| disturbing and amusing |
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| written by rarcher |
August 6, 2003 - 8:07 AM PDT |
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2 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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i quite liked this film
personally, i think this one disturbed me more than any of his other films
and that's part of what i enjoyed
the way these men explore fetishism and break taboos...
sort of reminds me a bit of the movie happiness |
| Pachinko and Sex |
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| written by TAubuchon |
May 14, 2002 - 10:51 AM PDT |
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8 out of 10 members found this review helpful
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| This is definitely the most erotic of Greenaway films. Luckily Greenaway's humor balanced the darker side of his characters' fantasies. His love of numbers and layering are present throughout the film, which is beautiful, yet controversial.In a very Greenaway's device, when the father acquires eight and 1/2 pachinko parlors at someone else's shame and does not head the advice to sell it, his life is unwittingly changed. When his wife suddenly dies, his son Storey comes back from Kyoto where he has been running the pachinko parlors, to help him through his grief, in most unorthodox ways. Soon they are off to Kyoto, where they begin to collect their harem of women, 8 and 1/2. The story quickly moves between men's fantasy and women's desires and strangely enough, just about, everyone gets what they wanted in the end.This is a well made and well acted film, however it is not for everyone. John Standing, Vivian Wu and Toni Collete all give outstanding performances. |
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