Starring: Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare and Mischa Barton
Review Rating: KA7 (Kicks Ass to the 7th Power)
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This Canadian movie made me cry several times, not just because it's
Canadian. Although it's superficially a first love-coming of age story
between two teenagers in an all-girls school (hey now?), Lost And Delirious
digs deeper to reveal our suffocating Soul in a world paralyzed by fear and
narrowness. What really moved me was the presence and vulnerability of
Perabo and Pare', who's characters go wandering through the acutely painful
and ecstatic labyrinth known as human form, picking all kinds of
ouch-berries
on the path of learning. It can't be easy delivering abandon, fragility,
wonder, and ineffable ache without over-acting it, but Perabo, Pare', and
Barton keep it understated in all the right places. Watching these
unfolding
women drill their interiors and exteriors infused me with that ole'
I-just-swallowed-a-radioactive-tornado-feeling, that
'I-ate-a-toxic-neon-butterfly vibe, that
'Angels-just-gang-raped-me-in-Disney-World glow. I'm not gonna lie to you,
all three of the women in Lost And Delirious are hot, and two of them are
charismatic. But is that enough? I mean hey Meatloaf, sometimes Two Out Of
Three IS bad. Remember Vanilla Sky? Cruz and Diaz were physically appealing
and charismatic, but that movie sucked so hard it started blowing. Lost And
Delirious is nothing like Vanilla sky, in that its SCIENTOLOGY- FREE. You
know what I love in a film? NO SCIENTOLOGY. (Oh, hi Tom Cruz, what? You
wanna stop accruing Karma and pimping spiritual Amway? Wha? You wanna do
humanity a loving favor and snuff the scientology? Wow, that's great,
here's
a pistachio.)

Lost and Delirious is great for a damp, cool day, or any time in the first
2/3rds of winter (suicide season) cuz this ain't just another summer fling
baby, it's the enchanting and perilous maze of losing self in another.

Bummer: Plot takes a while to cohere.

Soundtrack: KA6. We get to hear Violent Femmes twice ("Why can't I get
just one fuck?")

Visual Stuff: A bit stark, but it serves the film more and more as the
story
unfolds. Color scheme is earth-tones, many nice shots in silhouette, most
interiors are hard surfaces, and apparently they shot this in the part of
Canada where the sun never shines.