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Summary: Amazing movie to pull you outside of yourself to elsewhere
Review: Sure the photography is stunning and the acting is not acting but living - but the story is amazing and frightening. To see the powerlessness of the character knowing it's really all of us and to love her even if you've never verged on madness yourself. She is just moving through life hoping to do okay and in the end managing that. What a film to feast on for years and years and to change you forever!
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Summary: This movie takes chances in all the right places
Review: This is a most unique, honest, raw look at the life of this writer. It takes chances in all the right places. It is both poetic and dramatic.
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Summary: haunting to say the least
Review: this is my first jane campion movie and of course i was incredibly impressed. absolutely no punches are pulled in this one. and it has incredible cinematography that makes it seem like a dream and in some cases a nightmare. the scenes inside the insane asylum are unforgettable as is Fox's performance. get this one. you'll feel as all of this is taking place right in front of you.
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Summary: TYPICAL
Review: THIS IS typical no frills slice o life type ugly coming of age new zealand lesbian misunderstood and diagnosed as a nut job too real for its own gOod insufferable stuff that will maKE U FEEL SCHITZED OUT JUST WATCHING IT GIRLS BOND A GIRL DIES GIRLS LIE AROUND BEING GIRLS GIRL GETS PERIOD- GIRL GETS EMBARASSSED (A LOT OF THAT )-- & BY THE TIME SHE GOT COMMITTED I FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO BE --- ADD A STAR IF YER A LESBIAN OR SCHIZO PHRENIC-- OR GOT AN UNWANTED LOBOTOMY-AFTER WATCHING THIS YOU WILL NEED ONE
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Summary: Get to know a remarkable woman
Review: This movie broke my heart in pieces the first time I saw it. I haven't been informed about Janet Frame's life before and this movie based on her autobiographies gave me the big picture that I find it too difficult to put it out of my mind.Janet is lovely girl by all means, generous and caring to her friends, she has crooked teeth in her younger days but she was always an owner of a diamond heart. She was painfully shy too, and God knows how stupid people judged her as schizophrenic in the best days of her life. It was so scary to see stupid people
diagnosing a genius as schizophrenic when it was them who should
have been diagnosed like that. Anyways,they took eight years of her life, best part of her life in hospitals with real mentally ill people. It's a wonder how did she manage to stay sane in those circumstances but she did. Today, Janet Frame is an old woman and I hope with all my heart that people will award her with a great world prize for the long eight years she spent in hospitals when nothing was wrong with her. She absolutely deserves some recognition as long as she's still alive. She has written so many books apart from her autobiographies and I love her with all my heart for setting a great example to humanity that GOOD PEOPLE will ALWAYS TRIUMPH (un)fortunetaly in the long run that is. A must see movie.
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Summary: Beautiful film
Review: This movie is wonderfully filmed and has a heart wrenching story. I recommend it.
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Summary: A Gun at My Temple....
Review: This movie is, technically, a very good movie. Janet Frame's disturbing story deserves to be told, and Campion is the woman to tell it. I gave it three stars because--by virtue of its subject--it is REALLY DEPRESSING. Do NOT watch this movie if you are feeling at all emotionally fragile or if you have had a bad day. Rent a musical instead. On the other hand, you could have a Lobotomy Film Festival and rent this and the movie FRANCES (and, for that matter, Frankenstein). Janet Frame's story is a series of disturbing, painful, traumatic and scary events. It is compelling to watch her go through all of this, but then, instant replays of racetrack crashes are compelling, too. Some possible sequel titles are: A Noose Around My Neck, A Razor at My Wrist, 500 Valium and a Glass of Water at My Bedside Table...you get my drift. It is amazing that, despite all her challenges, Frame did follow her dream and became a well-known writer. So in that sense, it's inspiring. I wish I had been more familiar with her writing before I watched this movie, and actually, I will probably watch it again after I read some of her work.
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