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Article: Personal Velocity: Directed by Rebecca Miller
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- Philadelphia Weekly
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- December 4, 2002
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Kyra Sedgwick gliding across the screen in her blue jeans is a testament to the power of a woman's walk--the swing of her hips, the shapely outline of her butt. An anonymous admiring male narrates: "Delia could stop traffic with that ass."
But maybe it's not the power of her perfect posterior that stops a car in its tracks--or should, anyway. Maybe simple human fierceness is what stops anyone from barring her way. In Personal Velocity, Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk involve us in stories about cultivating that kind of fierceness, about winning back the confidence you never knew you had.
Adapted from director Rebecca Miller's compilation of short stories of the same name, ...