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mandyjr62
Reviews
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Excellent, beautiful directing, acting and writing
I loved this film. It pressed all my buttons, even though I'm a girl, I could so relate to the lead. I cried all the way home in the bus.. And one of the rarest things in film is to create a character as bigoted and stubborn as that dad, and yet still have us loving him at the end...well done Jean! Cant wait to see what you offer us next...one small thing which of course all us queers picked straight away was the Deisel jeans on the Israeli shag in the 80's! Historically impossible as we know...is but a small kvetch!...forgive me...I am a huge admirer of this director. The cinematography was flawless, the score is brilliant and will take you back to those heated moments of adolescence we all sometimes wish to forget. Very moving and 10 out of 10.
Peaches (2004)
Miscast and underdeveloped.
In a climate of poorly performing Australian feature films this offering did not prove to be any different.At a writers conference the screenwriter, when asked what the premise of the movie was, couldn't clearly articulate it. She mumbled something about "moving on" and "accepting loss"...say no more. The ideas were great but the script lacked a powerful driving narrative line. There was no clear protag and no "big idea" which feature films seem to require to keep the audience awake for two hours.
And as for the casting....if you want to get away with a 40 something man shagging a 16 year old girl then the actor needs to be ATTRACTIVE!! Hugo Weaving??...pulleeeeze!
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Interesting idea but not well rendered.
I was looking forward to this film, the milieu, setting, character choices all had great appeal. Uptight son in conflict with sexy, uninhibited mother set in contemporary LA music scene. What a disappointment! Scene after scene with no drama. There was no heat, no charge from any of the characters. And the story had a curiously pompous morality about it. Call me old fashioned but since when did pot smoking and sex with younger men make one irresponsible?