Saturday, February 26, 2011
POTBOILER updated
Now, I have thought this over and decided that I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5. It actually had some interesting ideas about life and the end of it. I suppose that if you are doing that you need to have a few deaths to work over.
Today's film was
with Romaine Duris.
This one is a Canadian-European enterprise. With John Malkovich of whom I am not a fan.
This is a sort of quiet thriller, death obsessed, magical realism film in which the story sort of gets lost.
There are some great scenes. Beautiful filming here and there including NYCity. Inventive.
Duris is very good.
But the film never got shown in US theaters. Straight to DVD here.
Sometimes the pursuit of an actor's work leads to some turkeys. This is one.
Duris has made about thirty films. Many have never made it to our shores. I still plan to see most of them when they are available.
I will give this one a 2 out of Netflix5 because I didn't like it but I didn't skip.
Labels: films
