South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook channels Alfred Hitchcock for his English-language debut: a gothic, elegantly shot thriller/melodrama featuring Mia Wasikowska as teenage loner India Stoker, whose frosty relationship with mum Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) is soured even further after the death of her beloved father and subsequent arrival of her sinister, secretive Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode).
Brimming with awkward sexual tension and punctured by moments of vivid violence, Chan-wook’s stylish, macabre mystery boasts bravura performances from Kidman and Wasikowska, offering up one of cinema’s most bizarrely dysfunctional families.
Screening out of competition at this year’s festival, it certainly got folks talking in Park City.
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Jareth64
Jan 29th 2013, 12:24
Of course, in the real world, most porn addicts wouldn't bag someone like Johansson. At least I think. You'd more than likely end up with the 50 cigs a day 30 year old with 17 kids who looks like she's 55.
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Hadouken76
Jan 29th 2013, 18:45
Radcliffe in spectacles still looks like a 20-something Potter,
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itzelalvarado
Feb 2nd 2013, 0:56
Big snub. Emanuel and the truth about fishes starring Kaya Scodelario and Jessica Biel.
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MillerCrosses
Feb 2nd 2013, 20:30
I truly cannot give a s**t when people say Radcliffe is good in a movie, it is physically impossible.
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dbuchanan
Feb 12th 2013, 3:12
Fruitvale won the Grand Jury Prize and should definitely be number one; i was there in the theater during the first showing of it and everybody was in tears.
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