Limbo
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Movie Reviews of Limbo
Movie Review: Notch another one up for Sayles
Summary: 5 Stars
Limbo people. The title is Limbo.Movie Review: Limbo- Suspended in an intermediate place or state.
Summary: 4 Stars
Limbo is at first not terribly unlike the first acts of A Perfect Storm. It explores life on the shores of a small Alaskan town getting to know the hopes and dreams of its people trying to make a living of the fat of the land and fish in the waters. The gathering place in the village is a local bar where regulars, including Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, meet to discuss their economic struggles and maybe get lucky. The similarities to A Perfect Storm don't end there. The story turns on what promises to be an uneventful trip on a fishing boat into a struggle for three people to survive against nature. Limbo is really people trying to make connections and cope with the shortcomings of the hand they have been dealt in life. But one of the boat's passengers has a secret that gets everyone into a lot of trouble with some drug dealers and the film suddenly takes on a whole new dynamic. Eventually this leads to a moment of great suspense. I must admit my reason for liking this film rests entirely on the film's finale which evoked one of the strongest audience reactions I have ever experienced. Many in the audience gasped, others were stunned and outraged, some laughed. It was a good ending and I think it was the best way it could have ended. But I don't know that I would have enjoyed it nearly as much without being able to listen to everyone else react to it. Because so much of your opinion of Limbo will ultimately depend upon how you deal with the conclusion, see it at your own risk. I can only safely recommend this film to people who enjoy slower paced character films like Atom Egoyan's, The Sweet Hereafter.Movie Review: Danger is inside and outside but not really human
Summary: 4 Stars
A strange little film about the frontier that has always fascinated Americans: the sea, nature, the winter, and many other things that come along when you are isolated and lost in the big vast chasm this natural wilderness may look like along the coast of the state of Washington. To give come depth to the story, the film builds on the characters. A mother, singer by profession, drifter by family life, and her daughter, lost and unstructured by that life of no stability since any man has to be abandoned as fast as possible. Then the film throws in her/their legs a divorced middle aged man who was a fisherman but isn't anymore, who would like to have a peaceful life but cannot avoid being dragged into some shadowy and shady business by a half brother of his. Then the rest is details. The scenery is beautiful though not overused. The weather is chilly and we can feel it perfectly well. The anxiety, the fear, the panic now and then are perfectly present and lively. The daughter what's more is fantasizing some kind of diary left behind by some previous runaway abandoned escapee of some sort. The film though tries to stick to the rhythm of that life when it is stranded like this in no place nowhere and it is rather slow, maybe too slow. But apart from that it is a film you have to let yourself slip into without any resistance, including to the accent of this northern region of the US, somewhere between Seattle and Vancouver.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Movie Review: SOMETHING ELSE
Summary: 4 Stars
Limbo is a fascinating movie - no Hollywood stuff, but independent film-making of very high quality. Most of all I like the two main characters played by David Strathairn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The way they get to know each other is very tender, very convincing, and also funny at times. I particularly like the scene in the bar when she comes to his table after singing a song, and they start revealing little bits about themselves to each other - that's fascinating acting, and fascinating dialogue too.
As for the much-disputed ending - oh well, I don't want to give away too much, but director/writer/editor John Sayles says in his DVD commentary (highly recommended) that it was the only ending that seemed appropriate to him, and maybe he's right...
Movie Review: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio sings a Tom Waits song...what else do you need to know?
Summary: 4 Stars
It's all there in my title...Mary Elizabeth is enough for me to watch this film, but for her to be singing an old classic Tom Waits song...(You'll have to watch it to find out which one)...so burst out of your Winnabago and get this film. THis DVD has the most interesting director's commentary I've heard yet. It makes you realize just what a collaboration a film really is, and also how each scene and each characters moods, motivations and actions are telling one story. This film ends on a profound plane. It puzzles some people who have seen it, but what it is doing is ending where the story really ends...not where the action ends. Thus, the ending tells us what the film has been about all along. Great stuff, and more films should have this intent.