Arizona Dream [Region 2]
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Movie Reviews of Arizona Dream [Region 2]
Movie Review: Arizona Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Johnny Depp's First films and in my opinion one of his best. I love new actors when they are still uncertain about themselves. They give it all they have and still believe it may not be good enough. Well Johnny this is great! Hate to see your innocents fade. He's great as a seductive lover. Wish he would return to this type of movie!Movie Review: Come on US film companies
Summary: 5 Stars
What's so Da*n difficult about releasing this on DVD in The US? I know it doesn't have stuff blowing up in it, but come on.Movie Review: From NYC to Arizona !
Summary: 4 Stars
"Arizona dream" works out above all, as an admirable metaphor, an urban fable, aroused from a simple fact, when a hotshot in New York I tricked about a business in which his own uncle is involved.
Once he arrives to Arizona he will meet a very eccentric and out of context woman: This expected romance with the admirable Arizona's landscapes as big frame will ignite of surrealistic poetry.
Before you bet for this film, I think you should be aware about the particular aesthetics of this connoted filmmaker, whose non linearity and powerful dreamy style at the moment to tell a story will allow you to enjoy with major pleasure this emotive love story, hovered by sarcastic lines all the way through.
Movie Review: Extreme Excess of Absurdism and "Quirkiness"
Summary: 1 Stars
The Michael J. Pollard cameo is cute. Jerry Lewis is always interesting. Faye Dunaway still looks great. Johnny Depp gives an excellent performance, but it is another of his Edward Scissorshands distant characters. Lili Taylor also gives an excellent performance. Vincent Gallo's character is just too easy to do, so no points there.
So why the low rating? This is another of the current chic and trendy narratives that features "quirkiness" as a substitute for inquiry or reflection. There is no statement here. Things happen, and the virtue is in the nonsequitor and jarring juxtaposition of events. People of average ability should not be given big film budgets. And writers have to drill down a little further into the model novel "100 Years of Solitude" to find out that there is a *structure* underlying the mysteriousness of life depicted there.
But it so much easier to be a *fresh* director whose worldview is that all the "ism's" have been exhausted, and only absurdism reigns now. That is not correct, as movie-making itself is a form of "consumerism". And this film dishes out enough of the in-demand absurdism to satisfy the market, that's for sure.
As an antidote to this trend, read John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction" (available here at Amazon). It's not a stodgy right-wing Walt Disney thing at all. Gardner was a hard leftist, but one who had good theories about fiction and narrative.