Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko on November 02, 1999 at 07:45:52:

It is not too often that my reaction turns almost 180 degrees in a matter of forty five minutes. After growing more and more irritated, things suddently started unfolding in large part due to an incredibly humane and delicate performance of an unknown Marina Golovine (yes, that name helps too). The mother's character starts changing for the better too and the father (Francois Cluzet) fades into the background. By the time it is all over, you start missing it more with every second and the haunting music only add to it.

A great movie regardless of whether or how your emotions change with it. Beautiful and disturbing, although not nearly as disturbing as another Cluzet's performance - that of a paranoid husband playing opposite of Emmanuelle Beart in L'Enfer, where the tension seems to build with trully exponential rate.

And speaking of trully disturbing movies - few come close to the seemingly dry narrative documentary of the Hoop Dreams. I nearly had to force myself to start watching it, but boy, how quickly do you get absorbed into that action-less drama... Forget Spike Lee with his forced speculative attention getters - this one is real, man.