
Connie, an aging Bohemian photographer, meets mousy Harper, headed for Harvard Law from a high-powered San Francisco family, and immediately sees her beauty. He also guesses she has talent and invites her to be his pupil and share his bed. He's Alfred Stieglitz, she's Georgia O'Keefe, and he calls her his Guinevere. When she realizes she's the latest Guinevere in a string of ingenues, she bolts, only to return, sick of her family. She's blossoming, reading, learning, but hasn... (Full plot summary below)
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Connie, an aging Bohemian photographer, meets mousy Harper, headed for Harvard Law from a high-powered San Francisco family, and immediately sees her beauty. He also guesses she has talent and invites her to be his pupil and share his bed. He's Alfred Stieglitz, she's Georgia O'Keefe, and he calls her his Guinevere. When she realizes she's the latest Guinevere in a string of ingenues, she bolts, only to return, sick of her family. She's blossoming, reading, learning, but hasn't yet taken her first photograph when he tells her they're going to L.A., broke, him drinking too much, to sell some photographs. On the trip, she finally snaps the shutter; so does her awe and dependence.
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| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannDisarms with its sincerity and frankness. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyWonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances. |
| Dallas ObserverAndy KleinRea hits just the right balance of sympathy and self-interest. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWe have a right to yawn, but we don't, and Sarah Polley is the reason. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghDeftly mixes rueful sentimentality and trenchant observations about the constantly shifting balance of power that drives relationships. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsPolley, the paraplegic incest victim in Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," gives a mesmerizing central performance. |
| Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisWhile the appeal of Guinevere is decidedly intermittent, it's there, and the acting is right on the money. |
| Salon.comCharles TaylorIt doesn't take Rea long to decide that he's more interested in extending his record for Longest Acting Career Sustained on One Expression, and he's back to his baggy-eyed, hangdog look. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenBogs down during several fuzzily romantic interludes. |