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Holy Smoke!

Description

Kate Winslet (TITANIC, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY) and Harvey Keitel (U-571, PULP FICTION) add scintillating performances to a seductive, darkly hilarious motion picture that's met with overwhelming critical acclaim! While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barroin (Winslet) falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters (Keitel), a macho cult deprogrammer, who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent, and iron-willed Ruth! Another memorable motion picture directed by Academy Award(R)-winner Jane Campion -- you'll feel an undeniable comic charge from the sparks that fly as PJ and Ruth face off in an electric battle of the sexes.

Aussie director Jane Campion's one of a kind. Forget money and fame; she's inspired by the pleasure of sharing her cinematic dreams with friends and film audiences. Her globetrotting heroines (Angel at My Table, The Piano, Portrait of a Lady) may be willful, crazed, self-absorbed, wrong--but who can resist joining these passionate women on their voyages of self-discovery, whether they lead to safe harbor or dead end?

Holy Smoke opens deliriously in a magical India, saturated with light, color, sensuality. Celebrated by Neil Diamond's anthem, "Holly Holy," Ruth Baron (Kate Winslet, delivering a breathtakingly luminous performance) explores a world that encourages spiritual epiphany--and falls hard for the cartoonish guru who opens her "third eye." Back home in Australia, her hilariously dysfunctional, distinctly down-to-earth family hires hotshot deprogrammer PJ Waters (Harvey Keitel, his dyed hair and cowboy boots telegraphing desperate machismo) to cure Ruth. In an isolated Outback shack, Campion's duo wrestle each other for control of their souls--and bodies, too. This duel's in deadly earnest: Ruth assaults Waters's petrified masculinity; PJ aims to strip this radiant girl of her unexamined faith.

Their wild ride--funny, brutal, erotic--toward brand-new selfhood is punctuated by indelible images: Ruth dancing in a white sari beside an emu corral; naked in the night, Ruth offering her lush body to her tormentor; lost in the desert, cross-dressed in red gown, PJ "saved" by a golden vision of Ruth as a magnificent Indian goddess. For those who love the way movies can sometimes project truth and beauty, Holy Smoke is a feast for the eyes--and for the mind. --Kathleen Murphy

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-11
Summary: "A Journey of Discovery"

"Holy Smoke"

A Journey of Discovery

Amos Lassen

Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet), while on a journey of discovery in India, falls under the spell of a religious guru and her parents were so worried that they hired PJ Waters (Harvey Keitel), a cult de-programmer who finds her in a desert hideaway. Ruth is now known as Naznee refuses to be de-programmed but eventually recants and goes home to her mother to Australia where she decorates her room with pictures of Bhagwan Shri Shiv and others and discovers that she has been brought home to be brainwashed.
Director Jane Campion puts the de-programmer to the test and we get quite a struggle. We look at the question of how much a guru can hold his followers and is that hold sacred or profane? Is he desired as an alpha male or is it because of spirituality? What is his motivation and does he believe that he is actually helping free his clients from mental slavery?
We look basically at two questions: If he is successful, will that just mean that she has transferred her allegiance from the Indian guru to him? Will it mean that his psychological strength is greater than that of the guru in far-off India? Two, in what respect is such a forced confinement with someone who is in physical control going to lead to a variant of the "Stockholm syndrome" experienced by some women held hostage, e.g., flight attendants on hijacked planes, and the famous case of Patty Hearst? Will the captive become enamored of her captor? Campion handles this most interesting theme by focusing on the sexual and carnal nature of the relationships. The test of will between P.J. and Ruth becomes a question of if she seduces him and t strips him of his professionalism, what happens next? This is a candid film about sex and sexuality in a way that emphasizes the power dynamics of sexual relationships. There is some full frontal nudity and the sex scenes are steamy beyond what one usually sees in an R-rated film. Harvey Keitel is excellent in a very demanding role and is entirely convincing this is Kate Winslet's film. She completely takes it over with her beauty, her superior acting skills, her great concentration and her mesmerizing charisma. Campion shows the raw side of humanity though discreet moments of parody that portray with which we live. This is a hugely funny portrait of a hypocritical conservative family's farcical efforts to cling to normality.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-08-07
Summary: "Horrible, but it could have been such a great story"

Kate Winslet is a fantastic actress. The DVDs of "Enigma," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Holiday," "the Reader," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" are on my shelves, and I know that I will be watching them all again and again for years to come. And I know she'll gift us with many great performances in the future. (and I loved Harvey Keitel's performance in "Pulp Fiction" and while "Bad Lieutenant" was grim, it was at least interesting).

