Cassandra's Dream
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Actor: Colin Farrell, Ewan MacgregorBrand: Wellspring Media INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 81064
Studio: Weinstein Company
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- Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell star as working brothers whose dreams of better lives leads to desperation, greed and deadly betrayal. When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place them in a financial bind, a rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton) offers them an out in exchange for committing murder. Featuring gripping performances from an all-star cast; "this family tragedy puts us
Movie Reviews of Cassandra's Dream
Movie Review: A Good Little Film...
Summary: 5 Stars
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As most will know, Allen Konigsberg (`Woody Allen') doesn't make big-budget blockbusters.
His films are `little' ensemble casts (usually with distinctive actors), virtually no more than filmed stage plays against attractive backdrops.
Which leaves his dialogue and topoi.
Allen's dialogue isn't as contrived nor stilted as that of David Mamet or Harold Pinter.
Which leaves Allen's preoccupation with recurrent themes of passion, death, and conscience. (Merriam-Webster's definition of `conscience' is so spot-on as to be quote-worthy: `the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good'--damn! that's good.)
Some might say that Allen's 2007 film Cassandra's Dream is merely a repackaging of his 2005 Match Point--which was a repackaging of his 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors; and the rebuttal would be, `well--yes and no'.
It is true that in recent years Allen has cinematically abandoned the backdrop of New York City and its environs for that of London and the English countryside.
And it is true that all three films deal with passion, death, and conscience.
But we must grant that especially in the two recent films Allen's cinematic expression of youthful passion is evermore believably compelling; and in Cassandra's Dream Allen's portrayal of conscience is extremely well-drawn.
Cassandra's Dream is moved along by a very good Anglo-Irish ensemble cast including Colin Farrell, John Benfield, Phil Davis, Sally Hawkins, and the brilliant Tom Wilkinson.
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Match Point
Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Summary of Cassandra's Dream
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