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Candy [2006] [DVD]

Heath Ledger , Abbie Cornish , Neil Armfield    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Damon Herriman
  • Directors: Neil Armfield
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Drakes Avenue Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 23 April 2007
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000LMPG24
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,074 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Gritty Australian drama starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush. A poet, Dan (Ledger), falls in love with art student Candy (Cornish), who gravitates towards his bohemian lifestyle - and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Tonkfan
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Abbie Cornish once again proves that she is an incredibly talented young actor, and Heath Ledger is excellent too.

It's a story that's been told many times before, but their portrayal of a young couple in love spiralling deeper and deeper into drug addiction is exemplary. This is a gruelling film that spares us none of the details of the humiliation and indignities addicts will put themselves through to feed their habit, yet it's told with such compassion and complete lack of judgement, that you desperately want these two young people to pull through and live 'happy ever ever'.

Add to this great direction, clever camera work and a moving supporting performance from Geoffrey rush and you've got a film that's well worth watching.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite 16 Feb 2008
By Anna TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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This is a film that will stay in my mind for a long while. Several times throughout watching it, it suddenly re-hit me that Ledger is no longer with us and it made me ache in a way I hadn't when I first heard he'd died. There's so much to talk about with Candy, but the over-riding aspect of it is the direction.

Some scenes focus on Dan and Candy (Ledger and Abbie Cornish) living in bedsit squalor, strung out, bleak and dark. But other scenes glow with Summer sun-light. From sweeping slow-motion shots of golden corn swaying in the breeze, to the two lovers kissing while the sunlight tickles their faces... it's beautifully languid; it's gorgeous. And all the more bleak for it.

Candy is broken up into 3 parts: Heaven, Earth and Hell. Heaven chronicles their relationship in the beginning, when heroin was a hobby, and when the bulk of their sustenance was sunshine and each other. In any other film, these 2 actors could play the jock and cheer-leader of the high-school so beautiful are they, which makes their inexorable slide into addiction all the more shocking. Earth is where they are bouncing from hit to hit, suffering and in pain, but still able to find themselves again if they tried to look.

When Candy becomes pregnant, they try to go cold turkey, and they are on the very brink of coming out the other side, when she loses the baby. We are shown the still-birth baby when his dad asks to hold him, and the reactions of both Ledger and Cornish will make you curl in on yourself. Tragedy shadows them both from the opening scene, but this event is what makes them really hit rock bottom, at which point we enter the segment entitled Hell. 2 minutes into Hell, I got in my car and went for a drive. I needed to be reminded that the world is beautiful, and that I wasn't alone. Such is this movie's ability to draw you in to the isolated, tiny world of the two protaganists.

Adding to the atmosphere, both beautiful and bleak, is the extraordinary score. With choral music, piano and violin concertos, all of it gentle and moving, Debussy might have scored this film were he still alive. The most poignant violin piece is slightly reminiscent of Adagio for Strings, in some ways. Different melody entirely, but with the same soaring strings that seem to sting your eyes til they inadvertently weep of their own volition.

There are no twists, no turns. No jump out of your skin moments. We are carried along relatively slowly and our intelligence isn't insulted. Candy depicts the cruelties of drug addiction, and it does so exquisitely.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a great film exploring the power of addiction, in drugs, in love, this film explores similar material to Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but without the use of the visual tricks. which makes them both worth a watch as this film uses a more poignant story-telling style than RfaD's aggressive clips. Obviously the nature of the material (heroin addiction) means that its not going to be the type of film where you leave the cinema beaming from ear to ear or crying with laughter, but equally the message isn't as dark as it could have been (or indeed as it was in RfaD). The score is good, the acting solid for all the major parts and despite the simple story, it keeps you interested throughout - its well paced to allow for good character development whilst still giving you the impression that you're going somewhere with it. The end is extremely poignant and believable, definitely one of the best films I saw in 2006, along with Volver and Little Miss Sunshine.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking film!
This film is breathtaking amazing, incredible acting and a beautiful yet sad storyline. My favorite film of all time it is simply brilliant.
Published 8 days ago by RVDZ-X
5.0 out of 5 stars Great film!
Expert acting all round and Rush is awesome as ever! Another Heath classic. Love how a film makes me feel with an ending like that!
Published 4 months ago by Toby
5.0 out of 5 stars all i can say is WOW
AMAZING acting deserves a 100 not a 5. real life drug use in australia how it can make you turn crazy make you do thing you'd think you would never do

very inspiring... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Georgie Boxall
5.0 out of 5 stars Tough, heartfelt, honest portrayal of addiction
The really stand-out aspect of this excellently-scripted and acted film is Abbie Cornish's performance. Ledger is great, but Cornish is searingly brilliant as Candy. Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. J. Ellory
4.0 out of 5 stars Trainspotting 2
not an all time classic like Trainspotting but i would just about recommend this as watchable, largely as the real-life drug angle has plenty of elements to keep the viewer... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Nomessingabout
1.0 out of 5 stars Blu day disc doesn't even work.
Fast shipping but the disc doesn't even work. I was so excited to watch this only to have it not even work for me.
Published 9 months ago by Chris
4.0 out of 5 stars Bluray Disc
This item arrived on time and was well packaged, this is not one of the better bluray disc for H D quality but its a good story.
Published on 21 Feb 2011 by Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars As close as you want to get
I stumbled on this film on some Sky TV channel. I'm 21years clean, now a company director with three happy and successful children and a wonderful wife, and life, come to that! Read more
Published on 18 July 2010 by The MDF Man
5.0 out of 5 stars Why is this film not better known?
Candy has to rate as one of my favourite films of all times. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it, after discovering it by complete chance after joining an Abbie Cornish... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by Holly Ford
5.0 out of 5 stars candy
i love this film this is the film you should see before you died. another of healths best films. i can not say anything bad about this film
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by Jemma Louise Wild
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