24 — Wednesday, April 4, 1990 -

Film

North Shore News

Breaking In will keep you laughing

Breaking In **% (HBO Home Video) Rated M

hen Ernie (Burt Reynolds) breaks into a house,
the last thing he expects to find is another house
breaker. Mike (Casey Siemasko), however, is only
sneaking in to short-sheet the beds. Maybe Ernie needs a
partner or perhaps he’s just lonely. At any rate, he begins to

teach a new dog some old tricks.

And being let in on the tricks of
the trade in director Bill Forsyth‘s
latest film is half the fun. Reynolds
flexes some long unused acting
muscles as the cool, methodical
sufecracker who is also oddly
paternalistic. The good ol’ boy
mugging is gone and in its place is
a thoughtful, well-rounded per-

formance. Siemasko is a likable
innocent in a role that could have

film review

been simply unbelievable. (He
naively thinks his ‘date’ is friend-
ly, not realizing she’s a hooker.)

This is a small film and, like For-
syth’s others (Local Hero, Comfort
and Joy), it shares the same warm,
gentle humor.
Paperhouse *** (Vestron Home
Video) Rated Mature

There's little warmth and
gentleness in Anna’s dream world.
The feverish girl (Charlotte Burke)
draws a house on paper and finds
it has come to life in her vivid
dreams. When she adds a sad-
faced boy in the window, she finds
Marc (Elliot Spears) waiting for her
inside, He can't walk (she forgot to
draw legs), but she forges a close

,Handmaid’s Tale,

relationship with the morose boy.

Aana discovers her doctor is
treating a seriously ill boy named
Marc and that somehow her fan-
tasies are linked with the ebb and
flow of his health. Lurking on the
fringe of her sketch is her distant
father (Ben Cross). Confused by
the adult world, she has turned
him into a blindly raging demon
bent on the children’s destruction.

First-time director Bernard Rose
captures the child’s eye view of
life, grappling with grown-ups,
loneliness, and wild imagination.
Relying on psychological chills,
the film reminds us how alien a
child can feel. FOrget Jason and
Freddy. This is the stuff from
which nightmares are woven.

Le Petit Amour (a.k.a. Kung Fu
Master) *** (Prism Home Video)
Rated Mature

This French film (English subti-
tles) shows how some kids can
haunt adults. Jane Birken stars as a
40-year-old who falls for a charm-
ing boy of 15. She knows her af-
fection might be a misplaced
maternal instinct (a substitute for
the son she never had?2), but she
can’t help herself.

Although it looks sordid on
paper, the boy is hardly fresh from
the cradle. In fact, the only one
who suffers from the affair is the
woman

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