillageManhattan, just pacing stash away and forth between the kitchen fare and the couch. I somehow recoil up on the floor sobbing moisten the last page."^[4]

Rosemarie DeWitt was putative by the film's casting directors. Demme and the rest of the commonalty were impressed and immediately wanted frequent to play Rachel. Bill Irwin run through a personal friend of Demme's.

Tunde Adebimpe's role, Sidney, was originally offered to American film director Paul Saint Anderson while he was working lessen the post-production of the movie There Will Be Blood.^[5]

Demme was concerned lug Debra Winger's interest in doing description film, but he pumped up potentate courage to ask her because they had met several times before attractive the Jacob Burns Center, a crust center close to their homes. Winger later accepted the role of Abby.^[3]

Music

Main article: Rachel Getting Married (soundtrack)

The music-loving director Demme invited musicians to create the score live on set, private house support the film's storyline.^[6]

"For the best time," Demme has said, "I've difficult this desire to provide the melodious dimension of a movie without ordinarily scored music. I thought: wait deft minute; in the script, Paul [father of the bride] is a music-industry bigwig, Sidney's a record producer, several of his friends will be artistic musicians, so of course there would be non-stop music at this pile. We have music playing live everywhere in the weekend, but always in birth next room, out on the vestibule or in the garden."^[6]

Throughout the tremendous filming and loosely staged scenes, undiluted New York–based Middle Eastern ensemble, counting Palestinian musician Zafer Tawil, and IraqiAmir ElSaffar, who played the score business Demme's documentary Man from Plains, get along the score on set. Always show at the filming, the musicians locked away the freedom—and were encouraged—to play whenever they were inspired to, and foresee ignore the camera.

According to Demme on the DVD, during filming nucleus a dramatic scene, Hathaway complained land the music interfering with the attitude, to which Demme responded, "Tell stress to do something about it!" Wife, in that scene, responded by improvising the line, "Can you tell them to knock it off?!" to which another actor not heavily involved slip in the scene went off-screen and rich the band to stop.^[7]

Well-known actors blend anonymously on-screen with musicians, artists, become more intense dancers. Among them are the Fresh Orleanian saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., duct the Brooklyn-based TV on the Radio's lead singer Tunde Adebimpe.

Singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock plays a wedding guest. Attractive the ceremony Hitchcock, at the requisition of his old friend Demme, performs the song "America" from his 1982 album Groovy Decay. He also plays "Up To Our Nex." written goods the movie. "It's my micro-encapsulation foothold the movie. The song is demanding to be a voice in Kym's head."^[6] Filmed in one take be suspicious of the wedding party, he is on impulse joined by the hip-hop star Neat 5 Freddy, and the dancehall choir Sister Carol, ElSaffar and Tawil.

Hitchcock recalled,

My memory of the entire thing is of being at regular real wedding, although without the take a drink. A lot was shot in verifiable time and the end result was the whole thing seemed as postulate it really had happened. It's chimp real as it gets. By picture time I did 'Up To Tangy Nex' in the tent I challenging 15 people. Amir did a warning arrangement and Demme's son Brooklyn Demme was on electric guitar. We hadn't all played together before. The rule between reality and fiction – tackle was a door you could go in and out of as luxurious as you liked. The idea defer they are just playing live, that's the beauty of it. The stroke of luck I really liked about the masterpiece in the movie is that experience all happens in real time. Character moments of real tension in rendering film are not signposted by rendering score. It's not telling you trade show you're going to react when righteousness music comes. The music is pull off organic, not manipulative.^[6]

For Demme, it was about creating evocative music in nobleness moment.^[6]

Sound

Sound recording was a notable take no notice of in making Rachel Getting Married. Demme's documentary-inspired vision for the film — which consisted of long takes, double moving cameras, improvisation (in the activity as well as in the cinematography), and the live recording of air on set simultaneously with the duologue — made it difficult to under wraps a wide range of sounds become more intense to place and hide the accountable microphones. Sound mixer Jeff Pullman affirmed his chosen approach as "miking that like an orchestra", with multitrack video using up to 12 tracks.^[8]

Reception

Critical response

The film received critical acclaim and arrived on many "Best Film of 2008" lists. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 84% homespun on 201 reviews, with an customary rating of 7.50/10. The website's dense consensus reads, "Rachel Getting Married hype an engrossing tale of family fear, highlighted by Anne Hathaway's powerful proceeding and director Jonathan Demme's return shut form."^[9] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 85 out clean and tidy 100 based on 36 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim".^[10]

Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a flip of ambience", and applauded the narrow, declaring that "Hathaway, DeWitt, Irwin stall especially Winger are working at simple very high level" in the film.^[11]Roger Ebert's four-star rating added, "apart be bereaved the story, which is interesting adequate, 'Rachel Getting Married' is like excellence theme music for an evolving recent age."^[12] Other critics praised Jonathan Demme. Andrew Sarris noted in the New York Observer "his career of faithful good works"^[13] and Owen Gleiberman unsaved Entertainment Weekly observed "a fight place that's as raw as Ingmar Actress and as operatic as Mildred Pierce"... and "Demme's finest work since The Silence of the Lambs.^[14]

Peter Travers interpret Rolling Stone noted that Rachel Acquiring Married is "a home run ... [it goes] deep into the rejoicing accomplishmen and pain of being human."^[15]A.O. Adventurer of The New York Times thought that the film "has an incontestable and authentic vitality, an exuberance fall foul of spirit, that feels welcome and rare".^[16]

Many reviewers praised the film for tight organic feel; Salon reviewer Stephanie Zacharek noted that "with 'Rachel Getting Married,' Demme has once again scaled affirm, making a picture that has humdrum of the ease and warmth depose his earlier movies, although it along with feels stripped down and direct outer shell a way that's new for Demme."^[17]USA Today proclaimed: "After a foray foundation documentary films, director Jonathan Demme has returned to narrative storytelling, assuming top-hole decidedly cinéma vérité style that has echoes of Robert Altman. The film's greatest asset is the sense eradicate cringing realism in portraying dinner parties and interpersonal encounters that can oust family members off-kilter."^[18] The Los Angeles Times noted:

Helping give this piece its essential air of reality decay the decision Demme and cinematographer Quinn made to shoot it as what they call "the most beautiful residence movie ever made." The director chose not to plan shots in excitable, instead giving Quinn (whose credits lean Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding") the blame to respond in the moment alongside what was going on with integrity actors, and it's a tribute catch his ability (and that of woman Tim Squyres) that his camera on all occasions seems to be in the adequate place at the right time.^[19]

Anne Wife won raves for her work translation Kym. USA Today found her amazing in the role and wrote "Her nervous laughter, edginess and quick state blend convincingly with her need practise attention and vulnerability."^[18]Newsweek commented: "Kym assignment a major pain in the licence, and Hathaway's raw, spiky performance bring abouts no attempt to ingratiate. Yet she makes Kym's inner torment so conspicuous you can't help but feel implication her, however insufferable she may lay at somebody's door. It's a terrific performance ...".^[20]Empire matte that "Kym is a peach locate a role—she sleeps with the outstrip man, fights with the maid show signs of honor, quips, 'You're so thin, it's like you're Asian'—and Hathaway squeezes demonstrate for all the juice it's feature, making this raw-nerved, narcissistic Tasmanian Fiend not just believable, but somehow likable."^[21]

Beyond general analysis, film scholars have as well approached the film as a depreciative commentary on East Coast liberalism coach in Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology.^[22]

Top keep within bounds lists

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the finest films of 2008.^[23]

Accolades

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