One of the best, most innovative films of recent years. This takes cinema and filmmaking to a whole new level. It's what cinema was invented for. The experience of this film is unlike any other due to the flawless technique Mike Figgis uses of splitting the screen into four quadrants and using hand held digital cameras to film in continuous takes. It centres on a fictitious production company and is character driven as we watch the intertwining lives of Hollywood executives and would-be actresses. The script, being improvised, makes the actors work hard and it's a masterstroke of casting for each and everyone pulls it off seamlessly. Jeanne Tripplehorn has never been better, why doesn't someone give this woman a decent script? because this film proves she is an actress of high calibre. And Holly Hunter in a surprising detour from her usual screen persona, plays a timid emotionally wrought executive which is a definite career highlight.
With great humour Mike Figgis never loses sight that this is an experimental film up against the popcorn fodder of today's multiplexes so pokes fun at his own innovation, and this probably saves the film from being too laden down with its own cleverness. All in all this is a cinema treat, and one which shouldn't be so quickly dismissed even if you aren't into experimental film. This is the way forward for filmmaking, it just might take a while for the rest of the world to catch up.
With great humour Mike Figgis never loses sight that this is an experimental film up against the popcorn fodder of today's multiplexes so pokes fun at his own innovation, and this probably saves the film from being too laden down with its own cleverness. All in all this is a cinema treat, and one which shouldn't be so quickly dismissed even if you aren't into experimental film. This is the way forward for filmmaking, it just might take a while for the rest of the world to catch up.
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