'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 in common an accident and three woman intending to change their lives leaving their mates. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) is the daughter of a hippie, abused in her adolescence by her friends, married with a former boy-friend of high-school and having three children. She leaves her husband, who beats her, with the children. In a new town, beginning a new life working as a waitress and living on favor in the garage of a high school friend, she repeats the same mistake of her youth. Greta (Parker Posey) is an editor, who has never gotten close to her father after his divorce of her mother. She is married with a simple guy who loves her, but she is sort of nymphomaniac. When she becomes successful in her career, she gets closer to her father again and returns to her former ambitious way of life. Paula (Fairuza Balk) is a woman who left her family and moved alone to Manhattan. She is rescued from the streets by a man, and starts living with him. When she gets pregnant, she becomes confused with the situation and leaves home. An accident first and an incident with a lonely and wounded boy later helps her to decide her destiny. 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' is a nice and attractive independent low budget movie. I have really not understood why the stories are narrated by a man, since they are about women. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): 'O Tempo de Cada Um' ('The Time of Each One')
Title (Brazil): 'O Tempo de Cada Um' ('The Time of Each One')