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Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky, and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the color and cacophony of the marketplace to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation. --Harriet Smith
| ACTORS: | Kate Winslet, Bella Riza |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Gillies MacKinnon |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 26 April, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396037403 |
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Customer Reviews of Hideous Kinky
Beautiful locations, gorgeous lighting, lovely sets, but.... Where's the story? That's the question I kept asking myself watching this visually stunning, but flawed movie.
To be fair, I guess, there IS a story. A young British mother drags her two young daughters to Morroco in search of spiritual enlightenment. That's pretty much the movie. She meets a local, rugged, Morrocan male... He likes her kids. They have no money. They travel around. Her eldest daughter wants to be normal and disagrees with the Mom's bohemian ways.
There is good acting and I liked the relationships between Kate Winslet, ... and her eldest daughter. Also there are a lot of little, sweet, scenes with the characters and their surroundings. But in the end I didn't really care for Kate's character or the choices she made. I didn't "take the journey" with her for her quest for enlightenment.
But the movie is VERY visual stunning. It was a treat just to watch it. The colors, the production design, the shots. Visual fantastic. I just wish they'd taken a little more time creating an engaging story around all this beauty.
B-
A 70s hippy movie, set in Marrakesh
Marrakesh was a famous hippy destination during those amazing hippy hears. Gillies MacKinnon, the director of Hideous Kinky, spent time here and documented the probably-at-least-partially-true story of an innocent middle-class young London woman with two daughters who goes off the deep end. Kate Winslet plays the lead role in a story narrated from the point of view of one of the girls. While their mummy goes about her business of drifting around looking for love and enlightenment, the girls shift mostly for themselves. One of the girls seems entirely willing to go along for the bumpy ride, but Lucy, the sensible one, craves tea-time, regular meals, school uniforms, and a reliable mother. Mostly set in the colorful and exotic local of central Marrakesh, Hideous Kinky is a feast of images, sound, and color - and a good depiction of the ethos of those oh so confusing years.
Beautiful and Intriguing
Julia (Kate Winslet) is a mother in search of enlightenment and religious discovery (Sufism) -- with her two lovely daugthers, she journeys to exotic Morocco to find what she is searching for. This movie is very well directed, and the performances of Winslet, Said Taghmaoui (Bilal), Bella Rizza (Bea), and Carrie Mullan (Lucy), are extraordinary. For some, Julia will seem to be the worst of the self-absorbed, selfish, deluded, irresponsible mothers of all time. But, as a single mother myself, I truly felt a kinship with her in wanting to give her children a sense of adventure. For all of the characters, adventure is a great teacher bestowing extravagant gifts memorable enough to last a lifetime.