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Introducing the Dwights

Not as good as I'd hoped
By 1379bengo in 1379bengo Blog
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"I know several people who worked on the film, so was looking forward to seeing it. But like Nowlan's previous films (Love Serenade and Walk the Talk) I found this a little disappointing. The surprise redeeming feature for me was the performance of Frankie J. Holden, an actor I'm not usually convinced by, but here as a best-years-behind-him-one-hit wonder working as a security guard at a supermarket and flogging his CD of Conway Twitty covers he is perfect. Holden plays Jean's estranged husband and father of Tim and Mark. His scene with Tim at night in the supermarket carpark is a gem, topped off by his parting words to his son as he thrusts $50 into Tim's hand: "This is for Mark. Buy him something he wants". In that moment and those lines of dialogue, the family's history opens up - and we have a beautifully sad insight into the profound loneliness of the distant father who doesn't know what his second son wants and relies on Tim to mediate the rel ... " [More]

The Dead Girl

Full of Life
By 1379bengo in 1379bengo Blog
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"Totally disagree with zackmulcahy. This is an extraordinary film with a novel and surprising take on an old film trope - the discovery and impact of a murder. Here rather than focusing on the police investigation or the psychology of the killer, we have a nuanced, thoughtful and moving set of stories each of which concentrates on a different person involved in the case. Four of the stories explore the impact of the crime on four different people connected with the body or the victim: the woman who finds the body, the sister of a woman who disappeared 15 years before and who may be the victim, the wife of the murderer gradually realising what he is doing, and the mother of the victim trying to come to terms with her runaway daughter's short and tragic life. The fifth and last story goes back in time to fill out the victim's story in the day before she dies. Each could have been a short film, they are beautifully self-contained, but work together as a whole to paint a pictur ... " [More]