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Personal Velocity

Three portraits.

2002 · 1h 26m · R Drama
Directed by Rebecca Miller

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Overview

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

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69%
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Fresh

This beautifully realized film retains the essential qualities of short fiction: precision, compactness, a focus on epiphanic moments.

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Fresh

These are complex characters.

Steven Rosen, Denver Post
Fresh

It accumulates small details that gradually create a feeling of narrative intimacy.

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Fresh

Three exquisite boutique films whose impact is much larger than many movies five times their size.

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh

If the movie is finally stuck halfway been cinema and prose, Miller proves that it's not an unfertile place to linger.

David Edelstein, Slate

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