Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Cortechba Overrated

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Jumbo I like Michael Winterbottom. It's probably cheap to call this pretentious but it is about a filmmaker hanging around and sometimes sleeping with very beautiful women, writing a film about the Murder of the girl in the film, who has lots of interviews which producers and financiers in which he talks about what he's trying to say in the film and the structure of the film with is based on Dante's Inferno (one of Dante's books at least). I'll call it self reflexive I don't know but I'm gonna say it's about Michael Winterbottooms life and divorce (it can't be another film about Steve Coogans life). The film director (Bruhl) makes reference to him needing a hit after his last film flopped... I wondered which film that was (in real life), because I didn't think any of Winterbottoms films made money. I've always wondered how he got films funded. I like his films a lot, but I just thought it was like funding Derek Jarman, you're always gonna lose money but you'd feel good about it. Like you've done something worthwhile, but not as gay maybe. I mean I didn't think he felt pressure to make money.....I don't think this deserved to be as derided as it was. i was impressed with the accuracy to the real life case. The insanely dislikable daily mail columnist is Nick Pisa, who is insanely dislikable..The Police chief really reminded me of the actual chief and so did a lot of the cast. A lot of the seemingly small events are based on real events and are accurately portrayed. And despite me calling it pretentious I do like the self reflexive nature of this film. I think it worked and I enjoyed it more afterwards thinking about the three act structure (they talk about it in the movie) and its resolution and Cara being a sort or adopted daughter.This would be a great film to talk about over a meal, because it has depth and because it will so obviously polarise opinion, getting under some people's skin and feeling painfully obvious and other people clicking with it.I think with a semi autobiographical film like this, you're more likely to get away with a Woody Allen style approach (I.e. Comedy) and not be called pretentious and Winterbottom has done this before with 'The Trip' and 'A Cock and blah blah' and people found it easier to stomach. When you go later Woody Allen's serious stuff, you upset people. This is 'Interiors' but about a real life murder. So I can see it's pretty difficult for people to separate the art from the fact.I clicked though!

Ingvar Kyi This review contains spoilers, well, sort of.. Right from the beginning we get a lot of clues, like Simone tells Thomas, 'You can't tell the truth, unless you make it a fiction', but Thomas doesn't seem to be able to separate truth from fiction completely. And a movie about a movie is a sure sign of metaphor, therefore plot events and timeline shouldn't be taken literally, especially in a dream about someone else's dreamwork. The more we learn about Thomas, the more we realize that he, rather unwittingly, is making a movie about his estranged daughter. He also believes that there is no such a thing as real truth of justice (only interpretation of it). While his antagonist Edoardo thinks that art has to provide answers to the questions that life asks; there is the truth and there is the rest. There many symbols to decipher, for instance, pairs and juxtapositions: Jessica and Elizabeth, Simone and Melanie, Joseph and Cedric, Thomas and Edoardo; Dante's La Vita Nuova vs. Divine Comedy; Thomas' daughter Bea and Dante's Beatrice; mountains vs. sea, apartments vs. hotels, Tuscany vs. Ravenna, etc. There is much more to the film than just a story of an internationally acclaimed director spiraling down the road of loneliness, gloom and despair as the result of his failure to cope with personal and creative life issues. Also, there is a heavy hint that the murder of Jessica was either ritualistic or conspiratorial, involving many participants, and we'll never be able to learn the true motives or reconstruct the chain of events that led to it, let alone see justice administered. So, what's the point then? And here it is in a nutshell: reality is what we make by constantly construing actual and imaginative objects and meanings, – notions that morph into one another. And Thomas chooses to see the bright side of things - light, as opposed to darkness, love, as opposed to hate, life, as opposed to death, simple, as opposed to complicated..

Prismark10 Prolific filmmaker Michael Winterbottom takes meta-textual approach of the Amanda Knox murder saga in The Face of an Angel. An American student in Italy has been accused of murdering her English roommate with her Italian boyfriend which has caused a media frenzy. There is a lot of speculation based on circumstantial evidence gathered by incompetent police.Thomas (Daniel Brühl) a filmmaker on a downward spiral both professionally and in his personal life is sent to Siena, Italy to observe the trial as material for a true life crime thriller. He is aided by a Rome based American journalist Simone (Kate Beckinsale) who provides him with expert background information.Thomas also meets another international student who also works as a bartender, Melanie (Cara Delevingne) who shows him the sordid side of Siena. They go to parties, score drugs and he has visions fuelled by this messy, fuzzy life as well as his interest in Dante's The Divine Comedy.Whereas other tabloid journalists are just interested in sex and sleaze as a route to make money rather then finding out the truth of this murder case, Thomas wants to develop a script for a medieval morality play.The film starts off interestingly enough, Thomas is the stranger in town intending to do the victim justice rather than chase a meal ticket but the film gets less involving as the character of Thomas gets lost in Siena. Winterbottom might be too self righteous here about the media but the film still arouses curiosity.

sanddollar-08250 I never write reviews, but actually signed on to this site to post a review after watching this movie. I feel like I just wasted two hours of my life. It takes a lot for me to not like a movie... I can usually find something to like....but not with this movie. I thought this movie would be about the story of the murder. It's not. It's really a movie about the writer's experiences while researching this murder. The whole movie is a bumbling mess, focused more on the writer's life, than on the actual murder case. It should not be advertised as being about the murder. It's really like this writer used this story as a platform to write a story about his own life, which by the way, is not interesting enough to carry a movie. To make it even worse, the very few moments they recreate the trial....it's all spoken in Italian with no translation.