Book of Love
by Alan Brown (XI)
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Actor: Bryce Dallas Howard, Frances O'Connor (II), Gregory Smith, Joanna Adler, Simon BakerDirector: Alan Brown (XI)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sundance
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Movie Review: Close
Summary: 2 Stars
BOOK OF LOVE is one of those first time films that becomes an "Official Selection" for The Sundance Festival and then goes to DVD.Alan Brown wrote and directed his feature.His aspirations,according to the very short interview on the DVD,was to examine why "good people do bad things" and not make a judgment.Well...there was the first judgment right out of his mouth when he used the definite terms "good" and "bad".Secondly he tries to integrate the true life events surrounding the famous Mary Kay LeTourneau teacher-having-sex-with-underage-student tabloid with the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in the characters of Elaine and David who irresponsibly become over-involved with an underaged boy....None of this works in the least. IndieWIRE says that this film is "...Deliciously creepy." Yeah,they're right.At 83 minutes with that "indie looking film-look and that Indie soundtrack" this film tries way too hard to make points that simply do not connect.The characters do not work.The plot is disconnected and the talents of Frances O'Connor,Simon Baker,Gregory Smith and Bryce Dallas Howard....well,I think Simon Baker tries...kinda? I commend SUNDANCE and their vision.Some films that rise from SUNDANDCE are wonderful.This is not one of them.
The DVD packaging has "3+1/2 stars...The performances are terrific." from [...]! I rest my case.PASS....
You will know Frances O'Connor from Mansfield Park; Simon Baker from [[ASIN:B00003CY5S The Affair of the Necklace; Gregory Smith from The Patriot (Special Edition) and Bryce Dallas Howard from The Village (Widescreen Vista and [[ASIN:B000JLTR8Q Lady in the Water (Widescreen Edition)Series)]]. Everyone of these actors are at least 6 years older than the parts they are portraying.It looks like it!
Summary of Book of Love
Elaine and David seem to have the perfect marriage. But everything changes when they meet Chet, an innocent 15 year old boy full of youthful wonder. The threesome form an immediate bond, but a momentary lapse in judgment threatens to rupture the core of the trio's seemingly idyllic lives. A sensual tale of the complexity of marriage and desire, Book Of Love examines the choices we make in our daily lives-and the consequences that follow.Book of Love takes what could be a trashy premise and turns it into a strikingly honest examination of human messiness. Elaine (Frances O'Connor, Mansfield Park) and David (Simon Baker, The Ring Two) are a happy, successful couple who befriend a clever, athletic, but lonely 16 year-old boy named Chet (Gregory Smith, Everwood). But when Chet falls in love with Elaine, she responds and sleeps with him out of a mix of sympathy and desire. From here the story could have become overwrought melodrama, but the subtle script, perfectly-pitched performances, and lucid direction make Book of Love a portrait of smart, articulate people at the mercy of their least articulate emotions: lust, jealousy, anger, fear. Writer/director Alan Brown, making his debut feature film, even manages to weave in issues of goodness and the history of Cambodia without the movie ever feeling academic or didactic--on the contrary, the movie feels intimate and physical throughout, as concerned with the character's animal responses as with their struggle to remain rational. Also featuring Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village) and music from indie bands The Magnetic Fields and Clem Snide. --Bret Fetzer
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