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All Over Me by Stephen Farber A sexual awakening is at the heart of All Over Me, directed by Alex Sichel and written by her sister Sylvia. Alison Foland, who played the hapless accomplice to murder in To Die For, gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude, a 15-year-old aspiring musician who's just beginning to come to terms with her sexuality. She's intensely involved with her best friend Ellen (Tara Subkoff), and the film shrewdly perceives that at this particular moment of adolescence, there's no clear dividing line between platonic friendship and sexual attraction. The Sichels are sympathetic to all the characters, with one glaring exception. Ellen's sexist boyfriend is portrayed in one-dimensional, stereotypical terms. The Sichels have a blind spot when it comes to understanding a swaggering heterosexual male, just as macho filmmakers often do when they try to portray women. What did you think of this movie? Sound off in the Movie Forum. |
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