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04/01/06
Birth (2004)
40 %
Reviews Counted: 134 Fresh: 53 Rotten:81 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus:
A well-mounted production is undermined by a muddled, absurd storyline of questionable taste.
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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliot, Arliss Howard
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere, Milo Addica
Producer: Nick Morris, Lizie Gower
Composer: Alexander Desplat
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere, Milo Addica
Producer: Nick Morris, Lizie Gower
Composer: Alexander Desplat
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02/09/06
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11/09/04
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It's beautifully made and very well-acted, tantalising us with its central mystery even if it's rather mopey and dull.
10/20/04
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11/01/07
Top Critic
The film fudges the conceit by pulling you back and forth between disbelief and acceptance, planting compelling doubts but contradicting them.
09/16/05
all the best and all the worst things associated with the phrase "art film"
09/12/05
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.
08/27/05
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05/13/05
Top Critic
Birth channels the style and tone of [Buñuel classics] exceptionally well, but ultimately the dramatic resolution is unsatisfying.
04/14/05
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.
04/01/05
"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.
02/16/05
For a certain kind of moviegoer, Birth will provide allusive ancillary thrills...
01/10/05
Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I’ve seen since Woody Allen’s Another Woman.
01/04/05
You want to like a movie made with the poise and precision of Birth, but the film feels only partially conceived.
12/16/04
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