Nine Lives (***)

Rodrigo García’s film is essentially nine short films, each with a woman’s name as a title, although a few characters appear in two of the segments. (For example, in one segment, Robin Wright Penn meets an old boyfriend, now married, in the grocery. He appears with his wife in another segment.) Many of the actors—Holly Hunter, Sissy Spacek, Joe Montegna—are familiar faces. A couple of the stories, like the one with Hunter, are funny. The last, with Glenn Close and Dakota Fanning as mother and daughter, is the most touching. None was dull.

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circulated via email 11/3/05 and posted 10/18/13
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