The Pillow Book
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Movie Reviews of The Pillow Book
Movie Review: A great movie, but the DVD...
Summary: 4 Stars
The Pillow Book, is an outstanding movie by Peter Greenaway, the visuals are awesome, the story is interesting and acting is good. I recommend you to rent it before you buy it, because I know some people didn't like it at all, or just hated. Now, if you decide to buy it, be very careful, this DVD is NOT IN WIDESCREEN FORMAT, this means, it has been re-formatted to fit your TV, then some of the image has been cut out [It's not widescreen anamorphic]. I didn't had the chance to watch this movie on theaters, so I really don't know how much was left behind. I owe the VHS and DVD so I can tell you, the DVD has a clearer image quality, but not outstanding, and the sound is just 2 channel, not 5.1 Dolby Digital as many many other DVDs on the market. The DVD contains a great trailer. I suggest you buy the DVD then (it's still better than VHS), but I still hope there will be someday a widescreen version for such an outstanding film. (An audio commentary will have been an excellent option to include as extra feature here)Movie Review: Any Way You Slice It...
Summary: 4 Stars
...The Pillow Book is a fascinating movie. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature are bizarrely combined to help a young Japanese woman make sense of her life. This film will not be for everyone, as there is much full frontal male nudity, and some stomach-turning sequences involving a homosexual Japanese publisher's fetishistic attempt to possess Ewan McGregor's character Jerome, even after Jerome's death. This is not the movie for you if you like straight-up realism; the situations are outre, but I happily suspended my disbelief to take in the imaginative story, and a heroic performance by the truly gifted McGregor.
Movie Review: Very creative & erotic film
Summary: 4 Stars
It is very peculiar film. Most of Greenaway's works are like this, it's more special. I think, it was a adventure to express the emotion of Eastern with a language as a Western director. This film represented about sex, love, life and death from the pillow book, a traditional Japanese book for woman. Sometimes, I couldn't understand. Anyway, It's a fact that is very creative. We can feel the beauty of a character from this film, especially Chinese character. Greenaway' works give a new feeling every time, but they have a common feature always. As he majored in painting at the university, the composition of a screen is very fine.Movie Review: well made film.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of these films that is hard to put to words. The film was made with a odd kind of video camera were the viewer can see 2 to 4 things at once along with Subtitles to the Japanese and Chinese (it is set in Japan and Hong Kong) language of the film making it like a book you read then a film to watch. The story is mote about the live of a woman (Vivian Wu) who is obsessed with recreating two childhood rituals one of them being to use her body to write words on and to write her own "Pillow book" (diary). One of the longest films I have seen this year. 1997. RCA. 126 MINS.
Movie Review: wow
Summary: 4 Stars
I rented this movie a few months ago and saw it again on IFC and I quite enjoyed it. The only reason I rented it was because Ewan McGregor was in it and I had read he was naked (hehe). Anyways, I thought the movie was very good, a little strange, but the imagery was beautiful, I've never seen a movie quite like it. Does anyone know who sings the French song that appears in the movie? The words are shown at the bottom of the screen as their being sung, and it's sung by a women. As long as you don't mind lots of naked men you will probably enjoy this movie.