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Claudine Spiteri,
Claudine Spiteri,
Chris Nightingale,
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Lech Majewski,
Lech Majewski
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: Kino
: Drama, Foreign, Romance
: 103 min.
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Artist, filmmaker, poet, stage director, and modern Renaissance man Lech Majewski adapts his critically acclaimed novel METAPHYSICS to the screen with this moving story of sensuality, love, death, regret, and redemption. When London art historian Claudine meets engineer Chris, it is love and lust at first sight. But their time together could be cut short because of a deadly illness. In the face of almost certain death, Claudine chooses to take her lover on a trip to Venice, where the art of Hieronymus Bosch becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery.
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| Putting the Kibbosh on Bosch
by talltale
August 16, 2008 - 11:09 AM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| On the basis of having sat through THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS and another Lech Majewski film "Gospel According to Harry," I'd have to rate Mr. Majewski as one of the worst little-seen filmmakers in the world. He takes big ideas -- here it's life, death, art and appetite -- and reduces them to freshman-level discourse (dumb freshmen, at that). "Gospel," at least, has good camerawork; "Garden," on the other hand, seems to revel in its home-made video look. Not a shot is in focus, and the sound is generally crummy. (And, yes, I realize that this is because the leading actor/character is taping everything that goes on, but why subject the poor, paying audience to such ugly, tiresome visuals.) While I admire Kino International for releasing the work of "smaller" filmmakers, Majewski's oeuvre approaches the infinitesimal. |
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