Show The HeralfJ Journal Logan Utah Friday December 26 2003 C5 SHERMANS LAGOON nmutittapoA Raurruou mamMMn? yoMMmm come By Christy Lamlre AP Entertainment Writer “Cold Mountain’’ plays like a glossy version of “The Odyssey’’ crossed with “The Simple Life’’ It might sound crass to mention a reality show in the same breath as this perhaps the ' ' Most Important Film in a crowded season of CATHY wwatea me sou : HDnOFO6Cawi& MO WtDUHETD surpiuk CM BN n MMPte nbc BRMMMr THEM tone roa 'y Very Important Films-' ' Arid yet “Cold Mountain'’ left me well a little cold I admired what I saw I just wasn't moved by it Also' there comes a point You can’ tgo Homer again IMRE ROW aUlMAlME THBf MIST WNE 6NGN UP PICKED : a umE visit! ' Movie review APPhoto: ' t 'Nicole Kidman and Jude Law Minghella'sCold Mountain" 1 star in Anthony Everything about it demands respect — from director Anthony Miiighella (an Oscar winner ' for “The English Patient”) to the stray of abid- -' ing love and perseverance which he adapted from Charles Frazier's dense prose to the for-blonde Pans Stffluesq midable ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman Jjnk of an ? ' - Jude Law and Renee Zellweeer -wobbling across Arkansas in $2000 : heels and complaining idniut having to milk every ' J inch the " cos1 ’ Hollywood epic with lush cinematog- as more is ! Zellweger compelling Ruby the from' John Seale (also an OsCftr winter wman English Patient’’) and costume and w ninMt obsessive in are that their lai jn production design j!s 4 nde than Ada and “P v detail'The opening Civil War Battle scenes art allow Zellweger feistiness s and humor Ruby so violent? they’re almost unbearable to watch steal from Kidman scenes Jo though the two reso- and some may say they're easy’ beevaJ e 9riant now which will further heighten die per-alternates between he Minghella smoothly ception that this is a Veiy Important Film and flashbacks between Ada s and y Kidman and Uw both actors with tremen- - : adous allure and presence capable of convincing man desertrawlencnters every she in ‘The Hours” hein ‘trariSfonnatimis fnend and foe -of afew more ner yandsufors conave Perdition’’ “Road to -hdifficulty on home the Law : '"Junes way though yincing us that they’re in love with each otter “d Sabbe' ftiains As the prim wealthy Ada Kidman struggles f°vcred ' alone to maintain her family’s North Carolina the stunt casting can seema bit grata- farm after ter preacher father (Donald Suther- - - : Hert 'hpymcnir HoTfman as a land) suddenly dies Law as the taciturn Corf-- : :'0U8 (lJrc ? Ttere s Giovanni Rihisi as v n way tnman to Mem tnIHipr the leader of a backwoods harem!) but it also provides one of the film's more emotional scenes between Inman and a young widowed mother who gives him shelter played by Natal- ’ BEETLE BAILEY- - fJThe ce “ Pnt - r's - - “ b£m!!d y ' - ing And by the end - - iePortman when she’s supposed r tofKM“sflilhat °ne 1 ck for!iy whom this " grand handsome film dearly’ was intended Cold Mountain’’ a Miramax Films rtlease'and sexuality Running ls rated R for violence — stars out of four - ' PEANUTS ?V ' - I ' HAMEY0U THOUGHT ABOUT rs- V: s A s i ShoshoneTrail 60IN6T0 6ET ME FOR CHRISTMAS? 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