Melbourne International Film Festival 2007
This is a horridly bleak film, but brilliant all the same. The Romania on show here is fascinating - the structures may be failing but the communities seem to form tight bonds - not that our main characters ever get to appreciate this.
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Review by Stuart Wilson
Though I giggled regularly I was wishing the darn thing would finish. Also I was a little disappointed with the Automavision (which is credited as the cinematographer), expecting something a little more striking than badly framed shots.
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Early on Eve was rather winsome, though as the film progressed she made some really strange decisions. As it stands, the film was weird enough to not work as a straight drama, and too wussy to really impress as a thriller.
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The gritty cinematography and drab colours of Hong Kong are a depressing backdrop to the events, and the action is captured brilliantly in a brutal, no nonsense fashion. The other standout feature of the film is the soundtrack.
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One particular chase is thrilling until making some rather glaring mistakes towards the end, and it seems that director Nikolaj Arcel has a bit to learn when it comes to shooting an action scene. On the plus side, there is an evil scarecrow.
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 My Son (Mon fils à moi)
However Julien almost seems to live a parallel life outside the home, dressing and acting differently around his grandmother and his girlfriend Alice. Whenever he returns he's going out of his way to please his mother, whose love for him becomes increasingly sinister.
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Moore is excellent in the protagonists role, however, oozing class in an otherwise limited cast. She lives inside her character, embodying a fragility and insecurity that leads her to need more of her son than a mother should.
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Review by Mark Lavercombe
The first fifteen minutes or so are the worst of the film, featuring some annoying setup contrivances and lame humour. Many comedies start out with a bang and then become annoying/boring or generally fizzle out towards the end, but Severance actually gets better with each passing moment.
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Review by Stuart Wilson
Teeth starts out strong, sending up extreme versions of very real attitudes out there, but later becomes too single minded to realise its potential, and kind of plateaus instead of climaxing. Weixler's standout performance is worth the price of admission alone, and it is a bold and original film, however it could have been a classic.
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Once we're into the first dare it's so much fun that we don't care. Under the deft direction of Christina Rosendahl, the girls' enthusiasm is infectious. All three give stunning performances that range from exuberant to angst-ridden.
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2007 - Official Site
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