Review of The Ocean of Helena Lee (2015) by Dennis Harvey for Variety — 12 May 2015
This plotless reverie is easy to admire texturally, including an original soundtrack composed with the helmer’s spouse, singer-songwriter Maria McKee. But despite those virtues, and the pic’s determinedly idiosyncratic take on autobiographically inspired material, most viewers will find the script’s narrative shapelessness and pretentiously poetic dialogue hard to take.
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This review of The Ocean of Helena Lee (2015) was written by Dennis Harvey and published by Variety on 12 May 2015.
The Ocean of Helena Lee has generally received positive reviews.
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