
Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Violence lurks just below the surface. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moving to Newark, visiting a cousin, working as a manicurist, realizing that she wants to have a baby, and ... (Full plot summary below)
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Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Violence lurks just below the surface. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moving to Newark, visiting a cousin, working as a manicurist, realizing that she wants to have a baby, and going out a couple of times with a cabby. But Cain finds her and insists on payment, so she returns to Manhattan. The cabby wants to help: can Claire leave prostitution and find happiness in motherhood?
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf a movie like this had a neat ending, the ending would be a lie. We do not want answers, but questions and observations. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanLess awful than inert, Claire Dolan comes across as a willfully bad movie. |
| User ReviewTyler JWho is she? Claire? Lucy? Mother? Whore? Temptress? Caregiver? Daughter? Slave? The thing is, we know. We learn. We see. The problem is, she can't make anyone else see. And the one she needs to see is the one who cannot believe. And the one who penetrates the veil is the one to whom she needs to avail herself. |
| User ReviewKeith vLove Lodge Kerrigan, love the ambiguity, and the unsettling ending. |
| User ReviewJason MA terrific film that deserves to be seen. |
| User ReviewGabriel KAnother brilliant character study from Kerrigan. He demonstrates a surprising amount of maturity for what is only his second film. The writing is assured in that, it is what is NOT said, that keeps us intrigued. The lack of feeling permeates each scene. Bresson is a huge inlfuence. Visual storytelling at its most precise and detached. Katrin Cartlidge gives us one of the finest performances of the decade. Thankfully, her final images on screen are heartwarming and moving. It's the strength of Lodge's first two films that helped give him international acclaim. It's not surprising that shortly thereafter Soderbergh would be giving him a call... |
| User ReviewChris CIn spite of Cartlidge's impressive performance in the lead, the film devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells. |
| User ReviewThomas Hit's not that it was a poorly-made movie - quite the opposite, in fact. it's just that it is such a dire and - to borrow a well-used phrase from the scholar who provided the audio introduction on the dvd - severe film, utterly devoid of any joy, any humor, any redeeming characteristics, that i found it impossible to enjoy regardless of the obvious craftsmanship in the writing, directing and acting. |
| User ReviewBill MI am a robot. I am sad my mother has died. Watch me do nothing about it for half the movie. Watch Sam fall asleep before Vincent D'Onofrio can even make an appearance. |