The Weight of Water (2000)

Directed by

Kathryn Bigelow

Genre

drama film, crime film, mystery film

Country

France, United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 192 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newspaper photographer investigates a 19th century double murder on an island. As she uncovers details of the crime, she finds her own relationships starting to mirror the events of the past.

tensebroodingmelancholicnonlinearunsettlingslow-burnatmosphericintrospective

What happens

The Weight of Water is a 2000 psychological thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Vinessa Shaw, Katrin Cartlidge, Ciarán Hinds, and Sarah Polley. Based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel of the same name, it follows a newspaper photographer who, while researching the murders of two Norwegian immigrants that occurred in the Isles of Shoals in 1873, finds her own life paralleling that of a witness to the crime. The film is told in a nonlinear narrative fashion, contrasting the contemporary events with the semi-fictionalized historical events. A co-production between the United States and France, The Weight of Water was filmed in late 1999 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival before screening at several other film festivals, though it was not released in the United States until November 1, 2002, by Lionsgate Films. It was a box-office bomb, grossing $321,279 against a $16 million budget, and received largely unfavorable reviews from film critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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