When Night Is Falling . Tucson Weekly . 06-20-96

When Night Is Falling

DIRECTED BY: Patricia Rozema

REVIEWED: 06-20-96

This story of forbidden love is sure to mesmerize from start to finish with its visually stunning cinematography and set design. The two hesitant lovers, Camille and Petra, are perpetually swathed in warm rose and gold tones and surrounded by an exotic circus of images contrasted with the wintry blue light of the Canadian winter. It's true: You'd have to be pretty cold-hearted not to feel writer/director Patricia Rozema's sense of tenderness and romance. But the plot is a tease. Though Camille is a theologian at a Christian college, the tension between religion and homosexuality--between private and public, individual and society--are only superficially developed. Nonetheless, the film retains a less-is-more resonance that leaves the mind free to admire all the pretty pictures.

--Mari Wadsworth

Other Films by Patricia Rozema
Mansfield Park

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