The Fever

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The Fever ★★ 2004

Works because of Redgrave's outstanding performance, although the idea teeters (if not topples) into pretension. A nameless privileged woman decides to shake up her life by traveling to a nameless country that's in the midst of a civil war. Falling ill, she has hallucinations, seeing images of violence and revolutionaries (including Jolie) who condemn her indifference and discuss oppression. Based on the play by Wallace Shawn. 83m/C DVD . Vanessa Redgrave, Angelina Jolie, Geraldine James, Joely Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Michael Moore; D: Carlo Gabriel Nero; W: Wallace Shawn; C: Mark Moriarty; M: Claudio Capponi. CABLE

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