Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Writer and director Rebecca Miller(daughter of legendary playwright Arthur) patches together three stories of three different women for this film and the movie itself is quite an intriguing curiosity for it.Delia(Kyra Sedgwick,familiar yet still distinctive here)is an abused housewife and... Full review

It is so hard to find a film that actually elicits a genuine emotional response from its viewers, but you need look no further than "Personal Velocity". The direction and scriptwriting are both wonderful and the acting is definitely award-worthy.... Full review

Personal Velocity is one of the most beautifully shot digital films I have ever seen. The story is uniquely touching and develops a woman's perspective on life and love into a series of lives and events. The cinematography by Ellen... Full review

'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' is an engaging and different movie about the lives of three women. With great direction, camera, narration and performance of the cast, it hooks the attention of the viewer until the last scene. The stories have... Full review

A critic I read before seeing this movie (Lynden Barber of the Sydney Morning Herald) opined that it was a book illustrated with film rather than a proper movie. He's right, but that does not make it a complete write-off.... Full review

The best thing about this film are the three superb performances by the lead actresses in each segment. It's also a chance to explore the potential for short form film narrative by putting three short films together to create a... Full review

This movie is the story of three woman, told in separate segments. Each of the characters has to some extent engaged in self-delusion as to who they really are as persons and each one finds herself in the midst of... Full review

This film, directed and written by Rebecca Miller, is a very satisfying experience for a new director who, here, is adapting her own material with a lot of relish and savoir-faire. There's a certain elegance in the way she treats... Full review

Personal Velocity' is a kind of omnibus film, three stories, each quite distinct, but all by the same author, Rebecca Miller, who has adapted them and directed them for her own movie, directing three different women in the main roles... Full review

I saw this film tonight at the First Annual Tribeca Film Festival and understood its success at Sundance. In short, this film is about the awakening of three different women in very different lives and circle around a news report... Full review

Remarkably (and instructively), Kuras (the excellent cinematographer whose credits include I Shot Andy Warhol , Summer of Sam , Bamboozled , and Blow ) shot this film in just 16 days;....Delia's tale, after that brilliantly sashaying start, quickly descends from that moment of self-confidence to a dreadful scene at dinner.....Much like that first glance at Delia, the film gives good surface, courtesy of Miller's spare, observational prose (rendered in voiceover and dialogue) and Ellen Kuras' incisive digita ... Full Review

Pucci gives an understated yet powerful performance....Paula's story is the weakest, depending too much on quirky coincidences....Greta is easily Parker Posey's best role in years.....In all the stories, Miller shows a strong concern with the interaction among different social classes..... ... Full Review

Reflections are rewarding in character-driven 'Personal Velocity' Photographed in trendy, jittery fashion on digital video and sometimes overly reliant on closeups, "Personal Velocity" profits from a strong marriage of tight character writing to a sterling ensemble performance, especially by the three leads. ... Full Review

Personal Velocity , which tells three stories of women at turning points in their lives, is bogged down by laughable voice-over narration that provides background info and tries to explain character motivations. The narration, presumably torn from the pages of Miller's book, is an annoying stumbling block that keeps us at an objective distance. ... Full Review

The acting from all three actresses in these unrelated stories is extremely good.....The best part of the film, in fact, is the parts read by an unseen narrator --.... ... Full Review

First up in Rebecca Miller's taut little film about three women is Delia, a former teenage sexpot who once sashayed through life to the rhythm of her theme song, the old rock'n'roll hit, Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On . ... Full Article

Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) crosses the street, her blue-jeaned hips swinging.The camera follows her, close on what the narrator (John Ventimiglia) calls her strong, heavy ass. ... Full Article

Based on Rebecca Miller�s book of short stories, Personal Velocity tells the affecting stories of three American women struggling to make sense of the lives they�ve found themselves living. ... Full Article

hat a curious thing it is to listen to a man read from the pages of Rebecca Miller's female-empowering Personal Velocity . Then again, Miller's big-screen adaptation of her first novel is full of similarly fascinating juxtapositions. ... Full Article

PARK CITY, Utah--"Personal Velocity," a film by Rebecca Miller telling the separate stories of three women, won the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film here Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival. ... Full Article