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- First reviewApril 2, 2009
- Last reviewDecember 3, 2011
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Misses in many ways
PostedDecember 3, 2011
oppinionatedinNYC
from New York, NY
This should not even have made it as made for televison--but maybe it would have. So many lines are just wrong and unnatural--as are the situations. Why would you go to your daughter's boarding school in the middle of the night, expecting to bring her home without having called ahead? Why, in a fairly grand house would the kitchen look like it belonged in the show, Shameless? Why is the pool in pretty disgusting shape. None of these details describe the ambience of the movie, but they are jarring.
The scene, short though it was, with the driver of the boat, was out of a high school play; the idea behind it seems integral, but it was handled badly.
So you have a name, and, although you don't know it, it is a name of realtor. Why not look the name up to get the phone number (which you want ), instead of driving all over Waikiki looking for him.
On and on--and the father is exactly what the kid called him...unbelievably so from minute one.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Wagner meets the movies
PostedJune 4, 2011
oppinionatedinNYC
from New York, NY
The first 10-15 minutes were particularly tough. But by the time the movie was half way done, it made sense in this scheme of life piece--it is not a drama, it is a sort of "thoughts" on life. Religious? no, it is fairly existential.
For those of us that grew up in the fifties, it could have been made up of our home movies, certainly of our real memories. I've never seen anything that captured that time of life so well, without the usual symbolic nostalgia.
But is not easy, and it is long.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Zimmerman des not belong at the Met--or in Opera
PostedApril 2, 2009
oppinionatedinNYC
from New York, NY
The singing is extraordinary. The backstage information is wonderful; I always thought that the conductor simply decided when he felt like entering the pit.
The production is terrible and divorces the music from the story. I doubt that Bellini wanted such a divorce...in fact, I imagine that he rather thought that the music was integral to the story. Furthermore, the play within a play that Zimmerman creates is impossible to follow, and trying to keep track of where you are in the story is distracting.
The MET is the best; HD maybe second best.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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