Oleanna
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda, Scott Zigler, William H. Macy Director: David Mamet Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 89 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-09-16 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Oleanna
Movie Review: unappealing to me
Summary: 2 Stars
A storyline such as the one featured in Oleanna is *definitely* an acquired taste. There's no other way to look at it.
What you have is a college professor and his female student CONSTANTLY arguing with each other in dark and dreary college rooms throughout the entire movie. What are they arguing about, you ask? Several things.
One of them being the fact the female student is having a ton of trouble understanding and grasping the teachers lecture, and as a result, the girl believes her college course feels like a big waste of time.
She apparently takes it VERY personally that she doesn't seem to understand a single word that the teacher is saying during class time, which is what seemingly made her so upset that she felt the need to confront the teacher about it at the end of the day.
After a while (like over an hour of painfully overbearing bickering) the discussion finally turns to sexual harrassment and what the female student believes the professor did to her personally on one occasion (which prompted the girl to run out of the room screaming with people in the hallways hearing about what supposedly just took place). Talk about *extremely* awkward how the storyline went in *this* direction out of left field.
However, I'm glad it DID go in this direction. Now that a sexual harrassment case enters into the mix, the arguments that take place between the female student and her teacher are more heated and interesting.
I don't feel the storyline is nearly as clever or interesting as many viewers do. Other awkward moments took place such as the professors wife constantly calling him up on the phone because the two of them are planning to buy a house and are having some problems, and therefore interrupting the many, many discussions taking place between the professor and his female student. It got REALLY annoying when an hour later the frequent phone calls were *still* happening.
Sure, the ending is good (and a bit surprising) but it's not enough to save the film. Expect a lot of boredom over the course of its running time, but who knows- maybe you'll get something more worthwhile out of it than I did.