The Singing Forest

2003 "Do you believe in reincarnation?"
2| 1h12m| NR| en
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A tragic tale of two lovers from the holocaust. Fate tore them apart, destiny brought them together.

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A.J. Productions

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Also starring Aage Winther-Jørgensen

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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Cristian Morado I recently saw this film and really enjoyed it. The story is good and definitely worthy of a remake for large mass consumption. The themes of reincarnation and gays in the holocaust, within other themes, are explored here. I think the filmmaker did a good job with whatever the low budget he was dealing with, but I do think in the same hands with a larger budget and star this story could really have an impact because it touches on so many human aspects of topics that are not touched upon during the holocaust massacre. After seeing the film twice, the story is told from Christophers point of view and Im wondering if the character, we know he's in a deep depression, is not borderline bi polar or with multiple personalities or some mental illness since we see a lot of his reality and what may very well be fantasy being mixed in his own perception of reality. Just something to think about. I also love the performance by Craig Pinkston - the Ben character. I looked him up here but I could not find any other movies by him. Does anyone know if he has done anything else. I think he's very talent and carried his role well and would like to see him in other film if they are out there.
Monica Latorraca If you believe in reincarnation, I highly recommend this film. It is very strange, but poetic. I bought the movie off the internet because I was told the director is from here. In as much as the film can be very off putting...it has lots of twist and turns that may or may not resolve itself, it is thought provoking. The main actor is very handsome and electric. I like film that deal with the sole and transcendence of where it might go after death. What happens when you love someone so much and cant let go? Those are all questions that we cant answer but are nonetheless worth discussing. I specially liked the music at the end. I will keep this copy for one to try to decipher the filmmakers thoughts behind this idea.
torietysonla Many people on this site have trashed this movie. I rented it the other day and found it to be very original, entertaining and amusing. Rarely do we see anything original today. The studios have managed to numb and dummify audiences as we see practically the same thing, with little distortions, here an there. How many awful romantic movies can we tolerate of the same thing. This one, at least, is different. I applaud the filmmaker for coming up with such a mystical premise. I loved the idea of reincarnation and for those who believe in it, you will find this picture quite mystical. It is indeed oddly gripping and the director has taken a several subject matters and made them his.Stylish and artful, this film by Jorge Ameer pulls its viewers into a free associative ride that incorporates two separate eras, or at least three, separate points of view and references that move fluidly between people we think we are and the people we might have been in earlier lifetimes.Symbolism cheerfully weaves its way throughout this narrative in ways that touch on wildly free associative archetypes. Duets evolve into trios, trios devolve into duets, and we are warned, that human memories are so subjective that truth is, by definition, variable and intensely personal.The Singing Forest opens with some of the most daring segues in the history of film-making. Tender scenes of gay male on male affection during the Weimar Republic alternate with views from emaciated corpses in the death camps at Auschwitz. Time streams forward, backwards and sideways. Some scenes evoke a Dada-is-tic revival of Alfred Hitchcock. Nazi storm troopers roaring down a staircase, dragging the almost emaciated corpse off to be tortured. These alternate with images of modern day healthy bodies that are bound and bleeding, a forecast of emaciated deaths to come. From there, the plot spins and then thickens around the dynamic of a modern day southern California family which, while hipper and more evolved than most, is ill equipped for the conflicting loyalties that evolve when resurrected soul-mates are reunited.During the course of this film, tow swift-flowing streams of consciousness run constantly sometimes in different directions. Good-looking actors deftly switch in and out of realities in patterns that are sometimes synchronized and sometimes not. Like bodies swimming up from great watery depths, the two (extremely good looking) protagonist rediscover the love that bound them together during their tragically truncated earlier lives.
Jon There is nothing good to say about this. It is simply the worst movie I have ever seen. It simply feels like a project that was dreamed up, written, and shot in 10 days with the director's friends cast uncomfortably as actors.This isn't a "love to hate it" film like Ed Wood's wild weirdness. This is more on the level of a high school driver training safety film. It is a car wreck.Poor sound makes the dialogue almost unintelligible, poor lighting makes characters almost invisible. The 15 minutes worth of story in this hour-long film is a ghastly mess, and the ending is absolutely the most tasteless, stupid, and absurd I've seen in any movie, period.Schlock like this gives gay cinema a bad name.