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Summary: Virgin Suicides is a GEM....
Review: this movie is incredible...with a great cast kristen dunst,josh harnett, kathleen turner ,james wood..and of course first time director Sofia Coppola...This movie is a tragic tale of a family and there perfect beauitful daughters and told thru the eyes of the boys who loved them. the movie tells how hard the girls had it...it shows that just because you are beauitful and popular doesn't mean your life is perfect....the movie is just about the reflections of how much these girls made an impact on the neighbourhood boys and the story of the girls lives and tragic end thru the boys eyes...thsi movie is incredible it is a must have for any movie lover..
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Summary: The Virgin Suicides
Review: This was an extremely powerful movie. It's very dark, but the acting is incredible. Josh Hartnett plays Kirsten Dunst's love interest wonderfully. It is a depressing movie, but it is still wonderful and it's just a very different movie; it's not your average movie. It shows the trouble teenage girls had to face back in the 1970's, and shows the hardships they had to go through because of their overly strict Catholic parents. It is an incredible movie, and the drama is so intense. I definetely reccomend it.
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Summary: Rather unimpressive
Review: I do know what it was but this movie was rather dissapointing. I must say the performances are nothing but spectacular . I just seemed to have an empty feeling as i never was pulled into this so whatever sypathy i was suppose to have for any of the charecters was never developed. I also think there was a lot Lucky that we should have got to know but we didn't .The major flaw with this movie is there is no directive start of these charecters . This movie seemed to have a lot of art house cliches yet It was still dissapointing
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Summary: Virgin Suicides is the Best Movie Ever!!!
Review: This movie is a combination of both a documentary and a movie in one. It shows you how it really is when you're spoiled but dont have anything emotionally. People think others have it all but just becausethey have it all doesnt mean they have it all mentally. This movie is great and Josh Hartnett is HOTT!!!
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Summary: Intoxicating...
Review: I had been meaning to see The Virgin Suicides since I first heard it was being released to film, based on its 1993 book by Jeffrey Eugenides. I never got around to it until January 2001 when I rented it.This film was beautifully done with its easy-on-the-eyes cinematography, the shades of colours, the portrayal of seasons, the flawless actors (all of them), the way they moved & spoke. As in the book, this film is told as a memory of a group of boys' fascination & obsession with the lives of a group of very blonde sisters. It's not your typical formula film & includes a wondrous soundtrack, to say the least, with hypnotic contributions by Air. It still lingers in my mind - the true mark of a great film, in my eyes. The book, the film, even the soundtrack: I recommend them all.
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Summary: The Virgin Suicides- A must see!
Review: This movie really got my attention! The directing was wonderful, and Sophia Coppala did an excellent job at writing it from the book. She really kept the story true to the book. This is the type of movie I could definately watch over and over again. Everyone should see this movie!
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Summary: ONE FROM THE HEART
Review: I understand very well that you can be a little bit confused after having read the reviews here at Amazon. You still don't know whether the movie THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is a masterpiece or the worst movie of 1999 directed by the worst director of the world. Well, it is certainly not the worst movie of the world, the co-producer Francis Ford Coppola being not a man who has the reputation to invest his money in bad movies. No, if the movie deserves the masterpiece or the triple 0 qualification , it depends only on you. Let's say that if you like Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK , movies with an eerie atmosphere or european films, I'm pretty sure you will adore THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. The director Sofia Coppola, in her first movie, describes the ordinary life of an average american family with treasures of delicacy and never tries to explain why the Lisbon sisters chose to depart in such a dramatical way. She leaves hints now and then but never judges the parents of these overprotected young girls. One can recognize in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES the light influence of F. F. Coppola and his video experiments in certain scenes that remind me at times of one the masterpieces he directed : ONE FROM THE HEART. But all in all, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is a superb first movie of a new director one will soon hear from again. The cast is also outstanding with a special word for Kathleen Turner and James Woods who impersonate the Lisbon parents in a magistral manner. The bonus features of this Paramount Classics DVD also reserve a good surprise to the movie lover. The behind the scene featurette, shot by Eleanor Coppola, is for once interesting and presents Sofia Coppola and her actors at work. You really understand that the Coppolas are a tribe who psychologically backed the director during the shooting. Other bonus features include a french dubbed version, english subtitles, the theatrical trailer and a video of the group AIR who wrote the musical score. A DVD zone your library.
