Judy Berlin ( Babylon USA )

Judy Berlin (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Babylon USA
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Eric Mendelsohn

Written By:
Eric Mendelsohn

Actors:
Barbara Barrie ..... Sue Berlin
Bob Dishy ..... Arthur Gold
Edie Falco ..... Judy Berlin
Carlin Glynn ..... Maddie
Aaron Harnick ..... David Gold
Bette Henritze ..... Dolores Engler
Madeline Kahn ..... Alice Gold
Julie Kavner ..... Marie
Anne Meara ..... Bea
Novella Nelson ..... Carol
Peter Appel ..... Mr. V.
Marcia DeBonis ..... Lisa
Glenn Fitzgerald ..... Tour guide
Marcus Giamatti ..... Eddie Dillon
Judy Graubart ..... Ceil

Synopsis:

Mannered, unassuming, and ultimately moving, writer-director Eric Mendelsohn's feature debut imbues a comic, bittersweet American character study with an almost European sense of weight and gravity. For Mendelsohn, the lives of dissatisfied Long Islanders can be downright mystical in their mundaneness -- a theory echoed not only by the dreamlike cinematography of Jeffrey Seckendorf, but also by the characters themselves. Over the course of a lengthy eclipse (subtly rendered through clever lighting tricks), the film reveals the tenuous bonds between its various families, and our hero, David Gold (Aaron Harnick), sheds his initial, off-putting solipsism and embraces his suburban roots. It's the performers who make this transformation so satisfying: Barbara Barrie is the perfect model of an uptight schoolmarm; as her daughter, Edie Falco brings genuine compassion to a role which could have devolved into grotesque parody; and in her final film role, Madeline Kahn lends the proceedings a funny, infectious sense of wonder as David's loopy mom. Much of this territory has been mined by other independent filmmakers -- Hal Hartley, most memorably -- but by finding poetry in the most innocuous of places, Mendelsohn makes the material his own.

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