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Pretty Persuasion
Interview, Sept, 2005 by Karen Wilson
REVIEW: PRETTY PERSUASION (Samuel Goldwyn) Directed by Marcos Siega
Evan Rachel Wood has led quite an adventurous onscreen life. As a pre-teen on the TV series Once and Again, she had an affair with Mischa Barton, and in Thirteen (2003) she did whippets and punched herself in the face. In Marcos Siega's Pretty Persuasion, a Heathers-style satire, she again titillates as Kimberly, a brunette Lolita who rules her exclusive Beverly Hills prep school with a knowing smile and a little sexual blackmail. Wood carries off Kimberly's deviousness with aplomb. However, the film's ability to critique the systems that seek to exoticize her--local television news, TV teen dramas, high school English teachers--does not come across as sophisticated as its nubile star.
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