AFI FILM FEST: THE FINAL WEEK
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T he following are capsule reviews of this week’s screenings at the AFI Film Festival of Los Angeles. Screenings take place at the Los Feliz Theater, 1822 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, except where noted. Tickets and information: (213) 520-2000 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY
“Unfinished Business” (U.S.A., 1986, 8:30 p.m., Barnsdall). As an actress, Viveca Lindfors has such explosive command that she sometimes needs a tight rein. Here, she doesn’t get it--she’s also the writer and director. And the story--an orgy of poolside guilt, recrimination, and bared secrets between a divorced theatrical couple--offers too many temptations: pained smiles, desperate laughter and hoarse revelations . . . not to mention angst in the Jacuzzi. Yet one can’t be too rough on it; it’s a workshop production, shot cheaply on video and transferred to film, and--as such--is a sympathetic try.
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