Beloved (1998)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
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Beloved (1998) gave us a heart-tugging, Oprah-flavored take on indentured servitude.
Yet neither filmmaker explores the deep abandonment of ego that Jonathan Demme and Toni Morrison boldly dramatized in Beloved , when a woman says, “Put your finger inside me and call my name.”
That's not just a description of him politically (although it's hard to imagine another white director so interested in the problems of Haiti, or so at ease directing "Beloved").
Then you went all Steven Spielberg on us with “Beloved,” presumably drunk on the Oprah-fed Toni Morrison Kool-Aid.
Perhaps after squandering his Oscar and Indie cred on such slight efforts as Beloved, The Truth About Charlie, and The Manchurian Candidate (the last two unnecessary remakes), he decided to rediscover his cinematic muse.
That's the basis for the film, written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, who is best known as a scriptwriter - he wrote The Fisher King and the adaptations for The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer and Beloved.
Instead of sliding into pitfalls of predictability, writer Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, Beloved ), who also directs, relies on straight, unforced dialogue delivered by a fine cast.