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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)
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The Heart is Deceitful Above Al ...
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"This is a Spout Mavens review (#2). For more information, read here. This film is based on a memoir by J. T. LeRoy. Except that J. T. LeRoy was discovered to be a pen name for writer Laura Albert, and the book billed as a memoir was actually an elaborately written hoax (complete with a public persona posing as transsexual LeRoy), and Asia Argento directed and starred in the adaptation of the hoax to screen. Asia plays Sarah, an unstable, single mother, who appears to derive her income from prostitution and who gave up her child, Jeremiah (initially played by Jimmy Bennett), to foster care. The film opens as Jeremiah is being dropped off to his mother by his foster parents, as he cries and pleads for them not to do so. Jeremiah has grown to love his foster parents, and Sarah is nothing but a stranger to him. While Jeremiah rails against his mother's would-be affections, she essentially emotionally abuses him into trusting her, telling him that his foster parents never loved hi ... "
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"Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ** Stars out of 5 Directed by: Asia Argento Starring:
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The Heart and the Film is Most ...
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"The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) was a movie based on the bestseller "biography" that was written by J. T. Leroy. The book was based on Leroy's traumatic childhood of living in and out of foster homes and with his unstable mother. But prior to the film's release, it was discovered that the author himself never existed. Though the book was entirely fiction, it was made into a great film. Directed by and stars Asia Argento as Sarah, Jeremiah’s drug crazed mother. We first see Jeremiah (at age 7 played by Jimmy Bennett), taken away from his foster parents who tried to adopt him, but were denied by his mother. Before Jeremiah knows it, he is given back to Sarah. It becomes clear that something is not quite right with her. The apartment that she lives in is a wreck: very little furniture, no dishes and little food. Jeremiah, not unexpected, is very upset and is in a state of denial of it all. He does not want to be there, he does not believe that the woman h ... "
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Innocence Does Not Come Undone
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"Mauro (played by Michel Joelsas) is like all ten-year-olds. He loves his parents, his friends, but most of all soccer. However innocence is only granted to the children of Brazil in 1970. Unbeknownst to Mauro, his parents are in trouble. They all quickly pack their things and take Mauro to his grandfather’s place. His parents continue to say that they are only ‘going on vacation’ and they should return soon. When Mauro asks when they would return, they say they will return by the World Cup. This sets the stage for Cao Hamburger’s The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2007).
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"The most difficult part for me in actually writing a critique of this movie is figuring out whether or not I actually liked the film. There were surefire moments of brilliance, but there were also long, disturbing stretches where I was tempted to turn the movie off. As mentioned by almost every other review of the film I've read, this movie explores all sorts of depths of depravity and doesn't let up. It seems to have the most fixation upon how almost every sleaze-bag guy that Jeremiah's mother dates is also a closet pedophile. The film also doesn't shy away from the fact that Jeremiah's mother is not only participating in all sorts of debauchery herself, but also knowingly introducing Jeremiah to all of the drugs and alcohol that she consumes on a daily basis. I guess, in a way, this is really the main redeeming quality of the film: it doesn't shy away from anything, especially when it's bizarre and cringe-inducing. I don't think anyone can say that Asia Argento doesn't give a ... "
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"Fox Searchlight Pictures, in association with Saturn Films and Protozoa Pictures, presents The Wrestler, a film by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream). The screenplay was written by Robert D. Siegel with cinematography by Maryse Alberti (Taxi to the Dark Side). The Wrestler stars Mickey Rourke in the title role with Marisa Tomei in the supporting female role. Evan Rachel Wood plays Stephanie, Rourke's estranged daughter. This film is not yet rated, however the content clearly merits an MPAA “R” rating for language, sexual situations, adult situations, and drug use. This picture runs 109 minutes. Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Rourke) is a professional wrestler, once at the top of the profession, who is now aging and struggling to hang on to the one thing he knows. His love interest, played by Marisa Tomei, is Cassidy who is a dancer at a local strip club. The Wrestler is a ho-hum story that is poorly executed as a film. While watching The Heart ... "
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"The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things tells the story of a small boy passed around from person to person but always haunted by his mother. There were a lot of aspects of this movie that resonated deeply with me because I had a similar upringing but strange visuals ruin any brilliance the movie may have reached. After being in a loving foster home for several years, Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse) is returned to the care of his narcissistic drug addicted mother. When he tries to return home, his mother, Sarah (Asia Argento), convinces him his foster parents don’t want him anymore. She also leads him to believe that if he were to return to his foster home, he’d end up dead. She leads him on an escapade through several moves, several boyfriends, a few husbands, and endless abuse. She goes as far as introducing him to drugs at a very young age. Jeremiah looses himself through time and begins to fall into his mother’s insanity. My big ... "
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The Good in All Things Is Lost
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"Oh my. Some films are just too damned full of themselves. THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS is a bit too self-involved to know that it might have been an interesting movie. Make no mistake, it would NEVER have been a good time but this film can't even tell the difference between what it does well and what it's lousy at. And when I say "this film" I'm really pointing the finger at the director (Asia Argento, hipster daughter of accomplished Italian director Dario Argento). There are movies about depravity and scum-sucking no goodness that still manage to be a good time, or to inform, or dazzle but not this rudderless ship run aground as it drags bodies on the rocks of creative intent. This film is so busy with "edgy" grittiness that it leaves its own characters and story in the dust. Ultimately what it tells us over and over and over again is that just because a mother and son have a bond, it ain't necessarily a divine union. Raise your hands if you think there should ... "
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"Perhaps a movie can exist solely to make you glad your mom isn’t a goddamn whore.I’m sure director/lead actress Asia Argento had artier ambitions when she took on The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, a film version of a supposedly fictionalized account of a supposedly real author’s supposed childhood, than giving me warm fuzzies about me own dear mum. But in the end, after ninety-plus minutes of extremely horrid mothering, child rape after child rape, gender confusion and religious torture and brainwashing, I felt a deeply abiding satisfaction with my own personal upbringing. The worst moments in my childhood didn’t even come within miles of even the slightest suffering the young boy in this film faces. It even nudged me into calling my mom later that evening to catch up on things, and while the onslaught of lurid imagery captured within the film still flashed behind my eyes whilst I spoke to her, I was relieved to hear the voice of someone who would nev ... "
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"The Heart Is Deceitful Above All ThingsWritten & directed by Asia Argento, based on the novel by J. T. LeRoyMy heart sank when I pulled the DVD out of the envelope. Wasn't interested in watching this film, and my first instincts were correct. A horror story told erratically and clumsily, without any relief. Not the performances, not the writing, not the camera work.In hindsight I noticed that the kudos on the DVD sleeve are for the novel, not the film. But the film doesn't make me want to read the book. "
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