Genre: Comedy
Plot: Perry Henzell released The Harder They Come in 1972. It quickly became a classic, playing for months in European and American cinemas and introducing a global audience to reggae music. Thirty years in the making, No Place Like Home is his follow-up.The Harder They Come saw Jimmy Cliff's character migrating from the country to big, bad Kingston. Henzell's new film reverses that move, sending a sophisticated New Yorker to rural Jamaica. Susan (Susan O'Meara) is a producer of commercials shooting a shampoo ad against a backdrop of spectacular beaches and waterfalls. But as the shoot runs into problems, her golden-haired star (P.J. Soles) flees the set. Susan and her local fixer (Carl Bradshaw) set off in pursuit. Henzell shot the film in the seventies but ran into production problems when the film's negative went missing. Since rediscovering the footage in a New York film lab, Henzell has been refining it. As a result, the plot works like the melody in a dub reggae remix, open to impressionistic riffs and political counter-rhythms. This is a far more formally daring film than The Harder They Come, the product of a lifetime spent considering Jamaica's place in the world. With the breezy grace of a lifelong philosopher, Henzell makes his points about globalization, political
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Amy Heckerling
Clueless, Look Who's Talking, Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
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| Matthew Stone
Intolerable Cruelty, Life, Destiny Turns on the Radio |
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