The greatest movie ever made..!

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Load of rubbish!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge) is a Manhattan call girl. She is still in debt to her pimp Roland Cain (Colm Meaney) who has been paying for her mother's care. After her mother dies, she runs off to Newark to her cousin without telling Cain. She starts working at a hair salon and dating cab driver Elton Garrett (Vincent D'Onofrio). She wants to start a family but then Cain finds her. He takes her back to Manhattan to work off her debt.Katrin Cartlidge delivers a powerful quiet performance. Colm Meaney is able to bring a threatening menace. Writer/director Lodge Kerrigan brings a quiet desperation to this movie. The quietness is non-traditional but effective for what this movie is about.

"Claire Dolan" isn't normally my kind of film - sex and betrayal and self-hate and the like - but it has a few things going for it. Vincent D'Onofrio gives a typically good performance, with the kind of subtlety that he does so well. Colm Meaney is also good, extremely unlikable here. Katrin Cartlidge, in the title role, is a bit of a mystery. She's excellent, but tough to identify with.I watched the film mainly for Lodge Kerrigan. I'd previously seen his other two films in a similar vein. Which is, to say, stories of loners emotionally cut off from the world around them. But in this case, I found myself thinking that a little more distance would be appreciated. In his first and second films, "Clean, Shaven" and "Keane", the characters are so distant that they're practically on another planet. That is an approach that Kerrigan is much more successful at. Here, the relationships drag down and unfocus things a bit too much. Which brings me back to D'Onofrio. He is the best part of "Claire Dolan". All scenes with him are the best, the most intense.The cinematography is good. Clean, crisp, and harsh. Teodoro Maniaci does great work here. He shot Kerrigan's first film, "Clean, Shaven", and he brings out the same sense of alienation here. In the end, this is a pretty good film. Not nearly as good as it might have been, but there's something to be gained from the experience.

Sad to read (just after seeing this film) that star Katlin Cartlidge lived only 4 years after this movie was made.The first impression about this story of a prostitute was the immediate and intense sexual attraction to the actress playing Claire Dolan. Tall and slender, small breasted, straight auburn hair, reserved, intense. I thought about having sex with her for all 90 minutes. Whether partly nude or fully clothed her sex appeal never quit.BUT... but... how truthful is the script that when Claire's mother dies (early in the story) and she has a "job" to do, she does not tell her John that she just learned of her mother's death. The most natural thing in the world would be to tell him. Ah, well; movie hookers are seldom like real ones, and neither are their customers. Also this nonsense about "I'll do anything you like..." A call girl isn't likely to be open to just anything for money. That's movie nonsense.But not bad enough to spoil the movie. Not when her boyfriend/lover turns out to be Vincent D'Onofrio, one of the best actors in films these days. Despite the above flaws, the film keeps one's interest very easily. Recommended!

Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge) is a prostitute. Like many of them, she really doesn't like sex at all, or even most men, and sees it as a job. She's in debt to her pimp, Roland Cain (Colm Meaney) after he helps pay the medical bills of Claire's dying mother. When her mother passes on, Claire runs off and starts working in a salon, and meets a nice cabby named Elton (Vincent D'Onofrio). But Cain finds her, and he wants his money.Lodge H. Kerrigan has not directed many films, but if they are as good as this one, I would like to see them. He captures how sterile the sex Claire has is, and shows how she really doesn't enjoy it. I was a bit shocked by how many of the men spoke to Claire. I was taught not to talk to women that way, but then again, guys going to prostitutes probably aren't exactly classy people anyway. Kerrigan does great work with reflections throughout this film, and the ending with Roland and Elton talking on the street gives closure in it's own way.The acting was awesome. I didn't know Kartlidge could be so prickly, and I would never have imagined Meaney playing a guy who could yell like that. D'Onofrio is a good actor who wasn't given much to work with, although in his last scene with Claire he is far more disturbing than I think any other actor could be, which was what Kerrigan needed. Good, but not for the squeamish, as the movie is about a prostitute and is graphic.