Movies
May, 1995
The film Amateur (Sony Classics) is another off-the-wall demicomedy by writer-director Hal Hartley, whose three previous works--The Unbelievable Truth, Trust and Simple Men--have established his reputation as a film poet unfettered by rules. Here, an amnesiac (Martin Donovan) who can't recall his former career as a pornographer meets an ex-nun (Isabelle Huppert) with problems of her own. She writes stories for a porno magazine and claims to be a latent nymphomaniac who has never had sex. Their b...
