A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires. A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires. Why anyone would want to do a down beat Australian version of BELLE DE JOUR is hard to figure and why they are being encouraged after the event is even more so. File this one in the same bin as EVERLASTING SECRET FAMILY ‘ wants to be shocking & profound but ends up dumb/nasty.
The sensational elements mainly consist of Browning getting further undressed each time out and introduced to more humiliation. However the viewer is distracted by wondering how she manages to fit in her tertiary maths course, a day time job collating documents that you’d expect the machine in the same room to do, second job at the cafe, visiting a dried out case who has museli and gin for breakfast, getting picked up in bars and hiring on as a fetish object. Lets not start in on why she burns the hundred dollar note in sustained shot, like the opening with white coat shoving a tube down her throat. The photography is quite pro and cutting rare ‘ most scenes play without any inserts. As for the performers, our sympathy for the actors’ humiliation overrides any criticism of their performances.
French provocateur Catherine Breillat (‘Fat Girl,’ ‘Bluebeard’) continues her deconstruction of classic fairytales with her latest, ‘The Sleeping Beauty.’ Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, five finger shoes , Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three feckless fairy sisters discover this they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years. While in slumber, Anastasia comes of age through a series of vivid dreams, filled with charming princes, dwarves, gypsies and magical creatures. When she reawakens a fully-formed adolescent, she finds that in real life, happy endings are more elusive than in our fantasies.
Beautifully designed by Francois-Renaud Labarthe and photographed by the great Denis Lenoir (‘Carlos’), this constantly surprising, thought-provoking investigation of the female psyche reaffirms Breillat as one of the most inventive and risk-taking of contemporary French auteurs.
‘Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.’ With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre nightmare. The film is set in Australia but conceived in a high, contemporary European style: it is perpetually a surprise to realise the dialogue is in English and not French or Austrian-accented German.
It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, abercrombie sale , though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut.
Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has ‘presented’ this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Bu’uel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots.
Emily Browning gives a fierce and powerful performance, which should put her in the running for the festival’s best actress prize; she is Lucy, a student who takes part-time jobs to pay her tuition. These include medical experimentation ‘ an almost unwatchable, and crucially penetrative process in which a tube is inserted into her gullet ‘ and occasional prostitution. From here, Lucy is inducted into a niche industry: elderly gentlemen in tuxedos hold dinner parties and pay beautiful young women to wait on them, almost naked. Her success leads to a lucrative ‘sleeping beauty’ gig. She is drugged and these ageing, sagging sensualists can do whatever they wish to her naked body, except penetration. But Lucy becomes obsessed with knowing what is being done to her.
The movie’s emotional seriousness consists in Lucy’s unhappy backstory: it is not merely a need for cash that has led her to this, cheap coach purses , but a kind of trauma and self-hate. She evidently had a painful and complex relationship with an agoraphobic drug addict called Birdmann (Ewen Leslie); he was and is clearly in love with her and, on her many visits, her affectionate friendship is complicated by unexpressed guilt at not feeling the same way or wanting to sleep with him.
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All of this Browning suggests in her sulky pouts, her suppressed tears, her angry blankness: especially when talking to her alcoholic mother on the phone. It all leads to the grotesque situation of lying in a drugged stupor for men who wish to indulge in a necrophile-rape fantasy. The sleeping beauty of the original fable fainted on pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, an image of a moment’s daring combined with one of women’s work and torpid docility. Lucy is certainly doing women’s work: but what is she doing? Will she wake up to what is happening?
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The stomach-turning ” scenes themselves brutally show how unlovely is the ageing male body: and the penises here are pitifully unable even to attempt penetration. To some, the situation may call to mind Almodovar’s Talk to Her or perhaps the denouement of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle. But there is force and originality in Leigh’s work. Sleeping Beauty is an impressive technical display, though no more than the sum of its parts.
