Personal Velocity: Three Stories

First Premise: Delia (Kelly Preston) takes her children and leaves her abusive husband.
Second Premise: Parker Posey gets a great promotion.
Third Premise: A girl picks up a hitchhiker.

Alright, I know that those plot descriptions were rather vague, but I didn't want to spoil this amazing movie. I wrote the descriptions out separately because the movie is divided into three parts. They are not intertwined but clearly indicated by titles.

The film is a combination of live action and stop photography that goes forwards and backwards in time. Each tale is told with precision and patience. I'm not saying that the movie moves progresses slowly; I'm saying that the director, who I believe is also the narrator, allows a certain grace in his storytelling that can only come with time.

Kelly Preston's highly sexual Delia is fantastic portrait of the way a woman can manipulate a man through actions alone. Parker Posey brings new insight to a cold-hearted wench. As for the other girl, I cannot recall the name of the actress or the character, but her story is worth watching if only for the pure strangeness of it.

As for the title, each story is about the woman in question coming to terms with who she is and what she brings to the table. In each case, the women have to lose what has held them down and, perhaps, even fall into old patterns in order to grow.

The film is powerful but also sexual explicit in some parts. Also, Delia takes a pretty bad beating in the beginning. On the other hand, that's only the beginning, and it is integral to the story line. If you can get past it, the movie is by far worth your time.

One more small note, this movie was either a limited release or an independent film, so you may have difficulty finding it. I suggest including your local library in your search. Libraries have tons of great movies, new and old, which they will happily give you for a standard week for FREE. And then you can join the three percent of us who have library cards.