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Chantal Akerman'sLa Captiveis a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a ... more
wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust'sLa Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submer...
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Acclaimed director Chantel Akerman becomes the latest filmmaker to take inspiration from ... more
Marcel Proust's epic masterwork 'In Search of Lost Time'. Adapted from the fifth volume, 'The Captive' tells the story of Ariane, who lives under her lover Simon's...
Ealing studios' output from the 1940s and 1950s helped define what was arguably the golden ... more
age for British Cinema. The Captive Heart, released in 1946, comes from this legendary studio.Starring a host of Ealing favourites, including Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford and Jack Warner, The Captive Heart is the story of a group of British prisoners of War, captured after Dunkirk in 1940. Amongst them is a man known as Captain Geoffrey Mitchell who has assumed the identity of a dead man after escaping from a concentration camp. With exposure seeming inevitable, the man seeks desperately to escape the camp and therefore the fate which awaits him.
The young Princess Victoria strictly confined within the boundaries of Kensington Palace ... more
is being moulded for her awesome future as Queen of England. Surrounded by her dolls and closely guarded by her domineering mother and faithful governess she slowly becomes aware of the bitter conflicts that surround her. The jealous and scheming Duke of Cumberland is a constant threat to her rightful accession...her mother's sinister friend Sir John Conroy makes her uneasy...and the bickering between her mother and the king seems never-ending. Growing up is proving difficult for the princess. She longs for her eighteenth birthday when at last she will be free to rule the nation as she pleases and to re-acquaint herself with the gallant Prince Albert.
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Starring a host of Ealing favourites including Michael Redgrave Basil Radford and Jack ... more
Warner The Captive Heart is the story of a group of British prisoners of War captured after Dunkirk in 1940. Amongst them is a man known as Captain Geoffrey Mitchell - the identity of a dead man which he has assumed after escaping from a concentration camp. With exposure seeming inevitable the man seeks desperately to escape the camp and therefore the fate that awaits him.
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Scotland has been torn apart by civil war and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen ... more
of Scots is in the hands of her enemies. Under duress Mary abdicates in favour of her son James VI and fleeing to England she boldly seeks refuge from her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth has never trusted the ambitious Mary and consequently has her imprisoned. So begins a treacherous battle between two of history's most powerful and ruthless women. Without once meeting her cousin Mary is held captive for nineteen years whilst Elizabeth rules in the shadow of countless Catholic plots against her life...
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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Horribly gory at times Disadvantages: No characterisation
and flashes of colour to attract the audience. Frankly, I've seen much better made films than this and without character development, it just isn't anything out of the ordinary, for all I was shocked by some of the nasty bits.
The ending of the film just about saved it from being truly awful, but I am still hard pressed to recommend it to anyone. If you like gory horrors and don't mind waiting until nearly the end before the story starts to get interesting, then by all means rent it. Otherwise, I think you should stay well clear. Not recommended.
Please note that I am reviewing the film only version.
The DVD is available from play.com for £5.99.
Classification: 18
Running time: 96 minutes ...
sunmeilan 24.02.2008
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Advantages: You'll be happy if you like Elisha Cuthbert not wearing much. Disadvantages: Wooden performances, shoddy direction, poor writing and no real scares.
distorted electronic arrangements and reverberating strings. There are some thriller string themes for various escape attempts and the usual music box chimes for the flashbacks to the killer's childhood that are supposed to hint at corrupted innocence but have become overused. Like the incidental music for many horror movies at the moment, the music continues in the same vein after the action draws to a close. This is misleading as it suggests the terror is set to continue despite the story clearly being over. Overall there isn't quite enough to the score for it to be effective.
"Captivity" is yet another horror movie trying to cash in on the fashion for torture movies. And like most of their ilk it is derivative, repetitive, poorly directed and badly written. The performances feel amateurish and utterly lacking in depth. The story (such as it ...
afy9mab 28.08.2007
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Advantages: great story and acting Disadvantages: none
the main role in the way that it should be played; she almost makes you feel the fear that she is feeling.
Daniel Gillies as Gary - Gary is the second person that is held captive by the kidnapper, he is the one who tries to help Jennifer escape, along with him. He gets himself tortured to try and save her. He plays a really good part in this film, although for the first part he does not appear in the film, until about half way through. Still he still makes a big impact on the film, and the outcome of how it all ends.
Pruitt Taylor Vince as Ben - Ben is the kidnapper, although you don't see his face till very near the end of the film. He does not have many lines to speak, and you never hear is voice until the back end. Even so he does play a good part, and convincing of him being a bad guy.
Apart from these three in the film, you hardly ...
kineticspade 11.05.2008
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Simon is obsessed with his lover Ariane, he needs to know exactly where she is and what she is doing, but is she leading a double life away from his prying eyes?... French dialogue with subtitles.
Theatrical Trailer, Production Notes, Filmographies
Aspect Ratio
1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 French
Professional reviews
Review
"...Akerman transforms pared-down sets, empty streets and austere landscapes into sumptuous visual experiences..." (Sight and Sound, p.45, 01/04/2001)
"...THE CAPTIVE echoes Hitchcock's VERTIGO....A film poised between dream and reality..." (Total Film, p.100, 01/05/2001)
DVD Description
The fifth volume of Marcel Proust's legendary novel REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST is the source for veteran French feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman's remarkable film THE CAPTIVE. Following a theme common in her past films--the impossibility of true knowledge of the other, Akerman crafts a severe and stilted chamber drama out of Proust's evocative and poetic text. Simon (Stansilas Merhar) is a wealthy and sensitive French man living in a posh, if cloistered, life in Paris. Ariane (Sylvie Testud) is Simon's lover and constant companion, as well as the subject of his irritated obsessions. Not satisfied with merely loving Ariane, Simon aches to have absolute knowledge of her-- her past, her present, her thoughts, and her deeds. When having her accompanied at every moment does not satisfy him, Simon begins to follow her everywhere she goes, questioning acquaintances, and constructing elaborate fictions around her every action. Suspecting her of a secret life filled with love for other women and a true happiness to which he is not privileged, Simon attempts to penetrate Ariane's aloof and opaque facade, only to bring their impossible love to a breaking point. Akerman's tight and constrained style, assisted by stylized acting, creates a complex and compelling portrait of the tragedy inherent in love.
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