THE LINGUINI INCIDENT
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A film review by Brian Rice
Copyright 1992 Brian Rice
The studios apparently did not choose to distribute THE LINGUINI INCIDENT here in flyoverland, so I had the pleasure of seeing it on video last week, some time after its quiet demise in the theaters.
The film starts out as a standard debonair-non-American-must- marry-PDQ-in-order-to-get-green-card flick, and then segues into other equally fatigued ideas. David Bowie looks like he would rather be singing "We are the goon squad and we're coming to town (beep beep)." Rosanna Arquette does not really succeed in inhabiting her character, which may be to her credit. Eszter Balint, my reason for seeing this movie, does indeed manage to make her character credible and engaging; her character also has the most nearly original comic conceit; and she is not particularly well integrated into the main plot. For this reason one gets the feeling she's in the wrong film. Perhaps we'll get to see THE RETURN OF THE SELF-DEFENSE BRA someday.
Gratuitous swipes at feminists, although the cranberry juice was pretty funny.
Notice to directors and cinematographers: showing us a brightly- lit bridge is not enough to convince us that a movie is set in New York.
On a scale of -4 to +4, I'd say -3. On the monetary scale, I'd say that you should definitely rent the video if (a) you think, as I do, that Eszter Balint is totally righteous, or (b) the video store will also wax your car.
-- Brian Rice rice@dg-rtp.dg.com +1 919 248-6328
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