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Article: The Stone Angel
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- July 9, 2008
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The Stone Angel
Directed by Kari Skogland
Vivendi Entertainment
Opens July 11, Sunshine Cinema and AMC Empire 25
A stubbornly affecting drama that's far stronger in its quieter moments, writer-director Kari Skogland's adaptation of the late Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence's 1964 novel would have benefited from a tougher, steely-eyed approach. On the eve of being shipped to a nursing home, irascible, ailing octogenarian Hagar Shipley (Ellen Burstyn) runs out on her adult son (Dylan Baker) and escapes into her past, seen through flashbacks as her younger self (Christine Home) experiences love, betrayal, heartbreak, and every other emotion one could expect to encounter in the CliffsNotes ...