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Summary: stimulating, not award winning
Review: "The loss of sexual innocense" is a solid attempt but falls short due to over indulgence. The broken narrative is suggestive but far too inconclusive. Graphic sequences hit a little too close to home at times but the cinematography and score counter beautifully.The film is definately worth a see but not an oscar.
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Summary: I'm sorry I saw this
Review: ...and you will be if you decide to make the same mistake I made.I kept hearing and reading good reviews about this films. Now, I knew that Mike Figgis's work is not always accessible, but I never expected this kind of a mess. Not only does this film move at an excruciatingly slow pace, but it avoids making sense most of the time. The different stories sort of intertwine but they never really connect. Saffron Burrows acts as if she was bored throughout the filming... All in all: avoid this film now...thank me later.
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Summary: Gotta see it to believe it.
Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Blue Velvet. It's as carefully paced and music-laden as the former, as far from redemption as the latter. Don't read any blurbs or summaries, just watch it.
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Summary: What more?
Review: A semi-autobiographical impression of betrayal and love. Short anecdotes of usuality and unusuality of love. Succesfully editting, extremely good visuality and cinematography. Mike Figgis is a great director and "looker". Lyric, poetic, charming... what more?
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Summary: Too artsy and boring
Review: After his masterpiece "Leaving Las Vegas" I was looking forward to the next film from the talented Figgis but this is one of the most boring films ever made. I love slow, art-house films and having more music than dialogue was intriguing but this one just put me to sleep. A cure for insomnia. How could the twins at the airport not talk to each other? Maybe I missed something.
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Summary: Lots of nakedness
Review: Although the other reviewers mention the meaning of the movie and the cinematography, I imagine few will consider these things when watching this movie. Most people will check this movie out just to see if there is as much sex in it as the title implies. It won't be anything more than a softcore porn. And for you folks into watersports, this movie may be worth looking into. It is quite possibly the only publicly released non-porno to feature pissing. I imagine finding actors to pee on film must have been very difficult.
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Summary: The non-perfect world revealed through minute experiences
Review: At what point do we lose our innocence? Is it the one moment of actually having sex, or is it a build up of smaller things through life that slowly take it away? This film has the effect of juxtiposing two views on the question: with Adam & Eve, we have complete innocence up to the moment of having sex ..then they are thrust out into the modern adult world and expected to somehow automatically know how to survive in it. The discovery of Sex does not give them the automatic knowledge of how to deal with all its possible consequences. Interweaved with that, Figgis puts scenes from a man's developing life. Events shown that each eat away a little bit of innocence we may not have even realized we still have. The slow disintegration of Innocence through time. The effect of both instances is numbing. The most amazing scene for me involves two twins, unaware of each other's existance (both played by Saffron Burrows), who one day cross paths with each other in an airport. The set up is stunning. This scene *begs* the question: if you met up with another version of yourself, a version with a different background & different formative events, would you even be recognizable to yourself? Would you be able to relate to that other you as a person? How much have the events in our lives formed us, and how much really is biological? The only quarrel with this film I have is a series of scenes in which Mr. Figgis employed a slow fade-in/fade-out method. This was very eye-painful to watch, the fade is at such a rate you feel as though you are just slow-blinking before falling asleep. Thankfully, this is only done briefly in the film. Over all, excellent filmmaking!
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Summary: Gorgeous Film - I Loved It!
Review: Being a fan of non-mainstream, non-narrative films, this movie caught my eye... and I loved it! Beautiful cinematography and full of emotion. Absolutely stunning! Brilliant work by Mike Figgis; his best film, I believe. TIME CODE was inventive, but LOSS is much more powerful. Buy this today!
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Summary: Brutally Beautiful
Review: I can't begin to describe this picture, to do it justice. The film is a series of short vignettes (some that are plain bizarre) that start to make sense only at the end. Figgis is on top of everything: the beautiful composition of each shot, the music, the editing, and the story. Taken as a whole, Mike Figgis just might be the most versatile and multi-talented filmmaker today. Can we start to make comparisons to Bergman? Do we dare? In all, this movie isn't for everyone. If you fall asleep for a moment, it's all over. This is one of those litmus test movies. If you love it, you'll start to evaluate all your friends on the basis of their appreciation of this film.
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Summary: an exqusite piece of film-making...
Review: I saw this film at 4 in the morning on a digital movie channel while trying to calm my 2 week old daughter back to sleep. I have enjoyed previous Mike Figgis films but was not familiar with this one and so sat back with no knowledge of its storyline or reviews so was able to have a completely unbiased view. Frankly, this film stunned me. It was clearly an 'art movie' demanding a great deal of the viewer but how truly rewarding it was too. Beautiful cinematography, crafted naturalistic performances, intelligent if obscure plots, truly innovative direction. This film is not easy viewing but for anyone with a passing interest in the finer points of film-making it is a true wonder. A very pleasant surprise, a movie I will be purchasing on DVD and watching time and time again.
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