Ray Meets Helen has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies. Filled with imaginative visuals populated by the ghosts of the gone and hopes for the future, the movie is wonderfully, magically humane.
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The Film StageJason Ooi
The Film StageJason Ooi
Delicate, immensely strange, but filled with a singular Rudolphian magic.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
After 15 years away from the cinema, Alan Rudolph reminds one of the suggestive potency of his films.
Ray meets Helen, all right, but moviegoers expecting a sprightly golden-years romance have come to the wrong place. So have those looking for a moody but credible reflection on decades of regrets.