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The Atrocity Exhibition [DVD] [2001]

DVD ~ Victor Slezak
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  • Actors: Victor Slezak, Anna Juvander, Michael Kirby, Mariko Takai, Robert Patrick Brink
  • Directors: Jonathan Weiss
  • Writers: Michael Kirby, Jonathan Weiss, J.G. Ballard
  • Producers: Adam Ernster, Alexander Lasky, Bob Jason, Bud Gardner, Catherine Ernst
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Dutch, French, German, Spanish
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Filmfreak Distributie
  • DVD Release Date: 29 May 2006
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 905849067X
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,612 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU LIKED THE BOOK, BUY IT!, 31 Aug 2006
By S. C. Rocha (Aracaju,SE Brasil) - See all my reviews
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Everybody I saw reviews of has a kind of bad trip about this film. I can't understand why exactly, everybody wants to point its pretentiousness and such...
Here is my POV: the opening prologue is scary I thought (but if you hear the audio commentary you'll know that Ballard wrote it exclusively for Weiss version) but soon after that, oh man, its beautiful! If you know the book you'll get it more clearly and specially how Weiss shape it after the book and render it to film form.
If you, for example, take a film like cornenberg's Naked Lunch (wich is more a hommage to Burroughs than a direct adaptation from the title) it's a straight story unlike the book. But here with Atrocity the fragmentation is faithful without following the book too closely. And there's no way making this in a commercial movie.
Weiss has guts! His film is close to Eraserhead than to film adaptations like Cronenberg's Crash.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for Ballard's Own Contribution, 15 Aug 2006
What the previous reviewer has overlooked is a quite extraordinary commentary on the film by JG Ballard that is one of this Disc's extras and highlights. Throughout the 80 minutes that this commentary goes on for Ballard throws out a stream of ideas and comments on Modernity that help to illuminate both the original book and the movie. Atrocity Exhibition is, obviously, both avant-garde and, to a degree, impenetrable, but Ballard functions like the most well-informed Tour Guide you could imagine and makes the whole thing accessible. It also has to be said that Jonathan Weiss does his bit to get the most out of Ballard too, so much so that by the end I was also inclined to view the film itself more generously. If you are contemplating a purchase, be reassured that listening to Ballard speak alongside Weiss's imagery might be the best way to experience this DVD. Either way, I would thoroughly recommend it as a wonderful companion to the novel. Even if you have the annotated version be aware that Ballard's contribution here is also very different from his asides in that edition.
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid at all costs, 5 Aug 2006
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This attempt at adapting J.G. Ballard's groundbreaking 1960s work is one of the worst adaptations in cinematic history. I am pretty certain it put me in a coma. This comes across as highly pretentious, po-faced and its attempt to transpose the challenging text ultimately fails. I think it's possible to make an interesting film of 'The Atrocity Exhibition', but I think this would involve sticking to the core text and using the kind of visual approach to history Oliver Stone took with 'Nixon.'

Previous Ballard-adaptations 'Empire of the Sun' and 'Crash' have been fine - this is worse than 'Low Flying Aircraft' a few years ago. Ballard has lots of works that should adapt well - 'High Rise' (Bruce Robinson wrote a screenplay),'The Drought', 'Cocaine Nights', 'Concrete Island', 'The Drowned World', 'Super Cannes' - but this is not the way. The only thing I liked about this was the soundtrack from J.G. Thirwell - the man behind Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Wiseblood & Manorexia - I do hope you can buy this music. Thirwell's soundtrack here should have people like David Fincher banging on the door - otherwise avoid at all costs and stick with the annotated book. It's much safer...
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