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Judging from the range of comments on Hugo Pool they seem to run the gamut. As a film, it’s not the kind of thing I’d usually watch, but it did contain some rather strange characters.
Alyssa Milano in between her stints as Tony Danza’s daughter in Who’s The Boss and one of the Halliwell sisters in Charmed was cast in the lead by director Robert Downey, Sr. She seems to have taken complete charge of the pool cleaning company that is a family business because dad (Malcolm McDowell) is reverting to being a teenager and mom (Cathy Moriarty) can’t control her gambling addiction. In fact she either has to come up with the money or sleep with the bookie.
Anyway somebody has to step up to the plate and Alyssa seems the only one likely to do so. She’s got a lot of customers out there in Nevada who want to use their swimming pools because of the heat and who need them cleaned.
Anyway on her route she meets Patrick Dempsey who even with Lou Gehrig’s disease is not about to miss out on all the good things in life. In fact one of only two parts of his anatomy are untouched by amytrophic lateral sclerosis, his brain and the love muscle. In fact the second has some remarkable staying power as he informs us.
Hugo Pool is the story of all these characters and the day they spend together. It’s an interesting tale and maybe had it been done in a more straightforward and romantic way, I might have liked the film better.
Still it’s not the fault of the cast who give some very good performances. Not mentioned by me before are Robert Downey, Jr. as an egotistical movie director and Sean Penn as a hitchhiker Malcolm McDowell picks up. Dig those sky blue shoes that Penn wears.
Hugo Pool might be your cup of tea, it wasn’t quite mine though. This is a little babe of a movie, the kind that comes on at 1 am and you can’t turn it off. Very inventive casting. McDowell and Penn are delightful as are Moriority and Milano. Then, you also have Downey, Jr, Dempsey, and Lewis (AND Chuck Barris). A zany cast of “characters”! I was impressed with how handily Milano carried herself and led this cast.
I’m generally not a fan of Robert Downey Senior’s movies. His characters tend to be cartoons and his episodic style means that we seem to be watching a series of “Saturday Night” comedy sketches. “Hugo Pool” has enough great actors in it that all the usual faults are turned into virtues. It also has a sweetness and heart that I haven’t seen in any other Downey film.
The film is dedicated to Downey’s wife and co-writer Laura Ernst. She died of the same terrible disease that the character played by Patrick Dempsey has. It is amazing how Downey shows the disease, but never lets us get sentimental over it or be afraid of it. It is just one more comic element in the film. I hope Laura coped with it as well as Patrick Dempsey’s character does.
The stand out performance here is by Malcolm McDowell. His portrayal of an old drug addict trying to kick the “Ding, Dang, Du” is charming and funny and sad all at once. The only unfortunate thing is that he’s only on screen for about 20 minutes.
I think the harsher criticisms of this film are by people who expected a more realistic, integrated film. If you willing to give Downey his quirky style, this film is sweet and delightful. I have to admit, as I watched the movie, my expectations haven’t been met. Most of all, I expected a plot. Since most movies have one, at least to some degree, the `average’ watcher tends to expect one here, too. But, it didn’t take me long, until I realized that this movie wasn’t the `average’ movie, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Watch Hugo Movie Online
In the first scene where Hugo’s father was introduced, I began to realize what the character of this movie is like. This perception strengthened as more and more people showed up and exhibited their unorthodox, quirky features. Alone the weird things like `a stranger is sleeping in somebody else’s truck, then the owner shows up, asks no questions and they both hit the road without even wasting a thought about what this is all about’ made me laugh. The dialogs between the characters and the spontaneous and almost unreasonable turns of the plot make the movie special. It is hard to explain to someone who hasn’t watched it.
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Read the other comments and you’ll find the opinions range from real bad to gorgeous. My advice is, be open-minded. This is not the average movie – in many aspects. Don’t have too high expectations and you won’t be disappointed, this movie is no blockbuster but it sure can be very entertaining if you give it a chance.
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