Jude
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Actor: Christopher Eccleston, June Whitfield, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel GriffithsDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Latin (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Polygram USA Video
Movie Reviews of Jude
Movie Review: There are really no words to describe how amazing Jude is
Summary: 5 Stars
Jude is probably the most harrowing and draining films I have ever seen. Not only is the tragic story nearly too much to bear, the direction of Michael Winterbottom guides us through the characters emotions and hardships so that we empathize with them every step of the way, yet he doesn't take too much control. One of the ways he achieves this is by being as inatrusive as possible; he lets the camera capture the images without necessarilly guiding the audience. His style is very objective, showing you the raw emotions of the protagonists and what they go through while being unbiased. It's up to you to figure out if what the characters are doing is wrong or not. On another note, the acting is the best I've ever seen. I saw this movie before Kate Winslet did Titanic, and I was completely astounded by her talent. Winslet and Christopher Eccleston bare all for us to see. Apparently, during the shoot and after the shoot, Winslet ended up crying to let out all the emotion she had been tapping for the role. Eccleston would be obsessed with running- that was his way of letting the tension go. The fact that they themselves felt so much is an indication of everything they conveyed on the screen. The director may be great, but without these two the movie wouldn't be near to the same quality as it is. After seeing this movie, I watched as the credits rolled by. I couldn't move. I was mesmerized and drained by what I saw, and for weeks afterward I couldn't stop thinking about this movie. See this movie- own it. But be prepared for the greatest film experience thus far.
Summary of Jude
British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom didn't make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo, and this curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel is a good example. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who dreams of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom KeoghSimilar DVD Movies
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