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R: ARCHIVE, S: REVIEWS, D: 04/10/1997,

Love and Other Catastrophes

In this intellectually sanitized and overtly sensitive look at love and higher learning on a college campus Down Under, first-time director 23-year-old Emma-Kate Croghan takes on a too-heavy course load. She is more concerned with her actors' appearance -- they look like participants on MTV's Singled Out -- than their character development. The cast of players, who include the brooding school stud (Matthew Dyktynski), a geeky medical student (Matt Day), two lovely lipstick (black crush) lesbians (Frances O'Connor and Radha Mitchell), and a shy lovesick lass (Alice Garner), spend the entire film running around in a predictable maze of miscommunication that resolves itself at the big house party. If the plot sounds ho-hum, the sallow cinematography is even less impressive, but the film is not a catastrophe. When it accepts its status as a negligible comedy, it makes the grade. At the Kendall Square.

-- Tom Meek