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''Georgia'' is a 1995 American independent film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. In the film, Leigh played Sadie Flood, a punky barroom singer who has a complicated, jealous but loving relationship with her older sister, Georgia, played by Winningham. Georgia is a successful, talented and well-adjusted folk music singer and a happily married mother of two. Sadie is passionate but self-destructive and untalented. While she seeks fame, she destroys herself through drug abuse. Although the movie focuses largely on Sadie, it was apparently titled ''Georgia'' because Sadie defines her own identity so much through her older sister. John Doe of the punk band X played a supporting role and performed as a member of Sadie's band. The music in the film consisted of 13 songs which were recorded live and performed by the actors ("a risk that has paid off spectacularly in terms of emotional intensity", according to ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Kenneth Turan). These included covers of songs by Lou Reed, Elvis Costello and, most famously, Van Morrison: in the talked-about centrepiece of the film, Sadie drunkenly performs a raw, gruelling 8½-minute version of Morrison's "Take Me Back" in a ragged Janis Joplin-style gut howl at an AIDS benefit concert. The film was a very personal project for Jennifer Jason Leigh: it was written by her mother, Barbara Turner, Leigh and Turner co-produced it themselves, and she chose as her co-star her longtime real-life friend Mare Winningham, whom she had known since the age of 13. It was directed by Ulu Grosbard, a friend of her mother's. ==Release== ''Georgia'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Festival de Cannes: Georgia )〕 ''Georgia'' was released in the U.S. on December 8, 1995. It received a positive critical reception. Susan Wloszczyna of ''USA Today'' described the film as "a painful though sadly humorous portrait of sisterhood," and Roger Ebert said ''Georgia'' was "a complex, deeply knowledgeable story about a truly lost soul and her downward spiral" in his 3.5/4-star review. Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'' said “''Georgia'' is Leigh’s high-wire act, and her fierce, funny, exasperating and deeply affecting portrayal commands attention.” James Berardinelli of ''Reel Views'' praised it as “a tour de force for Leigh... there are times when it's uncomfortable to watch this performance because it's so powerful”, adding “''Georgia'' doesn't possess an amazingly original narrative, but what distinguishes this picture is the depth of the characters and the amazing power with which the two leads breathe life into them.” Kenneth Turan of the ''Los Angeles Times'' said “Leigh’s exceptional performance tears you apart… we’ve never seen anything like it before”, adding that "''Georgia'' is not an easy film, but in the American independent arena, it outperforms everything in sight.”〔 〕 It was also voted one of 1995’s ten best films by ''Interview'', ''New York Post'', ''Detroit Free Press'', ''Los Angeles Daily News'' and ABC Radio Network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georgia (1995 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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