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Andrew Coffin
Winter Park Movie Examiner
Yellow
Rating:StarStarStarStarStar
Anyone going into Yellow expecting something like The Notebook, director Nick Cassavetes' most famous effort, will no doubt be disappointed and quite possibly horrified. It is nothing like his earlier work, though it hues closest to his film Alpha Dog. It is more akin to the work of his late father John Cassavetes. This is a love it or hate it kind of movie; it is crude, hallucinatory, extremely creative, and both deeply disturbing and deeply funny, sometimes in the very same scene.
Heather Wahlquist (who also co-wrote the script with her husband Cassavetes) stars as Mary, a substitute teacher at a Los Angeles elementary school. She seems to love her job and the kids she teaches. It quickly becomes evident that something is awry, and not just because of her sessions with a psychologist (David Morse) that hint at a sociopathic nature. She clearly has problems with both drugs and promiscuity. Her days are peppered with elaborate fantasies, as when the other teachers break into a operatic number while in the lounge, and a confrontation with the principal turns into a stage play, complete with proscenium and audience, in which Mary can't remember her lines. For reasons that I dare not spoil, she heads home to Oklahoma and her dysfunctional family, including her clueless mother (Melanie Griffith) and actively hostile grandmother (Gena Rowlands).
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