Love Field

Lauren Hallet, a naive, innocent Dallas housewife, attempts to ease her grief over the assassination of President Kennedy by travelling to his funeral in Washington. Much against her husband's wishes. Making her awkward way through the Deep South, she becomes involved with a black man and his daughter. Over the course of her journey, Lurene learns there is much she didn't know about her country and herself.

COMMENTARY
The shots of November 22, 1963, still ricochets through the American psyche. Over time, the killing of President Kennedy has come to define, in the nation's collective thinking, the difference between its idealized past and the corrupt present. But with its subtle suggestion that the innocence lost in Dallas might itself have been an instrument of oppression, Love Field represents a rather refreshing take on the repercussions of the day no American can forget.
Having directed Jodie Foster in The Accused and Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like
a Wheel, Love Field further cements Jonathan Kaplan' s reputation as a supreme director of actresses. And while the premise of an awareness-raising road movie is hardly unprecedented in American cinema, Kaplan elicits a magnificent performance from Michelle Pfeiffer that consistently keeps the movie out of real danger. In the hands of a lesser actress, Lurene could have become
a dreadful, superficial, feminist cliche, but in addition to the harrowing vulnerability she's already famous for, Pfeiffer adds an almost imperceptible, yet exquisite layer of anger to her performance as a woman who realizes that ignorance - hers or others - only serves the status quo.
In its US. theatrical run, Love Field more or less went down with the ship that was Orion Pictures, and may turn out as little more than a footnote in the perception of Kaplan's and Pfeiffer's career. Regardless of this, both of them are working in the upper end of their artistic register here, making Love Field a movie worth remembering. ':'
Sindre Kartvedt

Medverkande
Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert: Producent
Sulla Hamer: Manus
Dan Roos: Foto
Ralf Bode: Musik
Jerry Goldsmith: Talat språk
English