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INTERSECTION (Jan 1994)
Director: Mark Rydell.
Writers:
Paul
Guimard, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Claude Sautet, David Rayfiel, Marshall Brickman.
Starring: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich,
Martin Landau.
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Gere Up For Double
The Love.
by
Jon Dunmore © 24 Nov 2005.
Whadaya
know: if you're skidding headlong into a death-tastic car accident, and you happen
to be Richard Gere, your life does flash before your eyes - well, your
love life, at least. If you're Richard Gere.
 INTERSECTION is almost a Chick-Flick
version of MEMENTO, as Vincent (Gere) reminiscences back through his life
of juggling his lover (writer Lolita Davidovich), with his ex-wife (business partner
Sharon Stone), adoring daughter, and a successful architectural profession.
The plot hinges on who Vincent will choose as his life's love. Weaved throughout
are scenes of a unique clock (which Vincent bought for his lover), with a ball-bearing
winding mechanism which tilts one way and then the other, metaphorically mirroring
Vincent's indecision.
The body of the movie, consisting of scattered
vignettes, is rife with clues as to which of the two women would be his ultimate
choice: Stone's architectural planner (who, in her most passionate moments with
Vincent, exuded a clinical iciness that he chose not to perceive due to her social
positioning and surface charms), or Lolita's columnist (independent, yet clutching
at Vincent for primacy of attention).
His moment of clarity, alas, comes
too late. But no matter - he's Richard Gere!
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INTERSECTION (Jan 1994)
Director: Mark Rydell.
Writers: Paul
Guimard, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Claude Sautet, David Rayfiel, Marshall Brickman.
Starring: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich,
Martin Landau.
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