Jonathan Demme jolts Venice filmfest with family drama

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VENICE, Italy (AFP) — US "Silence of the Lambs" director Jonathan Demme jolted Venice film critics Wednesday with a stirring new family drama that tightens the race for the festival's Golden Lion prize.

His emotion-packed "Rachel Getting Married" stars Anne Hathaway as a recovering drug addict who shakes up her sister's wedding with an overdose of honesty about their dysfunctional family.

"People ask me what it was like to play such a troubled character, such a tortured character, a character so consumed with darkness," Hathaway told a news conference.

"But I never saw her in any of those ways. I just thought she was a girl struggling to live an honest life. And she is honest, fiercely, painfully, impolitely honest," Hathaway added.

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