| Posted by: DaMovieMan at February 24, 2008, 3:04 am | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | I just saw the film tonight. Simply put, it's amazing. Extraordinary style and direction, great music, great performances, extremely powerful scenes, beautiful women, very funny at times and great intermingling of various themes including the power of imagination and memory and digging deep to find the "human inside you". Hard to watch, however, meaning it has very little replay value as far as the story is concerned (studying its technique is a different story), some scenes drag by just a tad and the presence of Miramax was felt which makes me understand why it wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Film. Extremely minor complaints compared to what it has going for it. As for its nominations, It shouldn't win anything apart from Film Editing and Directing. Then again, the Directing category this year is immensly hard to judge as to who deserves it most because you have Anderson and the Coens with spectacularly directed films. If i was forced to put them in order it would be, 1. Anderson 2. Schnabel 3. ... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Moviefan1234 at January 18, 2008, 5:20 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | This looks excellent, and we can only imagine if they could have gotten Depp for the lead role. It would have been his Oscar winning role, no doubt. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: JCPhoenix at January 16, 2008, 10:00 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | I saw it last night and was pretty blown away by it... THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY is moving without being overly sentimental and an extraordinary film, especially with the long POV shots that place you inside Jean-Dominique Bauby's terrifying incapacitated state and some really interesting (and almost experimental) cinematography. Flashes of stunning imagery also permeate the film, even simple, ordinary things like a shot of hair flying in the wind or the metaphorical imagery employed throughout the film and in the end credits. Really just an incredible film. If there's a fault to be found in the film it's perhaps that some parts feel repetitive (you'll see what I mean) but this isn't really a fault - it's showing how uncomfortably repetitive and hard it was for Bauby to communicate. It makes you wait alongside Bauby which frustrates you but that's the exact intention of the film. But really, this is a masterpiece. 9/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: cl0n3b4by at January 4, 2008, 2:25 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | I would have enjoyed this movie more if it wasn't for the fact Julian Schnabel wasn't a pretentious prick to me. Still was a good movie:P | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Ronaldinho at January 4, 2008, 1:58 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | This is an amazing film. I only I wish I liked it more. It's dazzling and beautiful. It's incredibly powerful. It has several emotionally wrenching scenes. But it felt, at times, a little like eating broccoli. It's a really, really good film. Particularly if the art of filmmaking interests you, you simply have to see it. But, as you might guess from the subject matter, it's not exactly more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 9/10 ... but you've been warned. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: BakeTheMooCow at January 4, 2008, 4:10 am | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | Just about every scene, and the ones between the father and son in particular, are devastating punches to the gut. Marie-Josée Croze, Mathieu Amalric and Max von Sydow are all spectacular and I'm convinced that every woman in France is nothing short of stunning. If the film has faults, it's that the character of Ilese isn't developed and feels perfunctory, and there's no real sense of passage of time. Only after reading up on the film afterward did I realize that it took him an year to write the book. But a few minor quibbles aside, it's as harrowing and humbling and extraordinary as a movie can get. I hope people still catch it while it's playing in theaters. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Lazy Boy at November 30, 2007, 1:15 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | Yeah, I'll probably be the only one having a review up, at least for a while or until some more join in and see it. A lot of hurdles this film has (being w/subtitles automatically discounts it as "boring" in a lot of people's minds) but it's not as much a turn off for the mass public as one would think. It's got a big name producer in Kathleen Kennedy, a name associated with crowd pleasing favorite Spielberg, so they have the right tools to market this to a large audience. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SamSanchez at November 29, 2007, 9:49 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | Is this really the first post about this? I haven't seen it, but it definitely intrigued me. I should be checking it out sometime | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Lazy Boy at November 29, 2007, 9:49 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | Directed by Julian Schnabel Written by Ronald Harwood Plot outline: Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. Starring: Mathieu Almaric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jose Crozee, Max von Sydow Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language. Review: The "truly remarkable true story" biopic has been a staple of cinema for several years, but most of the time, the content itself is more awe-inspiring than the actual presentation. Earlier this summer, I reviewed La Vie en Rose, a pretty substandard biopic with a stunning lead performance that lifted and carried the film without the exact opposite even happening. Sometimes, the common man is of more interest to me than s... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Lazy Boy at November 29, 2007, 9:45 pm | | Topic: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Forum: JoBlo | | Directed by Julian Schnabel Written by Ronald Harwood Plot outline: Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. Starring: Mathieu Almaric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jose Crozee, Max von Sydow Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language. Review: The "truly remarkable true story" biopic has been a staple of cinema for several years, but most of the time, the content itself is more awe-inspiring than the actual presentation. Earlier this summer, I reviewed La Vie en Rose, a pretty substandard biopic with a stunning lead performance that lifted and carried the film without the exact opposite even happening. Sometimes, the common man is of more interest to me than s... | | Read Entire Entry |
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