I must admit I don't like Greenaway as a rule, and I find Prospero one of Shakespeare's least appealing characters. But this film is quite extraordinary in all sorts of respects. Nyman's music is fantastic, and used here to good effect (Nyman didn't think so, and broke up with Greenaway as a result, but that's his problem). Ditto Sarah Leonard's singing. An ancient Gielgud is splendid as Prospero. Michael Clark's performance as Caliban has to be seen to be believed. The visuals are unlike anything else you have ever seen. (What sort of casting agency can come up with about 100 people aged from about 5 to about 80, all naked for all of the time? Perhaps they are the members of a naturist club? They play the "spirits" of the island.) The idea ... Read More:
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Serendipity. I thought I was off to a bad start, bringing home the wrong dvd in the case belonging to another film. So, I did not want to see this film but I am glad I did. In all probablility my chosen movie would not have been as superb a slice film as this delectable and delicate taste of what independants in both US and Europe can do together. Seven years apart, two heroine sisters embark on fantastic journeys through early 1970's post-student demo / Baader-Meinhof Europe. Sumptuously shot in the Algarve, Portugal; and in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam (the film is reminiscent of BBC tv's "Lost on a Train": Paul Verhoeven's "The Fourth Man", but has its own distinct flavour), it's touchingly acted by Brewster , Diaz and especially ... Read More:
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Serendipity. I thought I was off to a bad start, bringing home the wrong dvd in the case belonging to another film. So, I did not want to see this film but I am glad I did. In all probablility my chosen movie would not have been as superb a slice film as this delectable and delicate taste of what independants in both US and Europe can do together. Seven years apart, two heroine sisters embark on fantastic journeys through early 1970's post-student demo / Baader-Meinhof Europe. Sumptuously shot in the Algarve, Portugal; and in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam (the film is reminiscent of BBC tv's "Lost on a Train": Paul Verhoeven's "The Fourth Man", but has its own distinct flavour), it's touchingly acted by Brewster , Diaz and especially ... Read More:
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Serendipity. I thought I was off to a bad start, bringing home the wrong dvd in the case belonging to another film. So, I did not want to see this film but I am glad I did. In all probablility my chosen movie would not have been as superb a slice film as this delectable and delicate taste of what independants in both US and Europe can do together. Seven years apart, two heroine sisters embark on fantastic journeys through early 1970's post-student demo / Baader-Meinhof Europe. Sumptuously shot in the Algarve, Portugal; and in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam (the film is reminiscent of BBC tv's "Lost on a Train": Paul Verhoeven's "The Fourth Man", but has its own distinct flavour), it's touchingly acted by Brewster , Diaz and especially ... Read More:
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