Birth (2004)
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: Technicolor 100m
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare
Synopsis:
A woman loses her husband to a heart attack in Central Park. Ten years later she is on the point of remarrying when a ten year-old boy claiming to be her late husband pleads with her not to.
Review:
This fascinating character study begins as a tale of the uncanny and although it later becomes an example of the turmoil a child can cause in adults' lives there remain unexplained details to the end. In any event the hapless figure played by Kidman is enslaved by her (unrequited) love for 'Sean', as well as by her social class, and that is the real interest of the movie. It is a chilly, formally deliberate film of lingering shots and the cast fully rises to the challenge, but there may just be too little substance for many tastes.
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: Technicolor 100m
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare
Synopsis:
A woman loses her husband to a heart attack in Central Park. Ten years later she is on the point of remarrying when a ten year-old boy claiming to be her late husband pleads with her not to.
Review:
This fascinating character study begins as a tale of the uncanny and although it later becomes an example of the turmoil a child can cause in adults' lives there remain unexplained details to the end. In any event the hapless figure played by Kidman is enslaved by her (unrequited) love for 'Sean', as well as by her social class, and that is the real interest of the movie. It is a chilly, formally deliberate film of lingering shots and the cast fully rises to the challenge, but there may just be too little substance for many tastes.
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: Technicolor 100m
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare
Synopsis:
A woman loses her husband to a heart attack in Central Park. Ten years later she is on the point of remarrying when a ten year-old boy claiming to be her late husband pleads with her not to.
Review:
This fascinating character study begins as a tale of the uncanny and although it later becomes an example of the turmoil a child can cause in adults' lives there remain unexplained details to the end. In any event the hapless figure played by Kidman is enslaved by her (unrequited) love for 'Sean', as well as by her social class, and that is the real interest of the movie. It is a chilly, formally deliberate film of lingering shots and the cast fully rises to the challenge, but there may just be too little substance for many tastes.