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Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman stars in 'Birth' as Anna, a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean.
Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten year-old boy (Cameron Bright) who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancée (Danny Huston), her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Let's get the downside out of the way first. Yes, to be honest, the plot is rather thin and when the film has finished will inspire a fair amount of disbelief in those who care to exmaine the story.
But on the upside, whilst you are immersed in the fim's wonderful cinematography, its bleak pallette of wintery colours and grainy visuals, those long, still scenes, and the moody, hypnotic soundtrack, you will be sucked into the atmosphere of suspense and mystery.
Don't listen to all the naysayers, this film is well worth a watch. Lock Stock and 2 Smoking barrels it certainly isn't (as a 1 star reviewer unfairly compared it to). If that's you're kind of film then go and watch something else. If you want to explore a different kind of film making, one with style, substance and scenes of quiet contemplation, then watch Birth.
But on the upside, whilst you are immersed in the fim's wonderful cinematography, its bleak pallette of wintery colours and grainy visuals, those long, still scenes, and the moody, hypnotic soundtrack, you will be sucked into the atmosphere of suspense and mystery.
Don't listen to all the naysayers, this film is well worth a watch. Lock Stock and 2 Smoking barrels it certainly isn't (as a 1 star reviewer unfairly compared it to). If that's you're kind of film then go and watch something else. If you want to explore a different kind of film making, one with style, substance and scenes of quiet contemplation, then watch Birth.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Birth died a death (pardon the pun) before it was even released due to unwelcome and hysterical publicity at its suggestion of sexual relations between a grown woman and a ten-year-old boy. Something of a flop, I watched it without any specific expectations or prejudices about its premise and was pleasantly surprised. As often with more elegaic, slow-moving films, you get a raft of irate reviewers on Amazon screaming about how bored they were as if they have been personally affonted. Maybe they were expecting something from Nicole Kidman on the level of Bewitched or The Stepford Wives? This is not conventional Hollywood - but more (perhaps self-consciously) European in style, darkly symbolic in the mold of Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence - with shades of David Lynch and Luis Bunuel.
Richly atmospheric, with an uncanny performance by Cameron Bright as the possible reincarnation of Nicole Kidman's dead husband, it is a chilling examination of loss and grief. Although it operates on one level as a supernatural thriller, there are more subtle currents at work here that less imaginative filmgoers like to dismiss as boring or pretentious. Allow yourself to be pulled into the sombre mood, however, and stop expecting things 'To Happen', and you might be rewarded with something deeper and more nuanced. If you don't have much of an attention span or a capacity to enjoy films which aren't supposed to be treated as literal, then you should avoid this. 'Birth' has its faults, but it doesn't deserve the vitriolic abuse it has received here.
Richly atmospheric, with an uncanny performance by Cameron Bright as the possible reincarnation of Nicole Kidman's dead husband, it is a chilling examination of loss and grief. Although it operates on one level as a supernatural thriller, there are more subtle currents at work here that less imaginative filmgoers like to dismiss as boring or pretentious. Allow yourself to be pulled into the sombre mood, however, and stop expecting things 'To Happen', and you might be rewarded with something deeper and more nuanced. If you don't have much of an attention span or a capacity to enjoy films which aren't supposed to be treated as literal, then you should avoid this. 'Birth' has its faults, but it doesn't deserve the vitriolic abuse it has received here.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is more about human emotions [externally+internal] than anything else! If you can't appreciate an actors performance without them doing some action scene or over the top emotional wreck scene then you won't understand this film! Nicole Kidman's scene while she sits in the cinema is just - well no words describe - you have to watch for yourself!
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a brave film to make
This film has such a strong sense of atmosphere, the confusion of its heroine is so palpable, that I found it both hypnotic and moving. Read more
Published 3 months ago by schumann_bg
WHY ALL THE HYSTERICS IN A SUPPOSEDLY MATURE, INTELLIGENT AND OPEN...
I find it amazing how many people are giving this film one star seemingly based solely on "disturbing scenes". Read more
Published 4 months ago by Aaron K. Wilkins
Should've Been Aborted
Nauseatingly pretentious claptrap that was quite rightly greeted with vitriolic hate on it's release. Read more
Published 14 months ago by BoatDrinks
A strange film
I had read the terrible reviews of "Birth" but I think Nicole Kidman is a great actress so I thought I'd give it a go. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Camilla Macaulay
bleakly beautiful
Seeing this film for the second time recently allowed me to take my focus off the plot development and simply soak up the ambience. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by G. Stevens
Useless movie
Unnecessarily long, this movies attempts to built a mystery plot based on supra natural phenomena where Nicole Kidman's late husband comes back to life embodied in a 10 year old... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2008 by F. Panin
slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
The person who gave it 5 stars must have watched a different film with the same title, as i agree with the person who gave it a 1 star, it was soooo slowwwwwwww. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2008 by Mrs. M. J. Warr
hm...
this was a clever film and i know i should have been captured by some kind of beauty that it was meant to represent for past emotions of people who are no longer alive but i just... Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2007 by Ms. F. I. Macdonald
Wish I'd read the reviews before renting!!
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with any of the reviews who claim this film is interesting in a darkly moody, intellectual, european or any other sense. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2006 by C. F. Hopkins
The next life in this.
Read Dr Jim B Tucker's Life Before Life before dismissing this as bilge - open your eyes. It is a very good thought-provoking film about the possibility of someone dearly loved... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2006 by D Deacon
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