Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her is a film written and directed by Rodrigo Garca starring an ensemble cast. The film Garcas directing debut was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Award. Holly Hunter was nominated for the 2001 Emmy in the supporting actress category.

In the films prologue, Kathy Amy Brennemana police detectiveand her partner are investigating the apparent suicide of an unknown woman. Dr. Keener Glenn Close, a middleaged doctor, attempts to care for her aging mother while coping with her own loneliness. She avoids intimacy, but also longs for it we see both frustration and anticipation as she waits for phone calls from male colleagues. Dr. Keener decides to seek comfort or escape in Christine Calista Flockhart who reads tarot cards. Christines partner Lilly Valeria Golino is critically ill with an unnamed disease, possibly cancer.Rebecca Holly Hunter is a successful bank manager whos not big on regrets. After a threeyear involvement with Robert Gregory Hineswho keeps her secret from his wifeshe becomes pregnant. Before Rebecca visits Dr. Keener to get an abortion, she has a fling with Walter, Matt Craven, a subordinate. ........

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