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Did you have this cast in mind when you conceived the film? Smith-Cameron, my wife, and Anna Paquin very quickly came to sort of dominate my image of Lisa.

Lisa is the reverse: her father is Jewish and her mother is not. I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way. It seemed natural that they would discuss the Iraqi war and all these sorts of things in the kind of history class that they were taking. I try very hard not to hit things on the head. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view then you have to be very clever about disguising it. And in terms of being a dramatist, it turns them from characters into, you know, mouthpieces, and I have always tried to avoid that as scrupulously as possible.

I have lots of opinions that have nothing to do with the movie, and I try to keep them out of it. But the main thing is that if you can say it in a sentence, why spend two and a half, three hours putting it into a film or a play. There is the sense that law is sort of in the air—the police are doing their work, lawyers are doing their work, courts are doing their work, and suddenly not only is Lisa involved in it, but you feel the vectors of these authorities.

I mean, she does very, very well—she does very well for anybody, but particularly for a kid. Do you plan a film out before you get to the location or sets? If you read the screenplay, there are a number of shots written out that I thought of while I was writing it—I would say about a fifth of the scenes—I had an idea of what I thought they should look like.

Once you start talking to the cinematographer and get closer to shooting you really start thinking about how it should look; how you want to express the ideas visually or how you want to tell the story visually. With this [movie] more than the previous one, I had a clear idea about how I wanted it to look. Originally conceived as a three-hour movie, it has been allowed into cinemas in a two-and-a-half hour cut. Perhaps Lonergan is content with this and perhaps not, but the resulting movie is stunning: provocative and brilliant, a sprawling neurotic nightmare of urban catastrophe, with something of John Cassavetes and Tom Wolfe, and rocket-fuelled by a superbly thin-skinned performance by Anna Paquin.

Its sheer energy and dramatic vehemence, alongside that raw lead performance, puts it way ahead of more tastefully formed dramas. Paquin plays Lisa, the daughter of divorced parents: a mouthy, smart-but-not-that-smart teen at private school, sexy but emotionally naive, self-absorbed and scarily hyper-articulate in the language of entitlement and grievance.

She may have inherited drama-queen tendencies from her mother Joan J Smith-Cameron , a Broadway stage star, with whom she lives in New York. One day, after an encounter of pouting defiance with her exasperated mathematics teacher Matt Damon , Lisa takes it into her head to buy a cowboy hat.

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How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. Guilt-stricken over her role in the woman's death, Lisa's mood swings from normal to furious, with her angry outbursts mostly directed at her mother J.

Lisa reaches out to the dead woman's best friend Jeannie Berlin and the bus driver, but her failed efforts to make amends only lead to more hostility. Kenneth Lonergan. Sep 30, limited.

Oct 18, Fox Searchlight. Anna Paquin Lisa Cohen. Smith-Cameron Joan.