This film was as good as everyone (yep, even the critics) said it was.
Engrossing tale and life lessons based on the Dylan mythology/story. Amazing performances by everyone that showed up in this film, and there were a lot of familiar faces here. I enjoyed the music, the stories. I was entertained and moved. The only thing I didn’t like about the film was being reminded how great Heath Ledger was as an actor and knowing I won’t be able to see him be brilliant like this again.
I want to curl up with this film again on a rainy afternoon. And luckily there have been plenty of those.
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Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.
Cate Blanchett plays a recovering heroin addict surrounded by dysfunction in this character study. As she struggles to move on and start a business partnership the past slams into her right and left. She can’t get a loan because of her past addiction and the crimes associated with it. She can’t get her mother’s exboyfriend to stop shooting up and ends up scoring for him. Her brother is a meth dealer. And all she really wants is to be part owner of a video store. Doesn’t seem like much to ask. You really feel for her.
Hugo Weaving is an actor that has taken chances with almost every role. Here he plays a heroin addict that used to be a rugby champion in Australia. He has also played an “agent”, a cross dresser, an elf, and voiced many animated characters through the years. It has to be great as an actor to be able to play such a wide variety of characters. I am always interested in what he might do next. It looks like he will be in The Wolfman in 2009.
This film was sad and sometimes hard to watch as you knew things weren’t going to go well, but it is worth it. Moves slow sometimes, but great characters make up for it.
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Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
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A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.
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Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
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A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband’s death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
Being lonely and unpleasant can lead to complete disillusionment.
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A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new “friend” also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.
Glad I don’t fly.
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A feud develops between two air traffic controllers: one cocky and determined while the other is restrained and laidback, which inevitably affects their lives.
