Drama > Fiennes, Ralph Drama

If you see one film in your life...this is it

Advantages: Gritty, dark and realistic.. you feel like you are there
Disadvantages: It is one of the few films I wished that could have been longer than three hours

There are some things in life you will always remember and I think this film is one of those things. I went to see it originally in the opening week of its cinematic release. I had heard about this film and was very interested to see it because I have a huge interest in the holocaust and what led to it happening. I knew before I went who some of the actors cast were and I also knew that it was a film lasting for three hours. The film gripped me lice ...
...lit...to it gradually changing into black and white. I was absorbed with the power of the nazis and the futility of existence for the Jews. What this film portrays so well is the need in capitalism for exploitation. The nazis, although intent on killing every jew, still believe that they should get the most out of them before they die. they feed them minimal calories and expect them to work round the clock, you hear them talking about this at different ...

excelsior81 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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From Rags to Pretended Riches

Advantages: Romantic, Enderaring, light and entertaining
Disadvantages: Could have used some more work

...of her other performances after Maid in Manhattan, I have to say that she was at her peak performance in this film. The movie is really romantic and fun, without any of these deep brooding intensity that are found in overly-romantic ones. I would rather call Maid in Manhattan as another dimension of Pretty Woman. I will not say that it is as romantic or was well done as Pretty Woman but it comes close to. There are quite a few serious thematic elements ...
...mother. She works as a maid in a prestigious Manhattan Hotel, and is extremely dedicated to the job that she badly needs. Marisa is well loved by her fellow colleagues and as soon as there is an internal opening for a managerial position, one of her friends sends in her application. At the same time, the hotel receives some really prestigious guests that include senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall. When a series of incidents lead to Marisa ...

diamond_sparkles 04.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Maid In Manhattan (DVD)

FInally Farrell Becomes Likeable

Advantages: Tremendous script, beautiful setting
Disadvantages: Not for those easily-offended by bad language and violence

...- two hitmen hding out In Bruges - is outstanding, so realistic and constant that the film could easily be a play set in one room. It is, however, set in a wintry Bruges, which provides a beautiful backdrop witout ever overshadowing the story or the characters themselves. There is no need for expensive effects, car chases or CGI. The story is character-driven, reveals itself over time, and takes you down a couple of unexpecetd avenues. I've never ...

RFoster 27.10.2009 · Read full review

Review of In Bruges (DVD)

Third of the Graham Greene "Catholic Trilogy"

Advantages: Good film at a great price
Disadvantages: None

The End of the Affair is the third of Graham Greene's "Catholic Novels" to be adapted for the silver screen following "Brighton Rock" and "The Power and the Glory". Edward Dmytryk had made several excellent film noirs in the 1940s (Crossfire; Farewell, My Lovely) before running into trouble with HUAC. For a period in the 1950s he moved to England where he directed several films, one of them being this film. It's his experience in directing those ...
...would say give many of the scenes a strange macabre tone. I've always been a little disappointed by several of Deborah Kerr's films except in films where she playing slightly neurotic characters like in Black Narcisuss or The Innocents and The End of the Affair is another of those roles where she really excels. Van Johnson is an actor I feel like I know but in reality I don't which may have something to with fact that this probably the first film ...

Phoust 16.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The End Of The Affair (DVD)

Love will tear us apart

Advantages: Touching love story, beautiful desert scenery, well acted
Disadvantages: Very sad, jumps around a bit, perhaps a thinking persons film

...then look no further than The English Patient. I bought the English Patient on DVD at Sainsbury's a few weeks ago. I had just finished the book and thought I'd quite like to see what the film was like. I purchased it in a 3 for £30 deal. The book I read because it's on my Booker Prize winners list that I'm slowly working my way through this year. I have to be honest, although I liked the idea of it, I didn't enjoy it very much and had to force myself ...
...would like to re-read the book just to see how the director Anthony Minghella managed to create such a masterpiece from the same story I found dull on the page. Overview of the story *********************** If you have never heard of The English Patient then the following should help. The story is set at the end of the Second World War, in Italy, and for the most part moves between 1944 and up to two years before hand. The main character is a ...

Shoka 14.07.2006 · Read full review
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