Cineaste, June 22nd, 1995
A film about sexual harassment is a film with a built-in controversy. Like abortion, the topic occasions nothing close to a reasonable debate in this country at this particular moment. David Mamet's Oleanna, the film adapted from his long-running stage play, exploits this political powder keg, lighting a fuse and standing back to watch it burn.
Split into three acts, Oleanna has the simplest of plots, but is clogged with the kind of theatrical wordplay and 'meaning' which suggest there is more here than first apparent. While most films employ dialog to get at the essence of a problem to be ...
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