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Birth (2004)
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: Maverick young filmmaker Jonathan Glazer affirms the promise of his brilliant debut, Sexy Beast, with his new film Birth, teaming with Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman for a metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman stars as Anna, a... Maverick young filmmaker Jonathan Glazer affirms the promise of his brilliant debut, Sexy Beast, with his new film Birth, teaming with Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman for a metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman stars as Anna, a delicate young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. As Anna, Kidman achieves a breathtaking emotional transparency to portray an intelligent woman who discovers another side of herself in the face of a bizarre, yet tantalizing possibility. The actress is beautifully paired with Canadian child actor Cameron Bright, who portrays the boy interloper with a haunting stillness and conviction. Bringing an assured sense of style and form to a decidedly unconventional narrative, Glazer creates a world that is at once strange and familiar, like a fairy tale. Like many fairy tales, Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown. Birth is scheduled for a Nov. 5 release. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliot, Arliss Howard
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere, Milo Addica
Producer: Nick Morris, Lizie Gower
Composer: Alexander Desplat
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 4, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
- Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
DVD-ROM Features:
Reviews
It's beautifully made and very well-acted, tantalising us with its central mystery even if it's rather mopey and dull.
The film fudges the conceit by pulling you back and forth between disbelief and acceptance, planting compelling doubts but contradicting them.
all the best and all the worst things associated with the phrase "art film"
Nadie debería ir a ver esta película sin estar dispuesto a sumergirse en un clima extraño, donde conviven el misterio, la sensualidad y la locura.
Birth channels the style and tone of [Buñuel classics] exceptionally well, but ultimately the dramatic resolution is unsatisfying.
Apesar de contar com sua parcela de defeitos, merece aplausos pela honestidade com que aborda sua história e pela coragem de Glazer em investir em um ritmo lento e estudado.
"Birth" is a creepy, well-acted examination of how grief can give itself over to irrationality. It pushes its share of buttons - and then pushes a few more.
For a certain kind of moviegoer, Birth will provide allusive ancillary thrills...
Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I’ve seen since Woody Allen’s Another Woman.
You want to like a movie made with the poise and precision of Birth, but the film feels only partially conceived.
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