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Kyle McCulloch,
Kyle McCulloch,
Gosia Dobrowolska,
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Guy Maddin,
Guy Maddin,
Noam Gonick
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: Not Rated
: Zeitgeist Films
: Comedies, Cult, Drama, Independent, Suspense/Thriller, Experimental/Avant-Garde, Canada
: 100 min.
: English
: English
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Careful takes place in the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad, where everyone speaks in whispers for fear of starting an avalanche. This self-inflicted noise control to the overall suppression of emotions and impulses. Entering this rarefied atmosphere is aspiring butler Brent Neale. Remaining as silent as his companions, Neale bears witness to all sorts of muted aberrations, from incest to surreptitious suicide. Director Guy Maddin stages Careful in the manner of an early German Expressionistic talkie, replete with subtitles, hand-tinted color sequences, heavy-handed symbolism and a "popping" soundtrack. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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| my favorite little known gem
by mattunder
June 14, 2006 - 1:59 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| I have watched it three times now. I agree that some of Maddin's other work is pretty but boring, but this film is never boring. Bizarre to the extreme but not laugh out loud funny. It's inpiring to see what he did with what was probably a very small budget. I enjoyed it even more than "The Saddest Music in the World". Not to be missed. |
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by amym
June 23, 2004 - 11:21 AM PDT
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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I liked Careful, because it is like being able to watch the dream somone else is dreaming. It's strange and other worldly, beautiful and grotesque, absurd but like the dream world, oddly connects on a deeper level.
Wonderful images, terrible acting which is perhaps intentional, perhaps not. Original, indescribable, fantastic.
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by jaimetout
April 16, 2004 - 3:22 PM PDT
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3 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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| Why is it that the word "pretentious" gets bandied about so often whenever someone doesn't like something that other people find brilliant? Just say you don't like it (or don't get it). This film is not pretentious; it's absurd. You'd think that's a crime these days. Absurdity shows us new ways of looking at reality, rather than slavishly attempting to reproduce it. Absurd films will get my vote every time, because a film that tries to be "realistic" fails--from the very outset--to deal with the fact that situations and images in films are inherently not real--and that includes documentaries. One needs only to take a look at Michael Moore's oeuvre to discover to what extent films that deal with "reality" become quite fictional when filtered through the subjective consciousness of a single human being. I'd rather see a film that revels in subjectivity: like this one. But back to this movie in particular: Guy Maddin, in this film as in all his others, returns cinema to an earlier stage in its development at which things like images and a director's personality were still important, even in popular cinema. There are plenty of Freud jokes, which are so painfully obvious that the humor becomes more about how funny obviousness can be than about any serious reflection on Freudian concepts. |
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