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Summary: A talent to watch
Review: A remarkable debut feature by director Robert Celestino, who draws wonderfully nuanced performances from his lead actors. This is everything idependent film is supposed to be. His will be a career to watch.
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Summary: Frightening yet heartbreaking look at a love gone bad.
Review: Audacious, unflinching performances from its stars, gives Mr. Vincent the kind of octane rarely seen in modern love stories. No overly dramatic, self indulgent scenery chewing here.... it's a cinematic mainlining of emotional intensity.
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Summary: MR. VINCENT suprises with its solid unpretentious moxy
Review: Director Robert Celestino pays homage to John Cassavetes in MR. VINCENT, with lots of emotionally charged black and white photography. And it works, in part because the characters and context are so different form much of Cassavetes' work, but also because Celestino only infuses this homage throughout his otherwise straight-ahead film.MR. VINCENT is a resonant emotional wringer of a movie, surprises with its solid unpretnetious moxy. Even though the characters are unlovable, it has the power to enthral. Will it send you out the door feeling good about life? As in reality, there are no easy answers.
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Summary: Mr. Vincent
Review: If you've ever felt the obsession of love flow through your veins then Mr. Vincent is for you. This passionate love story unfolds in such a raw unfiltered dreamlike fashion that it will take your breath away. Robert Celestino, the director of this mouth watering tale, is surely one of the most talented unknown film makers of the 20th century. If your tired of a market that has saturated it's audiences with vacuous thrill seeking beautiful looking films that have no heart, and would like a soulful character driven film for a change, then this is it! Mr. Vincent fills all the senses with mankind's quest for love and the mysteries of that process. Bravo Celestino!!! No wonder they call you "Bob in the stars"!!!
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Summary: Mr. Vincent
Review: Intense drama with great cinematography. Great acting and great music. All around edge of your seat drama.
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Summary: Searing Indelible Power
Review: John Vincent teaches English at his old high school in Yonkers, sings and play guitar in empty pubs at night. He's not half bad, but he's not best seller material either: he's a touch too earnest, too much tied to his tiny little world. When his wife leaves him, his loneliness is quickly assuaged by Lisa, a local waitress and past acquaintance. Thier romance is passionate, but it moves too quickly for wary Lisa and soon John seems less a devoted partner and more a jealous, potentially psychotic stalker. Director Robert Celestino scars the screen with pure black and white, illuminating the dark side of John's nature. His images are filled with real people, with real feelings; his characters work slave jobs, get their periods, break down at work. Under his careful direction, like that of a mordern day Cassavetes, loniness and alienation seem less the cultural currency of the moment and more the unwavering paradigm of human relationships. Mr. Vincent is a "love story" of searing, indelible power.
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Summary: BLOWING THE LID OFF YONKERS!
Review: MISTER VINCENT is a powerful piece of writing from director Robert Celestino delivered by Lisa LoCicero and Frank John Hughes brave and sexy performances and an emotionally charged black and white camera. Celestino's dramatic realism, attention to detail and his examination of the particular culture of the everyday people of Yonkers, a small town just outside of New York City, makes MISTER VINCENT a film that stands up to and grows from repeated viewings. This is among the best movies to come out of the independent film movement, a real piece of movie making, something seen rarely today and so all the more shocking for it. Get your hands on this picture!
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Summary: An Astounding Film
Review: Movies have rarely, if ever, depicted male obsessiveness with more biting honesty than "Mr. Vincent", an astounding film by brilliant new filmmaker, Robert Celsetino. Scorsese has given us the obsessive rages of famous boxers, and taxi drivers who yearn to kill presidents, but Celestino's protagonist is a high school teacher (Frank John Hughes) whose most passionate goal is simply to win the heart of a woman. A singer-song writer by night, he's an everyday guy with a rebellious, poetic nature. His wife dumps him - she's lost patience with his show-biz dreams - but things look brighter when he runs into an old classmate from his own hign scool days (Lisa LoCicero). Both are disappointed by life, and each supports the others hopes. Celestino wrings such involving, truthful performances that it becomes nightmarishly painful when their affair goes bad. Mr. Vincent wants too much too soon - he introduces the "L" word after just one night, helps his new love to pay her bills, lavishes her with new clothes - only to find he is driving her away. The more she retreats the hell-bent he becomes. Celestino's watchful eye never flinches from the truth of what a man will do when he's both romantic and desperate, and his touch as a story teller is so assured (exquisitely reinforced by the silvery black and white cinematography of Dick Fisher) that one can't tear one's eyes away.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Mr Vincent is an Outstanding movie filled
with suspence as well as great performances.
Robert Bruzio is clearly a rising star, that
will be seen from for years to come. I highly
recommend it.
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Summary: FROM LOVE TO OBSESSION
Review: Mr. Vincent is a terrific movie - a powerful, disturbing and ultimately enlightening film exploring a man's journey from infatuation to love to obsession. The direction by Robert Celestino, the wonderfully atmospheric black & white cinematography, and the performances -- including an Oscar-worthy portrayal by Frank John Hughes -- are superior to most movies costing a hundred times what this one did.
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