The Life (Unrated Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Life (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Is there a point to this movie?
Summary: 1 Stars
Every store should have a DVD shredder for movies that suck. Rental stores should offer refund upon return of this movie and immediately throw it away. Adding Darryl Hannah and Denise Richards to an already horrible story line just to sell DVDs is a disgrace. Trying to do 80's style cinematography to add artistry and color just made this movie suck more. Maybe the book version tells a different story if there is one. Save your time, money and eyesight by avoiding this storyless video. Movie Review: Camera Fetishes Focus on a Colorful Life
Summary: 4 Stars
Mar?a Lid?n directed 'Yo puta' ('The Life') based on material and story by Adela Iba?ez and Isabel Pisano, tied in three established actors (Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards, and Joaquim de Almeida), and creative camera work (visual manipulations, frame freezing, etc) by Ricardo Aronovich - all with the apparent intent of explaining the etiologies and manifestations of the life of prostitutes. And while many viewers find the m?lange of effects (real time interviews with fictional superimposed storyline) too edgy to digest, for this viewer Lid?n succeeds in informing her audience about the motivations and insights from honest prostitutes, gigolos, and their pimps with a gracious style.
Searching for a format to tie these interviews together, the writers paired a fictional prostitute (Hannah) with an Anthropology student (Denise Richards) working on a book of interviews with prostitutes. Their roles are minor. Where the film succeeds is in the selection of interviewees - mostly Spanish (the film is from Spain), but including French, Eastern European, and other nationality women and men. The moments with these people are magical showing primarily the soft interior of most of the women who know precisely what they are doing and why: there are messages of survival and true courage as well as libidinous abandonment!
There are rough spots in the film, extended moments that cry for editing, but the overall result is informative, creative and entertaining. Not for everyone perhaps, but for the curious and for those who enjoy experimental cinema this is a worthwhile film. Grady Harp, August 05
Movie Review: A realistic portrayal of "The Life"...
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been a sex worker for ten years and much like Denie Richards character in the film, I started working and took on "The Life" as a way to pay my way through my education.
I now have a degree in journalism and have published many stories on the topic of sex work.
Although I don't think that "The Life", or "Puta" as it was originally called in Spain, works very well as a film - i can honestly say that it is a realistic representation of the many facets of the sex industry. Although the overall feel of the film seems nostalgically warm towards the industry, it shows both the good, the bad and the ugly sides of this generally misunderstood career choice.
If you are hoping for a sexy movie starring hollywood starlets Denise Richards and Daryl Hannah - don't bother with this title.
However, if you are interested in the mysterious world of the oldest profession - perhaps you are thinking about a career change or maybe like the main character in the movie, you are simply studying the sex trade at college - i think you will enjoy this film and find it honest and insightful.
Movie Review: The Life pretty much sucks...a horrible concoction....BLEH!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Denise Richards (Valentine, Wild Things, The World Is Not Enough) and Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Splash) are barely even in this damn stupid movie about sex and life. There's a lot of subtitles and a lot of stupid s**t that goes on in this horrible mess of a movie. Richards is studying on sex so she interviews people, who pop up and talk and never stop and they dont go away and this movie never stops. The director must of been on lots of pot when he came up with the ideas..using real people to speak and we have to suffer threw subtitles reading about how these people like to have sex, what positions they like, how to do it properly and so on and so forth. Just cut the malarkey and shut the hell up.....probably one of the worst movies out there so far...a gargantuan BOMBBBBB. Richard and Hannah are wastedMovie Review: One good actress, one boring film.
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie fails all parameters but for Denise Richards' acting; here she displays a dramatic range not apparent before, for which the movie deserves a star. The movie would have been a hit about 1972, but modern audiences see cinematic sex as patronizing. This film at once attempts to titillate us sexually and educate us about the evils of prostition, but fails as both eroticism and intellectual stimulation.