Actually I'm lying. I have to agree with the lone reviewer who gave this movie 1 star.
This movie sucked. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was so Amazon would post it, and unwitting readers (thinking I'd really liked the movie) would read my review, eager to see why I'd liked it, and learn the grisly truth.
I actually didn't even get 30 minutes into this 74 minute movie. It's that bad. Really. I actually was fascinated by how unengaged I was. It was really interesting to me.
You see the only reason I rented this movie was because I'm a big Jane Campion fan. The Piano, Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke - all intresting movies. But man, whew, this one's a stinker.
Stay away. To quote the other reviewer who was dead on about this movie, "YAWN!"
just australian
This movie is a must for all down under fans. The actors play really cool and the story is well done. I just liked it, the accent reminded me of OZ and I seen it on and on.
Appeals to Australian audiences
Two Friends is a must for anyone who grew up in Australia in the 1980's. I think a lot of other people may find the film tedious and hard to follow. A great movie to show in schools too. :)
Aussie director Jane Campion's one of a kind. Forget money and fame; she's inspired by the pleasure of sharing her cinematic dreams with friends and film audiences. Her globetrotting heroines (Angel at My Table, The Piano, Portrait of a Lady) may be willful, crazed, self-absorbed, wrong--but who can resist joining these passionate women on their voyages of self-discovery, whether they lead to safe harbor or dead end?
Holy Smoke opens deliriously in a magical India, saturated with light, color, sensuality. Celebrated by Neil Diamond's anthem, "Holly Holy," Ruth Baron (Kate Winslet, delivering a breathtakingly luminous performance) explores a world that encourages spiritual epiphany--and falls hard for the cartoonish guru who opens her "third eye." Back home... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kate Winslet - Harvey Keitel Director(s): Jane Campion DVD Release Date: Released the 04 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Tokyo Story is a film about families and for that reason could have been a horror film . After all , what are we all facing at the end of life ? Who might we need to help us ?
At the moment , you may not be at that stage so you may feel you can forget about how you treat people in your life .
This film may make you reassess ( temporarily ) then go back to your normal way of living .
If it makes you think , then it has fulfilled its purpose .
Film critics love to get intellectual about very simple things -a sort of backward way to look at things . They love this film . Watch it and see something you've missed .
This kinky love story features a standout performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, an offbeat young actress in her first starring role. Gyllenhaal plays Lee, a nervous girl who compulsively cuts herself, who gets a job as a secretary for Edward, an imperious lawyer (James Spader, an old hand at tales of perverse affection). Edward's reprimands for typos and spelling errors begin with mild humiliation, but as Lee responds to his orders--which are driven as much by his own anxieties and fears as any sense of order--the punishments escalate to spankings, shackles, and more. Secretary walks a fine line. It finds sly humor in these sadomasochistic doings without turning them into a gag, and it takes Lee and Edward's mutual desires seriously without getting self-righteous or pompous.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Maggie Gyllenhaal - James Spader DVD Release Date: Released the 01 April 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A sleek George Clooney and a seductive Catherine Zeta-Jones square off magnificently in the divorce comedy Intolerable Cruelty. The plot is simple: Lawyer supreme Miles Massey (Clooney, Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven) skillfully outmaneuvers gold-digger Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones, Chicago, Traffic) when she divorces her wealthy husband--and she sets out to get revenge. But this movie comes from the creative minds of the Coen Brothers (Fargo, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?), and so Intolerable Cruelty includes a Scottish wedding chapel in Vegas, an asthmatic hit man, fluffy-dog-stroking European nobility, and a legendarily unbreakable pre-nuptial agreement. Still, it's pretty restrained for the Coens; smooth and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): George Clooney - Catherine Zeta-Jones - Billy Bob Thornton Director(s): Ethan Coen - Joel Coen DVD Release Date: Released the 10 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For anyone who's ever yearned for respite from a life of loveless drudgery--or just a break from the daily routine--A Brief Vacation offers a breath of fresh air. Having enjoyed latter-day success with frothy comedies and prestigious acclaim for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Vittorio De Sica returned to his neorealist roots (at least partially) with this engaging study of Clara (Florinda Bolkan), an exhausted factory worker in Milan, unappreciated by her demanding family and suffering from the onset of tuberculosis. She's sent to a sanitorium in the Italian Alps for rest and treatment, where she's befriended by wealthy and working-class patients alike, and falls in love with a charming Frenchman (Daniel Quenaud) who promises everything she's denied by her selfish,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Vittorio De Sica DVD Release Date: Released the 16 December 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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