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Picking up the pieces of the Twin Peaks puzzle

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With
Me x x (Alliance) Rated R

IME ONCE again to
return to the par-
| ticularly haunting
Washington state town that
Bob, the psycho-spirit from
another dimension, calls
home.

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FILM REVIEW

“if you followed the cult TY
series (and who didn’t — at feast
for tie first year), you know that
fresh-faced; young Laura Palmer
{Shery! Lee}, like all the Twin
Peaksians, carried a dark secret.

+ That secret was more or less
revealed by Special Agent Dafe
Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) after

- her plastic-wrapped corpse wash-
ed up on shore. Now, director

David Lynch shows us the wee
priortoherdemise. = _ -

Unfortunately, there’s no point.
tf you ever cared whe killed Laura

Patmer, you know the murderer’s
identity.

You saw Cooper's dogged in-
vestigation uncover Laura’s sordid
- past as a promiscuous junkie, tur-
‘ning tricks in a brothel just over

the Canadian border. And the
movie doesn't exactly fiesh out her
character (in fact, she made a bet-
ter corpse).

Fans hoping to see all of the
show’s characters are doomed to
be disappointed. Peggy Lipton has
along shot, sexy Audrey is missing
completely and Laura’s triend,
Donna, is played by a different ac-
tress.

The show's key focus, Special
Agent Dale Cooper, only has a few
scenes — largely irrelevant. Even a
cameo by David Bowie looks like
a favor to the director.

It seems David Lynch still can’t
figure out what to do with his
twisted soap opera. Huge chunks
temain cryptic, with surreal dream
sequences and obscure clues.

He’s added a little gore and
some gratuitous nudity to the quo-
tient, but it’s still the samme oddball
mixture of boredom and disturb-
ing imagery ... except on TV it was
free,

Enchanted April * & * ¥2
(Miramax) Rated G (at the Park
& Tiiford, Roya! Centre and
Park cinemas)

Ah, springtime in London.
Rain-drenched streets. Steamy,
cramped streetcars, Add a couple
of burned-out marriages and it’s
time for escape.

A month in a Mediterranean
villa sounds like Eden to slight ac-
quaintances Lottie Wilkins (Josie
Lawrence) and Rose Arbuthnot
(Miranda Richardson).

And since the £60 rent was a
hefty amount for these 1920’s
middle-class women, they adver-
tise to two older females in search
of wisteria to share the expenses.

But it’s off to a supremely un-

Fest to screen impolite

‘IMPOLITE, the. 1992 New Views

winner produced by West .Van-.

couver's Raymond Massey, is one
‘of 23 new films to be highlighted
at the Canadian. images series at
the eleventh annual Vancouver In-
ternational Film Festival, “Oct. 2-
18. aa .
- ‘It is ane of six B.C.-made
features to be invited to the series.

_2 Hop

Richard Martin's North of Pitts-
burgh, which was filmed in North
Vancouver, has also been invited

‘to screen,

Directed by David Hauka, /m-

polite had its world premiere last .

week at Torcnto’s Festival of Fes-
tivals and has been invited to the
Independent Film Festival in New
York.

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promising start. Lottie and Rose
arrive late and, although on Italian
soil, they are drenched in ail-too-
familiar rain (‘But it’s Italian
raint’’).

just as the sun pierces the clouds
the next day, they meet their
fellow vacationers. Stiffly man-
nered Mrs. Fisher (Joan Plowright)
buries herself in memories of dead
authors, while Lady Caroline
Dester (Polly Walker) is a vampish
independent, weary of all the at-
tention men tavish upon her.

Oniy Lottie, with her unerring
intuition, has good feelings about
this April in Italy. So much so that
she wants to share it with her
husband, Mellersh (Alfred Molina)
— although he was the main
reason she wanted to leave.

1 agree that it sounds pretty sap-
py, but it isn’t. Fabulous scenery,
funny and terrific performances
and a fanguid pace make én-
chanted Apzil a perfect vacation
from all the tiresome
“blockbusters” Hollywood is of-
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