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by Robert Nesti EDGE National Arts & Entertainment Editor From its title Rachel Gets Married sounds like the kind of mass-market comedy that might star, say, Jennifer Aniston or Sandra Bullock as an ambitious urban professional who returns to her home town and finds love with her cute redneck high school boyfriend. Wait a minute, wasn’t that made already with Reese Witherspoon? But Jonathan Demme’s newest film is something completely different: a domestic drama that’s sometimes leisurely and warm, sometimes contentious; but imbued with intelligence and realism as it probes the dynamic of a deeply wounded family. The realistic style comes from Demme adopting the style of Dogme 95, the school of European filmmaking made famous by directors that uses rigid criteria in telling the story: no arbitrary music, no artificial... [read full story]
