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Heavenly Creatures
An all-time favourite that never lets me down, yet I don’t know what to say about it. It’s the ultimate romance-gone-too-far-gone-sour movie. I don’t think Kate Winslet has ever been better; I almost want to say the same for director Peter Jackson; and Melanie Lynskey is great in everything she does. The combo of Peter Dasent’s score and Mario Lanza songs make for one of the best soundtracks, and the visual effects, while a little on the low budget side, are somehow perfect for the young girls’ fantasy world. I don’t think beautiful and disturbing have ever been so close.
March 25th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
[...] The first thing to mention is how slow the movie is to actually get to Terabithia itself – but like so many things that could be seen as a bad thing in this movie, I’m quick to say, this is slow starting in the best way possible. When the visuals of the kids’ imaginary world do finally start to creep in, the movie I was most reminded was, funnily enough considering the Weta connection, a Peter Jackson film, the otherwise entirely different Heavenly Creatures – AnnaSophia Robb even sounds strangely like Kate Winslet’s Juliet as she tells Jesse, asked which desk belongs to the school bully, “It’s the one with dried up blood and dusty old bones,” – but the fantasy elements here are even more subtle than those in that movie. [...]
May 9th, 2007 at 2:22 am
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