"With droll humor and touches of magical realism, Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) tells the story of a young couple who decide to take thirty days to explore their destinies. This whimsical experiment leads to some surprising revelations about the uncertainty of what the future holds."
"The emotionally wrenching story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised and nurtured as a human child in a 1970s experiment that started off as scientific curiosity but ended as profound human drama. James Marsh's follow up to his Oscar-winning Man On a Wire."
A sad but fascinating tale that reveals far more about the various vanities, prejudices, follies, fantasies, blind-spots, and sheer idiocies of human-kind than anything about chimps. Much like last year's "Secrets of the Tribe" this film is quite an indictment of the objectivity of "scientific study"....at least wherever humans have any role to play in it.
This is a very sad story with many awful twists and few moments of redemption. While it gives all kinds of ammunition to animal-rights folks, it's a bit of a hard view for animal-lovers.
There are four or five really good movies just waiting to pop out of this mish-mash of a sensory overload. Unfortunately, no one single one quite makes it out alive. It has some potential as the female Bourne Identity….except the premise is too over-the-top kooky for even that highly-forgiving-in-the-plausibility-department genre. There are shades of Kill Bill…but hey, that’s been done already…and much better. Ultimately it is a modern fractured fairy tale….and Cate Blanchett is the Big Bad Wolf/Witch to Saoirse Ronan’s Little Red Riding Hood. Unfortunately, the characters in this film are far less-dimensional than the average fairy-tale character. We even get a family of hippy caravaners…. in Morocco no less! They provide comic relief and also serve as blithe innocent foils to our worldly little coming-of-age assassin sprite. I fully expected to see a kitchen sink glide by at any moment.
Isabelle Huppert and Jeanne Moreau fans will be amply rewarded as both give delightfully nuanced performances.
This underrated little Truffaut gem is not so much a thriller or a mystery as it is a straightforward tale of obsession.
This is film that only Claude Miller could have made--full of subtlety and ambiguity.
Surrealism 101. Catherine is a Goddess!
Joyous delight sits down at table with human frailty, and the meal thoroughly satisfies!
I love, love, love Guy Madden!!