Great service
Added 9/13/2009
I had no problems with this purchase. I got it in a timely manner.
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Also shocked by such good reviews
Added 7/22/2006
I bought this movie on a whim, thinking I'd give it a try. I thought the backcover summary of the film, though cliche, looked promising as an interesting story. I was wrong. As I watched the movie, I kept waiting for it to get better and for something to happen. However, it did not. I actually found the heroine Gilda to be quite unlikeable. It was very difficult for me to feel any sympathy for her or to relate to her in the slightest. The way the movie was filmed is choppy, and it jumped about quite a lot. I could tell it was attempting to be artsy, but did not have that effect. Characters were introduced, and then quickly snatched away not to be heard from again. Also, there is no real climactic moment. The scene with Chris Noth in the hotel room was disappointingly short, then it all just sort of ended and Gilda was back home again. The sad thing is that even though the basic story is cliche, it still could have made an excellent film. The story itself had so much potential, but the movie did not, in my opinion, reach that potential.
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Surprised at the good reviews
Added 8/9/2004
I didn't like this story at all. Mostly because the story is a very old one... seen many times before. And also the camera style annoyed me. Basically we follow Gilda as she deals with her fathers illness, death, and learning of his affair with another woman. Gilda is already obsessed with an actor played by Chris Noth, but becomes increasingly so as she discovers truths about her father and family.
The style of the story is very haphazzard with lots of cuts and clips. Made it hard for me to really feel for Gilda.
The material itself seemed like movie of the week territory and was boring and trite. I couldn't tell how old Gilda was supposed to be but she can't be too world weary if she can be so easily influenced by a movie star.
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gradually winning
Added 6/13/2004
an intriguing film that gradually envelops the viewer and takes one into the interesting and unpredictable mind of its protagonist. At first I thought this was gonna be another one of those now cliched movies that features a character making their own home movie and going nowhere fast. Fortunately, I was pulled into the somewhat disturbed and surreal psychology of this woman and her strange journey. The acting is admirable and one is left being moved by this charming and troubling visionary sojourn.
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Flawed and disturbing, yet beautifully executed
Added 5/21/2004
This film is impeccably put together, with a fine cast and excellent screenplay. The story combines humor (a young woman named Gilda is obsessed with a sexy older actor, and meanwhile engages in prickly schoolgirl interactions with her mother and grandmother) with pathos (the enormity of dealing with a parent's death). The dialogue rings true and the acting is uniformly inspired. There are some touching meditations on what it is to love a parent and on our relationships with the dead. There is the ever-interesting film-within-a-film subplot as well as, for hard-core Freudians, the phallic symbolism of the video recorder. But the Freudian analysis is laid on very thick: Gilda's Electra complex manifests itself in fantasies involving incest and murder, which threaten to break through into her overt behavior as she stalks and seduces the actor. While the film implies that perhaps this leads to a cathartic resolution of her conflicts, that was not persuasive to me because her character is portrayed as a pretty sick puppy in serious need of psychiatric intervention. Another bone I would pick is that the "paradise" theme is more of a throwaway motif than an integral part of the film (though I did enjoy the shot of bathroom graffiti about "paradice"). But even the underdeveloped theme and unconvincing psychological portrait didn't detract too much from what is in many ways a very intelligent, gutsy, affecting, and refreshing film.
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Great service
Added 9/13/2009
I had no problems with this purchase. I got it in a timely manner.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Also shocked by such good reviews
Added 7/22/2006
I bought this movie on a whim, thinking I'd give it a try. I thought the backcover summary of the film, though cliche, looked promising as an interesting story. I was wrong. As I watched the movie, I kept waiting for it to get better and for something to happen. However, it did not. I actually found the heroine Gilda to be quite unlikeable. It was very difficult for me to feel any sympathy for her or to relate to her in the slightest. The way the movie was filmed is choppy, and it jumped about quite a lot. I could tell it was attempting to be artsy, but did not have that effect. Characters were introduced, and then quickly snatched away not to be heard from again. Also, there is no real climactic moment. The scene with Chris Noth in the hotel room was disappointingly short, then it all just sort of ended and Gilda was back home again. The sad thing is that even though the basic story is cliche, it still could have made an excellent film. The story itself had so much potential, but the movie did not, in my opinion, reach that potential.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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Surprised at the good reviews
Added 8/9/2004
I didn't like this story at all. Mostly because the story is a very old one... seen many times before. And also the camera style annoyed me. Basically we follow Gilda as she deals with her fathers illness, death, and learning of his affair with another woman. Gilda is already obsessed with an actor played by Chris Noth, but becomes increasingly so as she discovers truths about her father and family.
The style of the story is very haphazzard with lots of cuts and clips. Made it hard for me to really feel for Gilda.
The material itself seemed like movie of the week territory and was boring and trite. I couldn't tell how old Gilda was supposed to be but she can't be too world weary if she can be so easily influenced by a movie star.
2 out of 4 people found this helpful.
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