ETERNAL SUMMER
by Leste Chen
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Actor: n/aDirector: Leste Chen
Brand: Wolfe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Chinese (Original Language)
Format: Color, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: PICTURE THIS HO
Movie Reviews of ETERNAL SUMMER
Movie Review: Poignant menage a trois
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an brilliant, absolutely beautiful film. It has been described, here and elsewhere, as gorgeous, delicate, exquisitely touching, poignant, affecting, and sublime; I echo and add to those sentiments as well. The screenplay is intelligent and the direction, photography, music, editing, and the exceptional and high calibre of acting bring this film into the category of true excellence.
I won't re-iterate the plot or sketch the principal characters, as this has been done amply by other reviewers, but I would like to add the movie gives generous room for character development, arriving at a fully rounded, vibrantly coloured portrayal of each individual lead. The characters, the relationships are multi-layered, and like peering through several panes of coloured glass, we can see certain nuances, emotional intensities and thoughts exposed just below the surface. The actors are absolutely wonderful in their roles, and the sense that these are people who have known each other for a long time and can gauge each other is readily apparent. The camera work is incisive, introspective, showing stolen glances, hidden insecurities, suppressed silences, fleeting thoughts, emotional pangs, and unrequited love -- teenage angst, all reflected in the smallest of gestures, haunted faces and turbulent eyes. Like music, where the spaces between the notes have as much import as the notes themselves, the quiet scenes, the silent passages, most often carry the most impact and take the film to greater emotional depths and searing heights.
As in many great stories the movie finishes, not with a too neat dovetailing of all the story threads, but with a, somewhat, open end. I think it is part of our nature to want completion, to end a cycle neatly, to have a dissonance turn into a final consonant chord. Life doesn't always afford such neat solutions so we invent fiction. But it is precisely that which makes the story linger in our minds. We hunger for resolution. It haunts us. It haunts me. I've watched the film several times now and come to the same teary film conclusion, and my mind begins it's own invention. I pick up the loose threads and continue on my own.
This film has become a favourite of mine into which I occasionally dip from time to time. I absolutely love it.
Summary of ETERNAL SUMMER
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