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Summary: virgins no more
Review: It was a mistake to read the book first! I tried to keep my expectations at the door when viewing this film, but I couldn't help it. While I thought the movie was good, it did not live up to Jeffery Eugenides' dark novel in terms of capturing the Lisbon girls' angst. In my opinion, the movie was too 'happy' if you would. Their house in the book was depicted as dark to begin with, gradually becoming even more run down and eerie. The house in the movie was too big and bright throughout with the ivory decor and fancy staircase, large kitchen. After the death of Cecilia, (who was very good and depressed in the movie) the Lisbon girls frankly didn't seem really depressed longer than a scene and a half. Not to sound so critical, but after such a serious impact in their lives they certainly bounced back much faster than in the book. Other things that were somewhat bothersome in comparison: When the city was ordered to cut down their elm tree, in the movie the girls fled before the media captured them saving their elm, but in the book they got their picture in the paper with a feature story. In the book it it mentioned that Lux and Trip were already ..involved before homecoming night, and after they were made king and queen, Lux arrived home with Trip's coat on and a white stripe (from the football field) was imprinted on the back, which causes more mystery and puzzlement among the narrator(s); in the movie there was no mention of these details. Even the dresses which they wore to homecoming were so much nicer than the book describes. Basically what I feel is that the movie did not accomplish the dark, somber, and depressing mood of the book in many ways. I did not feel as connected to the girls in the movie as in the book-maybe they were too perfect looking. Overall, it was a good effort.
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Summary: What Is The Nature Of A Masterpiece?
Review: I watched the DVD of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES again last night in the hope I had misjudged it the first time around. Like most people, I'm susceptible to movie reviews and after reading the words "magnificent" and "glorious" and "haunting" and "brilliant directorial debut" I wanted to love this film. Regrettably, it didn't improve with a second viewing. Proclaiming any work of art a masterpiece may be the artistic equivalent of Einstein's' theory of Relativity in that it depends on the perspective of the viewer. I should state upfront that I'm not a teenager, so maybe I shouldn't be commenting on a film made from a famous book on the subject of teen suicides. And to be honest, this film may have poignancy to younger viewers that was lost on my mature sensibilities. I was brought up on the films of Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, so I'm not hooked on thrill a minute, T & A festivals or on following Indiana Jones on another crusade. For me a film is either good or not good---------or great, when you're lucky enough to find one and awful when you're not. A film either has to have marvelous action/special effects, or have a good story and be intellectually engaging. I prefer the latter. I expected the latter in the case of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. Instead I found suppressed hormones and five teenage girls who believe that being female is a liability. Almost as a religious pact, they decide to withdraw from the world permanently. The Lisbons are a highly dysfunctional family. Dad is a socially inept math teacher, while mom is a strict disciplinarian who forgets she was once a young girl. I call the family dysfunctional, yet the nice middle class family I saw on the screen is quite common in American life. That may be the real and tragic message of this film...
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Summary: A Breathtaking Masterpeice of Modern Motion Pictures
Review: It's pretty easy to think that all modern cinema, well, .... When the top drawers are either little-to-no-story special effects-a-thons or toilet humoured shock comedies, it seems that either the audience or the directors are just getting less and less intellectual. Then I saw a short montage of scenes for Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, and I knew that this was one film that had to be more than "Just Okay". The Virgin Suicides is more than just a look at five teen girls growing up in 1976, but rather a glimps of the tyranny and corruption that lie in middle-American suburbia. Kirsten Dunst (Lux) and Hannah Hall (Cecelia) give some of the finest acting job's I have seen in a very long time, this and the still have yet to enter their 20's (pretty big insult to the so-called "actors" in Hollywood today). Also James Woods and Kathleen Turner's portrayal's as the Lisbon parents are good reminders that just because an actor or actress isn't with the "Hollywood Elite" anymore, doesn't mean that they still outshine all other younger and "hipper" actors and actress's of today. Everything about the film is gripping, from the story of Cecelia, to smaller scenes (case and point when Mrs. Lisbon makes Lux burn all her rock records, pretty intense to a music lover like me). The best aspect of the film is definitely the score. Air does a fine job of creating the somber and surrealistic mood of the movie. Not since Dazed and Confused have I watched a film so many times back to back, I strongly reccomend this film to anybody that is bored and fed up with the lackluster films that Hollywood is pumping out today.
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