savva_pelik
Joined Mar 2002
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an absolute masterpiece that becomes quite an experience for the audience.
from the first sight, it might be interesting for those who were born in soviet regime only, since the story itself is about the darkest period of soviet regime - Stalin's era - but if you look closer you will discover a Kafka-like parable of a man trying to survive in a doomed circle of fatal circumstances.
dark, atmospheric, accurate in every single character and detail, this film requires your involvement to be understood and appreciated -
and once this happens, you will achieve a cinematic treasure, one of a kind.
10/10
from the first sight, it might be interesting for those who were born in soviet regime only, since the story itself is about the darkest period of soviet regime - Stalin's era - but if you look closer you will discover a Kafka-like parable of a man trying to survive in a doomed circle of fatal circumstances.
dark, atmospheric, accurate in every single character and detail, this film requires your involvement to be understood and appreciated -
and once this happens, you will achieve a cinematic treasure, one of a kind.
10/10
It was more than disappointment: honestly, I can hardly believe that Michael Cunningham (the author) took part in it, writing the script. Being very impressed by the book, which was powerful both from artistic & emotional points of view, I was expecting something similar from the film, but it appeared to be a sort of predictable, bad taste melodrama with cliché circumstances and shallow characters. None of the book's main personages was properly developed (and so we get neurotical gay Johnathan, philistine housekeeper Alice, hysterical idiot Clare); moreover, less important characters (Fathers) were meant to be a kind of furniture. While watching, I had a strong impression that editors had a strict requirement to make the film as short as possible, so the narration became an unintelligible story of a six-grade pupil who remembers only "main" facts (drugs-gay-pregnancy-AIDS).
RESUME: unbelievably bad adaptation of the wonderful book.
2/10
RESUME: unbelievably bad adaptation of the wonderful book.
2/10
A true masterpiece: slow, self-closed and passionate film, that acts like a clock-bomb, which doesn't make noise, but detonates at the perfect moment in the perfect place. Nothing happens, nobody dies; the tragedy happens in silence and in characters faces. It is difficult to recommend this film, as well as it is difficult to say whether it is GOOD or BAD: the matter is if you AGREE or NOT to play by its rules, to feel the way it makes you to feel. From this point of view, it reminded me "Dancer In the Dark" with only difference: "La Pianiste" had tact, which "DID" had not. 9/10