WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

ridugout Artful? Maybe. But consider what went on to produce The Cement Garden:When it comes time to cast the script (that he has also co-written), the director chooses his son and his niece and two other youngsters. Put yourself in the girl's place: Your uncle is leading you through the filming of a sexually loaded screenplay (over which, as the director, he is hovering). It culminates with you nude in bed getting down to basics with your nude "brother" — and don't forget the director's young son confusedly wandering about dressed like a girl.That's what went on behind the "art." Was it good for the kids? I doubt it. Bunny-31 (6/26/00) liked The Cement Garden, but says that you shouldn't see it with family. Small wonder she felt that way. The four sibs may be actors, but they are no different from other kids trying to make sense of a highly sexualized world. Was it good for the director? Well, let me take a wild guess and say that children's welfare was not heavy on his mind and that there was more going on in his psyche than the art of it all.

m_deathbringer I saw this on Filmfour last night, and thought it was quite interesting. Do not wanna give away too much spoilers, but basically both parents in a family die, and the kids decide to make a go of it on their own. You are not given much hints as to the passage of time, but you can see the house, and the garden from the title, falling into greater disrepair. None of the kids have jobs, so you wonder how they are surviving. And through it all a series of bizarre events and things they would not get up to with their parents around happen. There are also a few elements of escapism, for instance cuts to grainy 1970's-looking cinecam film of the family in happier days at the seaside, and the (beautiful) main character (i will also add you get to see him topless and naked a lot..heh) reading a sci-fi story book, which is narrated out loud by the kind of voice that would have been used for old "Flash gordon" episodes. All else i can really say is SEE IT!Tally: Sex: 6/10 (quality not quantity!), Drugs: 0/10, Rock 'n roll: 2/10, Classic cars: 6/10 (see sex), Zombies: 0/10, Gore: 0/10

Rogelio Duron De La Garza I found this movie switching through channels and saw the whole thing,it´s a very interesting film,it portrays the life of a semi-rural and outsider family that starts to rot slowly,brother and sister love turns different from what everyone expects and when incest come by it´s taken the way it should,it´s a dark and sometimes funny film that talks about isolation and despair,it resembles to me to that movie "New Hemisphere Hotel" and "The Shining" see it and give your own comment. I´ll give it a good 10 on weird films.

nicksholl *A few spoilers, if you care*What sort of a man decides to write a book about a death within a family which sparks off a romance between two siblings. Surely only somebody disturbed. Because thats the feeling I got when I watched this weird film. It had no meaning, no moral and certainly nothing to relate to, well unless there are other people out there who feel attracted to their siblings from time to time.A family who live in an isolated suburb are attempting to cover their weed filled garden with cement, (well all but one who is in the bathroom doing other things!) when the father suffers from a stroke and dies. Being within the first five minutes it's hard to feel truly sorry for the family because you don't know any characters properly yet. The next 110 minutes consists of another death and an ongoing attempt to cover it up.For this reason I cannot recommend this at all as it is completely boring and will leave you wishing you'd rather not bothered. Some people have compared it to The Shining as it deals with what happens if you left.......alone in isolation, but I see a greater resemblance with Casino Royale to be frank: they're both crap.P.S - if anybody out there knows why the teenager in the family feels the urge to run outside in the rain 'commando style' half way through then please email me and let me know, its been bothering me for months.