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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: If you liked the fillm, you'll like this! A great addition to any Kate Winslet collection!
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Summary: Surreal Voyage
Review: The story about the real life case of Pauline Parker and Juliette Hulme, two young girls whose friendship became so intense that at the point of risking being separated,they plot to kill one of the girl's mother and succeed in doing so. Jackson's style is exhilirating to no end. It's one of those films that feel like a an amusement park ride. The performances by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey (debut performances for both) are incredible! I cannot believe this film was so ignored by all the awards entities. This is a definite must see for anyone who likes innovative, avant garde cinema.
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Summary: Absolutely haunting
Review: I was dumbstruck after watching this movie. Even though it begins as a sweet tale of friendship between two young girls, it ends off as a haunting, yet true story. Kate Winslet, once again showing she is one of the best actresses of her time, is amazing (as is everyone else). This movie isn't for all tastes, but it is a true work of art.
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Summary: Heavenly
Review: Peter Jackson did a wonderful job with this movie. The thing that was most remarkable besides the girls' relationship was their ability to forget their troubles through their secret world. The creativity and imagination they had drew me into the movie. Their friendship was pure, comedic, loving, dangerous and intense all at the same time. It's absolutely brillant.
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Summary: Wonderful storytelling.
Review: Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) and Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynsky) are best of friends, teenagers in 1950's New Zealand. Their friendship quickly becomes intense, obsessive, and as each pushes their own families farther and farther away, they wander jointly into a world that is more fantasy than reality. Peter Jackson's dramatic recount of the true story of matricide in Christchurch is aggressive as well as imaginative. Jackson's creative method of storytelling includes a combination of traditional story, with first person narrative by Pauline, and fantastic lifesize 'claymation' like portrayals of the girls' fantasies. Pauline Parker's own diaries were contributive in reconstructing many of these events. As their parents begin to question the 'healthiness' of the relationship, a decision is made to separate the girls from contact. Jackson implies that a sexual relation existed between the girls as well, and it's this implication and the resulting separation that ultimately results in the girl's joint decision to kill. When I first saw this film, it was also my first exposure to Kate Winslet. Her on-screen presence is so commanding, it's virtually impossible to take your eyes off her whenever she is on screen. I understand that, in real life, Juliet made a career as a writer of mystery stories subsequent to her release, but Pauline is nowhere to be found.
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Summary: was there a better movie made in the 1990's?
Review: I am not so sure there was a better film made in the 1990's. Kate what's-her-name will be lucky to ever be a part of anything so wonderful again. She can ride as many boats to an icy death as she wants, but in the end her involvment with this film shall be seen as her wisest move. This movie has eveything. I mean everything; love, death, despair, drama, humor, tragedy, misunderstandings, young precocious women, and Orson Welles. Can anyone say that about a James Cameron film? Of course not. King of the world, my eye!
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Summary: Heavenly Creatures Is Divine
Review: I love this movie. Smart and talented, the cast should've gotten Oscars! Excellent film. Moves you on a 1000 different levels. Please see this movie! I think it's superb.
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Summary: "Through everything - we sink or swim together."
Review: This film is like my Bible. I adore it. I can relate to thegirls' relationship in so many ways as I have an almost identicalrelationship with my best friend Lill. We're not about to kill her mother (she is my Pauline and I am her Juliet) but that's about the only difference. Y I cannot recommend this film strongly enough. It is beautiful - there aren't actually words to describe it. It will always have a very special place in my heart as it has helped me to realise that my relationship with my friend is not of the unheard-of sort, but of a common sort that is so often misjudged and rejected. Please watch this film and judge for yourself. Allow yourself to be absorbed into the love this film holds. Please try to accept those who reach out to you not wanting understanding, just acceptance. Please. It hurts so much when you don't.
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Summary: TWISTED
Review: This could well be the ultimate parallel universe movie. Two emotionally stunted adolescent girls escape their pain by creating a medieval/romance novel other-world for themselves. Harmless enough at first, their obsessions snowball into a seriously disturbing detachment from reality until a vicious murder brings it all crashing down. In one truly sadistic scene the about-to-be-murderesses sweetly urge the about-to-be-victim to indulge in the last pastry she will ever enjoy on this earth. Well-acted and gorgeously filmed in dreamvision, be warned that the killing-although brief-is excruciating.
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Summary: HIDEOUSLY HEAVENLY --- but what about the future
Review: Heavenly Creatures is not really the kind of movie you could ever really admit to loving as it's sick consepts barely leave you with any grip on reality - similar to the feeling one gets after such movies as Schindlers List. However while Kate was as convincing in her rols as ever, I would like to see a sequal... Surely after all these years in the real world the two friends/lovers would be permitted to reunite! I am aware that it was part of their contract but surely it could be reviewed. I believe Heavenly creatures was a love story - Romeo killed for his love and we call it the essence of romance so why don't we consider this the epitimy of love and friendship?
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