thieves, thieves, thieves. A passing social drama of the mid-90s, but with a twist.
Once in a jewelry store, two women, one of the upper strata of society and the other of the lower, met for trouble, for both are not clean in hand.
Diana is a rich woman, bored among luxury, receiving little attention from her always busy work and stingy husband (as always glossy Victor Garber), who has two children and a secret room in which she created a museum-storage of all her stuff. Stealing at first sight from boredom, but in fact because of excitement. Julie is a tramp with a bunch of problems, deals with all sorts of odious nonsense, gets into unpleasant and life-threatening alterations. Stealing to survive. The life of these ladies intersects for stealing another sparkle, a philistine with a light in her eyes asks a beggar to teach her the wisdom of a pickpocket technique, to which she shows skills lessons and bends the price unstoppable. Suspicious.
I feel very good about Amy Irving, who knows her from De Palma’s first films, Barbara Streisand’s Yentl_1983 and the scandalous divorce from Steven Spielberg. Here for the actress is a star hour (underestimated to horror): Irving cries, Irving is drunk and naked, watching her flowering in front of the mirror, Irving throws herself into the pool, Irving is handcuffed with sprawling mascara, Irving whips vodka from her throat, Irving pukes on the floor writhing in a dirty toilet, and in the end Irving masturbates with jewelry! A good set for some anti-award. Patsy Kenzit, who plays mainly difficult teenagers, lesbians, drug addicts and criminals, on the contrary, does not bring anything new, beaten by life and scumbags, grovels at fate, as on needles, is angry at life and satisfies masochists with a whip.
Kleptomania usually manifests itself in wealthy people, those who have everything except the acuity of sensations, an adventurous prerogative. Get a stolen box of sweets from the sacred closet, enjoy the taste of sweetness and the savor of the experienced feelings from the trophy, satisfy yourself with stolen jewelry by scoring on the fact that elite guests of the spouse gathered through the wall. Weakness that causes a bouquet of adrenaline. The addiction is incurable. Guided by a new acquaintance in the dirty walls of schushers, Diana will regret her inclinations and look at her life differently, but not for long. After all, drug addicts remain drug addicts, just mentally fighting these demons.
It seems that all the masks were dropped, the grief swept within a meter of an expensive fur coat, the husband finally drew attention to his wife, the third child on the way, but there is a craving stronger than a person. A lot.
10 out of 10