Reviews

I read most of the comments written here and I noticed that nobody saw in this movie nothing more then a movie dealing with black rights problem. It's far more than this. Just like Dogville was. You just have to be very attentive to words which seem without a significance like "law", "lucifer - the donkey", "dad", "grace". I'm taking about a strong religious message, almost a gnostic one. The father, the god of power and the son (daughter) the god of love, men's rules vs. God's rules, power of will and the responsibility of creation ("you made us!"). The FATHER is a big symbol of power and it seems to be invisible to the others. He is the ruler! it's easy to associate him with God. Seeing Grace we must remember the gnostic myth of Sophia were she is considered to have fallen from grace in some way, in so doing creating or helping to create the material world. Let's not forget here her sexual desires and her mistakes! I won't say much about the black subject, it's a difficult one. I just recommend this movie to you, especially if you liked Dogville. It's a special movie. A great story! And try to see more then it may seem! And see Dogvill if you didn't. It's a must!

I'm sure that I'm not the only one who after seeing this movie thought of Kusturica's "Time of the Gypsies" movie. First of all, Bregovic music, there are at list 5 songs, with some repetitions of Ederlezi, the theme of Kusturica's movie and the journey itself. The movie contains some key elements of Kusturica's other movies mixed with some Michael Moore documentary, some Jackass. A strange mix, but not so impressive that it might seam. Boran's village is, I can say for sure, a typical Romanians gypsies one. The poor people really envoy being joked at. It's funny for me to listen to the Romanian taking on the background. Many Romanians were outraged by this movie, but I'm sure not of them. If you what carefully, the joke is on the American style of life. It's a movie to see, it's not a good movie, it's just a movie. It's better then watching the news.

I read most of the comments here were everybody saw only the flaws of the movie. I agree, the director it's not Kuprik, the actors are not Oscar winners, but it has something everyone could relate to. I don't want to spoil but telling more then the plot - the finishing of school and the trip to a big party, or if you like to see beyond the metaphor, is choosing the way trough life. Remember that days of youth? the days when you or our friend acted like the characters? Or do you think you should acted like one of them and now you regret you didn't? if you can go back in to that time and if you can ask yourself any of this questions maybe the movie wasn't so bad.

True, European movie are more interesting then American Movie. This is a fact. More idea. This one's idea is not so unusual - the quest for pleasure in a pure hedonistic way, unusual is the language. It's has his good parts, i know...like Freud thought..every thing is about sex, here in a egoistic way, but is to much like Eve Ensler's monologues and the characters are much too caricatured. And another thing - maybe i'm too mean, but the movie seems like a soft-core porn, it tries to be a lesson of life, a feminist view of sexuality, to make the Clitoris the new god of pleasure (instead of the phallus), but is to descriptive for a family movie and not enough for a adult movie.

I saw a movie from this play some years ago and now i just saw this one and after i just took the book to read the play because some dialog was surely missing. The play is great. Now let's talk about the movie:

In 1966, Mike Nichols directed his first film with a screenplay adapted by Ernest Lehman from a controversial play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Martha and George. Sandy Dennis played Honey, and George Segal played Nick. All of the film's actors were nominated for Academy Awards. Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress and Sandy Dennis won for Best Supporting Actress. The film also won for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design. It was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Mike Nichols didn't win the Oscar but he did with his next movie, The Graduate.

The movie had a resounding success and I think this is all the play's merit.Lehman relocated some scenes, he also added some lines,and cut some of the dialog. This is the major mistake of the movie and it upset Albee. The play was an enormous commercial success. Many audience members and critics named it as revolutionary and as marking a new era in American drama. But many found its language, strong sexual content, interest in "taboo" subjects and criticism of the American dream as shocking and was the "reason" why the did not receive the Pulitzer award although it was voted for it.

I'm not gonna say a single word about the movie action and i advise you to read the book or to see the play because you miss very much of it's symbols and meanings, especially the political ones ("I will not give up Berlin!")

life is just a WORTH-LESS (like the name of one character) game. And we try to solve it. It's no exit. No Big Brother watching us. Who is to blame for the cube, for what is going there? The God? Or just us?

The movie suggest the worthless of the journey by the coming of the characters back to rooms where they were in the before. They don't learn anything from this trip. All they want is to escape. And for that you can do anything, no? Kill or be killed. And that for what? To get to another room. A room like the others. It reminded me of Sartre and Camus. And "Iona" by Sorescu, it's a great play of a roumanian writer. So shame it's not very known. I don't now very much about directing or acting. I can't comment on that. If you watch this movie and you start asking yourself the Question "Why ?" then this movie wasn't worthless after all.

is that kind of a movie which need a reason to show nudity, but what nudity! It's another vampire movie which tries to be wise, Freud was right, sex and blood, sex and death are related and the movie collects some stereotypical motifs...the blood of a virgine...To be short watch Milano.just her.not the movie.