This is a most beautiful film in my opinion. By turns funny and touching this was a fanatastic cinematic experience for me. I found myself unable to take sides as the characters in front of me turn into real people. This film combines great acting with a good story: a recent widow finds out that her husband had a lover. She decides to dig in just be surprised by the fact that the lover was a man. Yet she keeps coming back to this new world, trying to find herself by finding out who her husband really was. The DVD is good without going really very far. There's a trailer, a couple of trailers for other films, a making of. The menus I found slightly annoying but might be just my copy.
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I watched this film at an arty Spanish Film Festival two years ago and it was full of beret-wearing appreciaters of the arts. They frantically made notes and nodded in the right places and I felt extremely out-of-place (being an IT Consultant). But, once I stopped trying to see the "hidden meanings" and "cultural significance" in this film, I really started to enjoy it! Just thinking about some of the scenes can make me laugh out loud and I'm always telling people about the funny and outrageous things that are depicted. I really recommend it to people who just want to have a fun evening. And you may even find it to be poignant!
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There is a VERY tenuous plot to this, in fact, to call it a story is stretching the point. However, having seen a selection of lesbian porn, I can assure you that, despite the acting and production values, this isn't too bad. If this were a book it would be 4 chapters of "Lesbian Erotica for Beginners" - if that's your bag, give it a go. However, if you want Oscar winning stuff, try something else.
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"How can these heavenly creatures be real?" asks one of the characters in of "Heavenly Creatures," the exquisite and horrifying docudrama of a shocking, real-life murder. Famed director Peter Jackson uses spectacular special effects and great actors to show us how these heavenly creatures became monsters.
In 1952, Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) is a loner at her proper New Zealand school, until the day Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) arrives -- an intelligent, witty, daring girl who appeals to Pauline. Soon the two of them are nearly inseparable; even Juliet's four month stint in the hospital doesn't separate the girls through their letters and shared fantasies.
A manipulative and self-centred young woman entices young men. When one of her admirers wants more than she wishes to give she uses her charms to seduce a naive young man - and fellow student - to commit murder.
On the run the curious young man (superbly played by Belgian Renier) is given the chance to explore, more deeply than he imagined possible, the reasons for his previous inability to consummate his relationship with our erstwhile 'heroine'.
A seductive piece of European cinema - but only for the open-minded or curious maybe. Some atmospheric forest shots and some very friendly rats...
There are 'deux denouments' - when most films have only one!
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A manipulative and self-centred young woman entices young men. When one of her admirers wants more than she wishes to give she uses her charms to seduce a naive young man - and fellow student - to commit murder.
On the run the curious young man (superbly played by Belgian Renier) is given the chance to explore, more deeply than he imagined possible, the reasons for his previous inability to consummate his relationship with our erstwhile 'heroine'.
A seductive piece of European cinema - but only for the open-minded or curious maybe. Some atmospheric forest shots and some very friendly rats...
There are 'deux denouments' - when most films have only one!
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Not sure what I expected but enjoyable in a quirky kind of way. High colour sets and costumes reflect the technicolor world and the over-the-top sterotypic cartoon-type characters parody the cliches of the time. The gay theme is very positive whilst contrasting with the closeted world of the time which the main character has to inhabit for a while. Some great one liners - especially from the agent and the butler. Don't expect a serious film about a Rock Hudson type scenario. It's all light hearted, jokey, camp and colourful.
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acting poor,plot thin,but if you are watching with mates & loads of drink a fun comedy horror.carry on screaming til you die laughing!!!!!!
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I love this series but it is now losing it's impetus, recyling Ted as an adictive personality only entertains so many times. That said it is raunchy by US standards and the actors still convince but you can tell the straight ones - they don't really know what to do with their hands in a clinch! Five stars for the excellent Sharon Gless.
Not surprised season 5 is the last but I will stay loyal
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