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Post by Storm on Nov 6, 2004 12:37:42 GMT
I saw this last night.
One word.
Amazing.
One of the cleverest, claustrophobic, and nerve-shattering films I've ever seen.
ANyone else seen it??
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 6, 2004 14:08:08 GMT
There was a thread a while ago I think.
It's certainly stuck in my mind since I saw it in Feb/March.
Fantastic.
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Post by jamie on Nov 6, 2004 17:17:42 GMT
I've seen part of it. It's very good and being the theatre studies geek that I am I love all the Brechtian effects in it.
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Post by si on Nov 6, 2004 19:10:17 GMT
I've seen part of it. It's very good and being the theatre studies geek that I am I love all the Brechtian effects in it. And what of the Stanislavskian techniques, young Jamie?
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Post by Ezzie on Nov 6, 2004 20:24:06 GMT
Stanislavaskian and Brechtian techniques are opposites aren't they?
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Post by Anna on Nov 6, 2004 22:31:35 GMT
Love love love this film. Thought I was going to be severely bored by it, but no.
What's a Brechtian?
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Post by jamie on Nov 6, 2004 23:19:21 GMT
And what of the Stanislavskian techniques, young Jamie? That too. How about we settle for Brechtian production effects and Stanislavskian acting? Brechtian stuff = the things like having no real set and no walls to the houses. The houses being written on the ground. The dog being written on etc. Stuff that reminds you what you are seeing is an illusion.
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Post by si on Nov 7, 2004 13:00:07 GMT
I was teasing Ezzie.
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Post by Ezzie on Nov 7, 2004 17:23:20 GMT
I know. Just wanted to show I also knew what was being talked about.
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Post by QuincyMD on Nov 22, 2004 11:30:26 GMT
I saw this over the weekend and was bored to tears. 2 h 45 min of my life wasted but i did enjoy the documentary on the Danes trip to Cannes.
Not a patch on Breaking the Waves.
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Post by Adrian on Nov 26, 2004 20:20:48 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The most memorable (ie. best) bit comes when Nicole Kidman says "goodbye Tom".
Art. Reality. Nicole. Tom. Genius!
-A
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Post by jamie on Dec 1, 2004 16:26:47 GMT
I bought the DVD of this and watched it yesterday. It was great. Not too short I findthat lots of films I go and see are really short.
Nicole Kidman was great. All the actors/actresses were good I didn't understand what the second woman in the shop(not lauren bacall) had done to Grace. Oooh god I hated that spiteful woman who smashed the porcelain.
In conclusion a great film.
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Post by TheVulcanizedOne on Dec 1, 2004 18:26:19 GMT
Brechtian stuff = the things like having no real set and no walls to the houses. The houses being written on the ground. The dog being written on etc. Stuff that reminds you what you are seeing is an illusion. You helped me in my AS drama lesson with that information, as I was able to say Our Country's Good uses a Brechtian style and my teacher nearly keeled over in shock. So this proves that Lowculture is educational and informative as well as extremely camp. Cheers for the help Jamie, you learn something new every day.
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Post by Storm on Dec 3, 2004 11:59:12 GMT
I bought the DVD of this and watched it yesterday. It was great. Not too short I findthat lots of films I go and see are really short. Nicole Kidman was great. All the actors/actresses were good I didn't understand what the second woman in the shop(not lauren bacall) had done to Grace. Oooh god I hated that spiteful woman who smashed the porcelain. In conclusion a great film. I loved the bit at the end when Nicole told her dad to kill the womans children, and that they would stop if she could stop crying. SO cruel, but so satusfying at the same time. I think it's such an interesting film, cos it's as much a commentary abotu the audience, as it is about the characters. We WANT her to get revenge, to kill these people, even though it's morally wrong.
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