But "Holy Smoke!" totally misses the mark. The idea of Kate Winslet being brainwashed by a cult and then getting locked in a house for three days with a deprogrammer with issues of his own could have been such a great story...if only they had played it straight as the utterly serious and tragic subject that something like that happening would be in real life. Instead the movie descends rapidly into weirdness and improbability. I lost patience with the film the night that Keitel's character shows Winslet's a cheesy movie about cults. We're asked to believe that on viewing just a few minutes of this single film, Winslet's entire faith in her religious leader is shattered. Somehow, I think it takes a lot more to break the faith of someone caught up in the clutches of a cult.

But it got even worse after that. How worse? Well, right after Keitel destroys her faith with a single film, she's apparently so distraught that she burns her clothing and he finds her naked outside of the remote house they're staying in. She kisses him and tells him she doesn't feel loved. That's not so hard to believe if we accept she'd really have a crisis of faith at that point. Keitel's character resists her and walks away...so far so good. But what apparently changes his mind is when --I'm not making this up-- she pisses herself. I don't have a clue as to what that was supposed to mean since the movie was a "serious" project and not some piece of twisted fetish erotica (maybe it emphasized how completely vulnerable she was but blech!) And that apparently does the trick, she and Keitel make the two-backed beast and let me say, it ain't dreamily erotic like Winslet's seduction of David Cross is in "the Reader"...just coarse and unpleasant. After that, it descends into even more weirdness until the deal is sealed with a wildly improbable happy ending.

The only thing I can think of when I consider this movie is "Wow, Kate Winslet really, really, REALLY wanted to avoid being typecast as a standard Hollywood star after her role in the monster-hit "Titanic" (a movie that I hated because of the terrible script)...and there's no movie too strange for Harvey Keitel.

The movie's only redeeming features is that Kate Winslet looks lovely then as she doesn now (and curvy unlike so many anorexic "super models") and does a convincing Australian accent. Oh, and the scenery in Australia where the film was shot is beautiful, but that's hardly worth subjecting yourself to this film.

I can only hope that when Kate Winslet, who I adore, recalls this film, she winces and her next project will either be a worthy "serious film" like "the Reader," a joyful romp like "the Holiday," or even better something like the gem "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-03-01
Summary: "Fired Up"

When Shakti is given (through the gurus touch) the energy in the body for a moment comes alive. For the uninitiated that is a awakening that can make you follow a guru. In India theses gurus have found the way to Shakti. Do not underestimated this feeling, the movement of energy is startling. Shakti is what happened to Kate Winslet character. The counterpart doesn't exist in the west.
When Harvey Keitel loses it with Kate because he is dealing with his own ignorance: he is not in touch with his own energy(soul)than all falls apart. The conclusion is the search goes on for the truth. The movie and acting captures this lost and confused time.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-02-18
Summary: "Good Accents. Good Nudity. Good Way To Lose Two Hours You'll Never See Again"

Girl goes to India and joins a cult.
Result: family wigs out.
And then: girl is tricked home and sent to a de-programmer.
Which brings about: the two enjoy a semi-complex relationship that travels through rejection and sex and conquest.
And ultimately: ...

Wow, I almost drifted into spoiler country, didn't I?

Truthfully there isn't a lot to spoil, and my la-dee-da summary up there is my own sub-comment on the painfully linear presentation of Holy Smoke's stick figure plot. With this cast and director maybe I expected too much but what I'm here to report is that ultimately I found Holy Smoke to be flat as the featureless Outback terrain in which so much of it was shot. It did hold my attention through to the end, so that's something, but even for the purposes of a short review trying to describe what happened in the movie is a challenge. I suspect most people have heard of this film in connection to its plethora of full frontal nude scenes and in all honesty that was its major claim to fame.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-12-06
Summary: "Art-House Cinema Gone Horribly Wrong"

One of worst films associated with director Jane Campion, actors Harvey Keitel and Kate Winslet, or anyone else. "Holy Smoke!" (1999) is self-indulgent claptrap with no laughs or sociological insight. Considering the amount of talent involved, the results are excruciatingly bad. Winslet tries, but Keitel is embarrassing to watch. El stinko!