Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay
Chris' Movie Questions: My MYSTIC RIVER Review
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: littleguitar on July 08, 2006, 05:44:44 pm ---I've never seen it Chris, but every time I think of renting it, I think of a particular Seinfeld episode then put it right back on the shelf... ;)
--- End quote ---
LOL....I get ya!
saucycobblers:
I think it's great Chris. It's got all that restaint with passion bubbling underneath the surface thing going on - very English. Great performances from Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes. VERY moving at the end. Oh, and the cinematography & music are fabulous too!
serious crayons:
My favorite part of the book was the necrophilia scene -- well, it takes place off-stage, but it's alluded to, and it's presented as romantic and kind of sexy, which to me was a very novel idea, to say the least. Unfortunately, the filmmakers chickened out and left it out of the movie.
ednbarby:
I love "The English Patient." But then, I love Ralph Fiennes. Actually, this was the movie of his that sent me over the edge where that's concerned. Well, this and "Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'" (with him as Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as Cathy). The characters he plays in both movies are not likable. Not at all. And yet you feel for them because he gives them a vulnerability someone else wouldn't have been able to carry off.
Even better than the movie "The English Patient" is Ralph Fiennes' reading of the book. Actually a condensed form of the book that was recorded a year or two after he made the movie. What he does with the characters' dialog is amazing. He doesn't make his voice go up an octave when he reads the females' words - but he changes something so subtle in cadence and intonation that he makes the distinction between the male and females, when talking with each other, easy. And he has the most remarkable voice. I could listen to him read a dictionary and swoon.
I thought the movie was really beautiful - especially Juliette Binoche's role in it. She is truly the star and the moral compass or conscience of the piece. She's the glue, as they say, that holds it all together. I would watch it for her alone, and when I do rewatch it, it's mostly for her (and the cheap thrills every now and again at Ralph's physical loveliness and raw intensity, of course).
vkm91941:
I agree with Barb, mostly, Ralph Fiennes is excellent as this throughly unlikable character. Juliet Binoche is wonderful and the part of the story which centers around her character is very good. I thought it an overly long, visually stunning, but unsympathetic film. In other words not my favorite Picasso.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version