Taking a page from her mentor Ross McElwee (Sherman's March), filmmaker Nina Davenport turns the camera on herself for this autobiographical film festival award-winning documentary about marriage and relationships that serves up more honesty and insight than any of the graphic sex talk on Sex and the City. Nina, 30, wonders if she is destined for a life of spinsterhood as, one by one, her friends marry. "Ever since I was a little girl," she confesses, "I've been afraid of being alone." Compounding her anxiety is her day job--wedding videographer!--and Nick, her ambivalent boyfriend who is five years younger and "in no hurry" to pop the question. In conversations at once funny and touching, Nina talks about love and marriage with, among others, anxious brides, former boyfriends, and, much to his initial discomfort, Nick. Sure to be a solid discussion starter between the Mars and Venus camps, this is recommended. Aud: P. (K. Lee Benson)
Always a Bridesmaid
(2000) 98 min. VHS: $19.95, DVD: $24.95. New Video Group (avail. from most distributors). Color cover. ISBN: 0-7670-3935-1 (vhs), 0-7670-3936-X (dvd). Volume 16, Issue 5
Always a Bridesmaid
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