grady
06-25-2006, 06:28 AM
A new film, somewhat new for us here in the states, finally coming out after a year and a half since playing at Cannes where Maggie Chung won the award for Best Actress in a film. The director of the film, Olivier Assays also directed Irma Vep.
trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/clean/trailer/). (Not a neccessarily great trailer by any means.)
I had the opportinunity to finally see this film yesterday and it was quite enjoyable, at least more so than I was expecting for a film about a recovering junkie. Of course for a film shot on location in Paris, London, Vancouver B.C., and multiple other locations, it does a fine job of romanticizing these respective cities, mainly London and Paris.
The photography of the film by Cinematographer Eric Gautier is quite nice and a pleasure to look at. The Film is a combination of handheld photograph from mulitple camera units that is cut with precision to a point that doesn't feel like it's trying to grab your attention but rather transport the viewer via their limited perspective into the life of said character and the world of the characters in the film whether it's a close following handheld shot of a character walking or a quick handheld tilt up of a character's POV of another character glancing up at another.
Maggie Chung is wonderful to watch as the lead doing something that was quite wonderous to watch along with Nick Nolte as a wonderful subdued grieving father who has lost his son and beleives in forgiving anyone no matter what. It's another great roll for Nolte along with his role in The Good Thief a couple years back.
If this film ends up at a theater near you check it out.
trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/clean/trailer/). (Not a neccessarily great trailer by any means.)
I had the opportinunity to finally see this film yesterday and it was quite enjoyable, at least more so than I was expecting for a film about a recovering junkie. Of course for a film shot on location in Paris, London, Vancouver B.C., and multiple other locations, it does a fine job of romanticizing these respective cities, mainly London and Paris.
The photography of the film by Cinematographer Eric Gautier is quite nice and a pleasure to look at. The Film is a combination of handheld photograph from mulitple camera units that is cut with precision to a point that doesn't feel like it's trying to grab your attention but rather transport the viewer via their limited perspective into the life of said character and the world of the characters in the film whether it's a close following handheld shot of a character walking or a quick handheld tilt up of a character's POV of another character glancing up at another.
Maggie Chung is wonderful to watch as the lead doing something that was quite wonderous to watch along with Nick Nolte as a wonderful subdued grieving father who has lost his son and beleives in forgiving anyone no matter what. It's another great roll for Nolte along with his role in The Good Thief a couple years back.
If this film ends up at a theater near you check it out.