I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fantastic!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Film Review: "Rachel Getting Married" (2008)Director Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) gives into documentary-composed cinematography in this film about the character of Kym, portrayed in break-out fashion and chain-smoking on the plain actress Anne Hathaway, who gives in to every beat to be the black sheep in the herd of a family celebrating the older sister's wedding, title-given character of Rachel, performed by decent appearing actress Rosemarie DeWitt, which stays uneventful through a screenplay originally written by Jenny Lumet, who finds one major tension point for the audience, watching the character of Kym's distress in witnessing honor speeches in a tight stuffed of invited wedding guests before releasing her pressure through sex with a stranger, degrading her sister in public and crashing a car, which may keep the audience going up to 85 Minutes due to a demanding performance by Anne Hathaway, but not for the whole 100 minutes plus running time on this one, where the director of a motion picture classic as "The Silence Of The Lambs" (1991) and even the fairly suspenseful remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004) can not hide the fact that "Rachel Getting Married" has turned out a disappointment in every cinematic sense of the way.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Seeing the reviews for this movie I was hoping to see a movie of European style where you can feel the depth through the story which some will consider as -nothing happens through the whole film.And-as I have expected-it was just that.Front story pictures Kym as younger, rebel/addict sister who makes a great contrast next to elder sister Rachel miss "doing everything right in life". Their relationship is portraying a question of why does the little messed up sister has all the love and attention of their father, and can this struggle between sisters finally be settled in a few days around a big event such as Rachel's wedding.I can easily say that performances were on a same level by Anne Hathaway as for Rosemarie DeWitt. It really hits the point between younger-older sister relationship. The two characters are very different but despite that, sisterhood connection is still strong and in the end that is all that matters and can lead you through all the past painful memories.Secondary, story about divorced parents with new partners and next to it, how the two families meet for the first time preparing for a big event is carrying the red line next to the sisterhood story just perfect through the movie. And of course we cant get pass the sisters father outstanding performance by Bill Irwin.altogether; 8/10

Rachel Getting Married is supposed to be a story about a girl's challenge in dealing with the fact her family is moving on with their individual lives while she has to deal with sobriety after getting out of rehab. This happens just as her sister Rachel is getting married. Hence the title. This may have been an acting tour De force for a young Anne Hathaway but unfortunately it was with a poorly cooked script that has zero character development and does nothing to make us like the characters in it. Screen writing 101 tells that you must have the characters do or show something that makes us like them so we can get behind them and cheer for them as they grow throughout the story. If you miss this very important step, you have an audience that is disconnected and does not care about the characters. If the audience does not care, why are you making the movie?Jonathan Demme obviously had a ton of favours to repay when he cast this nag as each scene is filled to overflowing with actors, and non-actors who are delivering lines that do nothing to move the story forward. The Wedding Rehearsal Dinner scene is painful to endure as actor after actor gets up to deliver another inane monologue that is useless. Demme repaid everyone of these non-actors with a part in this film to the detriment of the movie and at the expense of the audience. He also let the scenes run waaaaaaay too long and seemed to not know when to get out of each one. This is a huge mistake and something you expect from much less experienced directors.

10. Director Demme shot this as if for TV, with an emphasis on close-ups that reveal way more than necessary of Bill Irwin's thinning hair and Anne Hathaway's gums. Close-ups are used as exclamation points on the big screen, which makes this movie all exclamation points. 9. Adding injury to insult, Demme also unwisely used a hand-held camera, which left me vaguely sea-sick, and failed to create what he was apparently aiming for-- a documentary feel. Documentaries have to be about reality; nothing in this movie feels real or honest.8. No subtlety. If there's a core problem, that's it. Everything is spelled out and heavy-handed. Hathaway has bobbed hair that looks like it was chewed off (read: dysfunction). She inexpertly smokes cigarettes (Hollywood's tired way of signaling a troubled or bad character)-- cigarettes which never burn down. No butts for Ms. Hathaway, only long slim white cigarettes as props for her. She is also the only smoker in a film crowded with unnecessary characters. Her character, "Kym," is the center of the movie, and she may be the most relentlessly self-indulgent, self-pitying character since Mildred Pierce's daughter, Veda. Not a character to build a movie on.7. Every single scene, without exception, is too long. The wedding toasts seem endless, as do the AA meetings. Worst: more than 5 minutes devoted to loading a dishwasher-- a contest between groom and future father-in-law. Five minutes. Seriously. I timed it. 6. No one is likable. Rachel comes closest (Rosemary Dewitt), but even she is alternately strident and sentimental-- those are the movie's two notes, and it reels between them without warning. Rachel also suffers for having zero chemistry with her groom, played by Tunde Adebimpe, who is given no distinct character to limn.5. Adebimpe is only one of many black characters who are good-natured, smiling ciphers (see Martin Yu's perceptive review about the cast). The cast is preposterously post-racial, yet presents African- Americans with the same benign attitude that we used to get in minstrel shows.4. The dialog is largely inaudible, and the whole movie depends on speeches. Nothing is advanced visually, except in reaction shots. 3. Horrible nonstop folk/world music. There is one scene with credible jazz combo, but it's not worth waiting for. 2. "I'm pregnant." That line is dropped like a bomb into a scene, allowing everybody to emote yet more, and Veda-- I mean "Kym" to launch into yet another strident, self-pitying attack on her family. 1. It's the kitchen-sink school of drama. Besides unexpected pregnancy, the movie drags in drug addiction, alcoholism, sibling hatred, divorce, anorexia, sexual molestation, and two car accidents, one of which kills a child. The only thing missing is racism, and that would actually have been a breath of honesty in this multi-kulti mess.