jhseeker

Oh dear we don't like it when our super-hero love interest develops a brain do we?

Something has happened to people, they have lost the ability to enjoy, a simple feel-good, love story/comedy? Kirsten Dunst is a revelation - funny, sexy and real. I laughed out loud ooh at least five times and I'm not ashamed to say had a tear in my eye a couple of times too. The cast, acting and script is great, I watch a lot of films right across the board and I haven't seen one in this genre that has been as successful. Those who disagree please tell me where I can find some! I'm sure the book is good too but I think you have to judge it on its own merits.

In my view the interior scenes with the family are highly awkward and the movements they are directed to make, although ambitiously designed to mirror Renaissance painting or a dance, seem just very pretentious, whereas the exteriors seem more successful to me, I don't know, maybe it's just because there's more space. I also found Susan Fleetwood's crying fit unconvincing and I found her erotic dishevelment embarrassingly contrived. I think this is his most overrated film, maybe due to it being his last, I still think it has some incredible scenes and themes that make it stand head and shoulders above most in modern cinema.

I have seen them all quite a few times each -I think my order of merit would be: 1.Andrei Rubylev - for sheer majesty of vision. 2.Solaris - amazingly weird. 3.Nostalgia - the most accessible - similar theme to Sacrifice but more effectively told. ...the rest are all incredible dreams 4.Stalker 5.Sacrifice 6.Mirror 6.Ivans Childhood.

They have all changed my life and are never far from my mind.