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1001realapes wrote: Hopefully it
will find it's
audience on DVD !
Wow, wow, wow.
Yes, just watched it on DVD (I don't think I was aware of this film at all, remembered seeing the title here in Unsung and found the thread).
This is Gilliam's finest work. It's also his ballsiest (pardon the expression, but it fits here). What is so incredible is the innocence and imagination that shines through the (INCREDIBLE) performances by the little girl and the brain-damaged kid, even against a backdrop of stunningly grotesque events. Even the scenes where she and the kid play 'kissy' is honest in it's childlike absence of 'adult' intention.
I won't give anything away that you can't read on the back of the box- suffice it to say this is a shockingly beautiful, disturbingly epiphanal, truly remarkable film- it's interesting coming on the heels of seeing 'Pan's Labyrinth', a very similar film in many ways... in it's depiction of a young child living between a monsterous reality and her own lucid imagination.
EDIT: I've been looking at the generally dim reception this film got from most reviewers. Most of them seem to base their opinion of it using their personal repulsion to the frank use of unpleasant visuals and the childhood imitation of adult behavior... I think it's the bravest thing Gilliam has done (and I do like most of his other works a whole bunch).
I guess not for the squeamish, tho....
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