Peter Weir’s Fearless one of the year’s most satisfying films

Fearless *% *& %& x (Warner Bros.) Rated Mature (at the Vancouver Cen-
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* PLANE crash, dealing with mortality, shattered rela-
tionships — sounds like a swell couple of hours,
right? Well, actually it is. While tough and heart-

breaking at times, it’s also blissful and affirmative.

Acrippled flight between San
Francisco and Houston crash-lands
in a cornfield and survivors are led

_ to safety by Max Klein (eff
Bridges), a former white-knuckle
flyer.

He even carries a baby from the
wreckage, searching among the
injured until he locates the infant's
mother. -

Then he calmly hails a taxi to

- visit an old friend he hasn’t seen in
» two decades.

Somehow, he found ecstatic
fearlessness in what he thought
were his last moments.

_ Now he challenges God to mow
him down, walking blindly into
. traffic, eating strawberries to
-- which he's deathly allergic and
generally dancing on the edge of
the volcano.

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Of course, this recklessness is
not so endearing to his wife Laura

* (Isabella Rossellini) and she’s even

less enamored of his cool detach-

ment to her and their children.

A post-traumatic stress
psychiatrist John Turturro) decides
Max can help another survivor,

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Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez), deal
with her son’s death in the crash.

It would have been so easy to
have gone wrong oi this one. Two
walking wounded help each other,
syrupy music, blah-blah-blah.

But director Peter Wier and
writer Rafael Yglesias never milk
the material for a sentimental tear.

The characters are flawed end
tich in contrast. The expected
romances never take the
Hollywood route.

Have no fear. With the terrific
acting and Maurice Jarre’s lush
score, Fearless ranks as one of the
year’s most emotionally satisfying
films.

An Angel at My Table * * * 4%
(New Line Video/Image Laserdisc)
Rated Mature

Jane Campion recently wowed
Cannes with her latest film, The
Piano. But the New Zealand direc-
tor revealed her talents from her
first film, Sweetie.

Her second film, made-for-
Down-Under TV, is even more
dazzling in the depth she achieves
in chronicling the life of New

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Janet Frame.

Childhood poverty is painful
enough to overcome, but throw in
two siblings drowning, being
misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic,
spending eight years in an asylum
and receiving 200 shock treat-
ments and you can see that to
Janet Frame writing was more like
a life preserver than a career.

Luckily, publishers instantly
recognized her talent and gave her
a future as well.

But despite her success, she | Te-
mained pathologicaliy shy. The
wenderlust that lead her to explore

foreign countries might have been |

to escape fram her fears.

Told in a superbly photographed
episodic style, An Angel at My
Table remains fluid and free of the
usual writer-crumpling-paper-in-
frustration cliches.

The solitude a writer faces to
create has never been better cap-
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