Jonathan Demme's latest features a bravura turn from Anne Hathaway as Kym, the sister of the film's bride. Newly released from her latest stint in detox, Kym has returned home just in time for her elder sister's wedding. But there's a reason why her family regards her with all the caution usually reserved for a ticking explosive device or a live rattler. Kym has a reputation for self-destructive behaviour and on this most fraught of nuptial weekends, it appears to be well earned...
Rachel Getting Married's biggest revelation is Ms. Anne Hathaway. With her ragged bob and doe eyes, not to mention a tongue like a razor, she brings a fierce intelligence to this portrait of a young woman struggling with her own demons.
"Jonathan Demme’s best film in years is at once a companion piece and a corrective to
Margot at the Wedding, with which it shares a basic premise: the return of a prodigal daughter to the familial fold on the occasion of a backyard wedding. Noah Baumbach’s acrid anti-comedy mocked the union at its center and reveled in its characters’ crippling dysfunction;
Rachel at the Wedding, scripted by Sidney Lumet’s daughter Jenny and featuring cameos by many of Demme’s old collaborators (including a camcorder-wielding Roger Corman!) lavishes extended affections on its titular nuptials. And it gives each of its emotionally wounded principals--the most spectacularly bruised being Anne Hathaway’s attention-seeking ex-junkie/sister-of-the-bride--a fair shake. This unsentimental yet supremely generous movie is probably best summed up in the lyrics of the song sung by wedding guest Robyn Hitchcock (quite possibly playing himself): 'I’m up to my neck in love.'”--Adam Nayman,
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