Autumn Spring
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.39 You Save: $5.59 (56%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.80 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Canada
Movie Reviews of Autumn Spring
Movie Review: Lighting Lighting Lighting
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't really add anything to the first three reviews posted here; they're accurate and perceptive.I DO feel compelled to correct Chris Cox's contention that there is no technical excellency here -- in addition to wonderful performances from every member of the cast, a touching and delicate script, wonderful music, great sound and deft direction, I was astounded by the cinematography and especially the lighting. Every scene is beautifully lit, especially the outdoor scenes.
Perhaps Chris missed this because it is one aspect of filmmaking which is usually most apparent when poorly done.
Movie Review: Moviefan
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a real nice, funny,charm and smart movie about older people, older body does'nt mean old heart, between smile and smile people can think about this age and Frana's play show us
the movie could be light and predictible but movie has a message about respect to old pepole, really I garantee you'll enjoy this movie
Movie Review: One of the funniest movies ever
Summary: 5 Stars
When I saw this movie in Theatres i couldn't stop cracking up! The movie also teaches many things "in between the lines" as they say. I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to have a great laugh.Movie Review: Profound Pleasure
Summary: 5 Stars
An old man, young at heart, falls prey to tribulations and tragedies that threaten to age his spirit. A soulful tale told with comic mastery.Movie Review: "Autumn" Leaves 'Em Laughing
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a little surprised that no other Amazon reviewers have posted anything on this Czech charmer. This is definitely the kind of "in-theaters" sleeper that usually inspires a few "snap-up-the-DVD-the-moment-it's-released" reviews. Justifiably so in this case. When I took it in recently, on a friend's recommendation, there was applause over the closing credits, and for once, that kind of reaction didn't seem ludicrous to me.AUTUMN SPRING is a gentle comedy about one's man refusal to go gentle into that good night. A prankster, whose usually innocent practical jokes do no harm and keep the specter of debility and death at least somewhat at bay, Frantisek (Fanda) Hana does get in a bit over his head at times. When one of his jokes backfires, resulting in substantial financial loss, it strains his marriage to the more staid, long-suffering Stella. When a follow-up prank has him feigning his death and leaving Stella distraught, she feels compelled to seek divorce--after 44 years of marriage.
It's fairly easy to predict whether or not Stella will go through with the divorce. But the scene in which she reconsiders and he vows to mend his ways is so deftly acted, so understated, that its transcends cliche. Indeed everything about this movie is pitched just right. I hate to speak ill of my native land's film industry--and Hollywood CAN do some things right. But the last thing I would want to see is an American re-make of this quiet, and quietly funny little gem.
The one negative print review of this film took note that--unlike the life-affirming Fanda--the celebrated Czech actor,Vlastimil Brodsky (CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, JACOB THE LIAR), who portrayed him committed suicide shortly after the film was completed. There is a certain irony here, but that reviewer's claim that this tragic real-life turn of events "refutes" the point of the film is, at the very least, arguable. We don't know if Fanda would ever take his own life, or under what circumstances he might. What we do know is that, for as long as he is able and alert, he will continue to live his life to the fullest, and drive all around him crazy in doing so.