Heavenly Creatures
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Movie Reviews of Heavenly Creatures
Movie Review: Peter Jackson's Best Film
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't noticed, this guy knows how to make a movie. This is his best, in this reviewer's humble opinion. It will knock you out. The performances are wonderful, as is the direction and the art design. Jackson really gives you something to look at.Heavenly Creatures is based on a true story of two teenage girls who murder one of the girl's mother. The two girls share a special closeness - too close for their parents who fear lesbianism and endeavor to keep the girls apart.
In order to depict the girls' special relationship, Jackson uses his cinematic magic to create another world where only they are real and everyone else is an animated statue. These scenes are truly dazzling and make this film a must for true fans of great cinema.
Movie Review: The Extra Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
As we all know, "Heavenly Creatures" is a brilliant and chilling film. Having said that, I am here to describe the extra ten minutes in this 'uncut' version of the film. Let me first say this: this is not uncut in a ratings-board-controversy sense of the word. This cut of the film is not any more sexually or violently graphic than the original cut. What, then, makes up the new 10 minutes? Not very much. A little more dialogue here, a newly restored subplot there...it's essentially "Heavenly Creatures" as you already know it, except for with a few trite deleted scenes thrown in. This is still the preferable DVD of this film to own, as it is in widescreen, but the changes to the film will be mildly unnerving to the long-time fan.Movie Review: Heavenly
Summary: 5 Stars
Kate Winslet stars. Peter Jackson directed. And it turns out that the woman Winslet portrays, Juliet Hulme, grew up to be fiction writer Anne Perry. In 1950s New Zealand two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, are drawn together by a fantasy world they create. The movie includes claymation of the fantasy world. The girls become close friends and, over the course of two years, eventually lovers. They continue seeing each other after their families forbid it and step in to separate them. They eventually murder Pauline's mother to prevent the separation. The movie ends there, but they were sentenced to prison and served five years. It's an amazing movie, and shows how obsessive relationship can get out of hand.Movie Review: Peter Jackson was Brilliant prior to LOTR! Wow!!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a shock it was when I learned Peter Jackson of LOTR directed this movie!This is a very rare film indeed...it has never left my mind even after so many years. That is quite a feat when you consider the amount of "stories" we see.
Others have explained the story. I can only agree it is a movie that will "stick to your ribs" as mother used to say! I more than highly recommend it. Trust me on this one and I am not easily impressed by "hollywood" nit-wits.
I thought Jackson was wonderful with LOTR but I have an even higher respect now that I know he helmed Heavenly Creatures (one of my very favorites!). Not to forget the huge talents of his partner in crime FRAN WALSH.
Movie Review: Heavenly Creatures
Summary: 5 Stars
An unsettling, thoroughly absorbing drama based on a real-life crime, "Creatures" is the magnificent brainchild of then-horror-movie director Jackson ("Lord of the Rings"), who brings sensitivity and sincere human feeling to this tragic story of love and murder. Winslet and Lynskey have an intense, wholly credible rapport, playing highly intelligent girls (one of whom, the brash Juliet, grew up to become mystery novelist Anne Perry!) whose fully enmeshed intimacy takes them farther and farther from reality. Beautifully photographed, splendidly acted, and imaginatively directed, "Creatures" burrows under your skin in a lasting way.