Personal Velocity

This movie is my biggest disappointment of the year. After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival you would expect a masterpiece, but sadly this is nowhere close to a masterpiece. It is still a good movie but not at all what I was expecting. The movie follows three women in three different stories that are connected only by the film. The first story follows Delia (Kyra Sedgewick) as a slut in high school, then as an adult trying to get away from her abusive husband and her old life. The second story follows Greta (Parker Posey) as an up-and-coming editor who has a fidelity problem. The third and final story follows Paula (Fairuza Balk) just driving away from her life and picks up a teenage boy who has been beaten really badly by someone close to him. All three actresses give great performances, especially Posey, and the cinematography is very well done but I just couldn't like these characters, only Balk's Paula had some redeemable qualities. The writing was the biggest disappointment, done by writer-director Rebecca Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller. The film has great cinematography and acting but like the characters as few other great qualities.