Anna

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Summary: Do You Speak Czech?
Review: Artisan strikes again. Two words - NO SUBTITLES! This is one of 'thee' best indie films ever made and Sally Kirkland absolutely deserved the Oscar nomination that she received for her portrayal of Anna, a one-time movie star in her native country. The character is Czechoslovakian and the story is set up through her meeting with another Czech citizen, Paulina Porizkova who speak to one another in Czech. A dialogue that no American will understand because THERE ARE NO SUBTITLES!

How does this studio stay in business? WHY does this studio stay in business? Not because of their track record for excellence.

This studio keeps releasing excellent films in BOTCHED conditions that deserves so much better! Anna (a 5 star film) needs to be re-released WITH THE MISSING SUBTITLES by a studio that cares about the product that they are selling AND the consumer to whom they are selling to. Artisan is not that studio.

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Summary: Love this movie
Review: I absolutly love this movie. Sally Kirkland did indeed deserve the highest honors for this on target performance. This movie flowed and I can watch it again and again. I cannot convey how much not only do I love the movie, but how I felt the emotions throughout.
I am thrilled to see it now on DVD - a must have.

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Summary: The weight of the years!
Review: Sally Kirkland gave the best role of her career with this haunting portrait of a middle aged actress who decides to cast in USA after being a very well known actress in her birth country.

The struggling atmosphere and the winds of change experimented by Anna make the dramatic frame to receive her parent. You will realize how fast and temporal can result the affective ties when the greed and the ambition sharp the spirit.

The profound sensation of loneliness due the age in the acting world is the central focus of this intelligent and sensitive film. What can be the pretext to ignore the talent and experience of an actress whose only sin has been to surpass the forties? The acquired experience weighs less than nothing when the first wrinkles delineate the feminine face. It would seem that Faustian stigma has survived through the years and has embodied in the common sense of many people.

A mature film who could become in a vital reference point and late discussion after you watch this picture.