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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Wow, I did not see that ending coming. What a fascinating movie which twists along the way. This movie simply draws you further and further in. Victims become aggressors and then victims again.
This is a must see movie. The tension slowly mounts as apparent chance meetings become part of living movie. One is left to ponder on what is truth and reality as each character becomes yet another vulnerable participant in the playing out of a callous film-maker's apparent fantasy. No character escapes a twist in their tale.
The viewer's emotions and sympathies are constantly toyed with until utter disbelief takes over.
The three main actors, Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy and Natalia Verbeke play their roles with total commitment and belief, each with a different motivation for becoming involved in the reality movie. The scariest aspect is simply that as the general public are increasingly drawn into reality tv shows and their like, this movie opens the question could this happen for real?
This is a must see movie. The tension slowly mounts as apparent chance meetings become part of living movie. One is left to ponder on what is truth and reality as each character becomes yet another vulnerable participant in the playing out of a callous film-maker's apparent fantasy. No character escapes a twist in their tale.
The viewer's emotions and sympathies are constantly toyed with until utter disbelief takes over.
The three main actors, Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy and Natalia Verbeke play their roles with total commitment and belief, each with a different motivation for becoming involved in the reality movie. The scariest aspect is simply that as the general public are increasingly drawn into reality tv shows and their like, this movie opens the question could this happen for real?
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Having seen most of Bernal's films, I've grown to like him greatly as an actor, thus explaining my motivation for picking this up. I think this is the first English speaking film Gael has done and that I've seen. On the first scene when he open his mouth I was taking aback because I wasn't use to him speaking English with an English accent to top it all off. I won't lie it took some getting use too; to me he sounded okay but it wasn't the best.
In this film his character is up for causing some mischief in this romantic thriller. Kit (Gael Bernal) plays a Brazilian immigrant living in London. He works odd jobs until he is provided a most fortunate opportunity. Carmen (Verbeke) moves to London to escape a troublesome past in Spain. Carmen falls in love with Barnaby (D'Arcy), a local Londoner, who eventually proposes marriage. The three end up crossing paths throughout the plot.
Personally, I find the romantic drama as a genre in dire need of a wake-up call. Films such as this one, `Closer,' `Unfaithful', `Wicker Park,' and very few others, are daring to attempt something original, whether it be a more frank look at relationships, a less clichéd or sexist view of infidelity, or a new take on the love triangle... and by new I mean new in both this film and `Wicker Park.' Rather than recycle `Shakespeare,' `Jane Austen,' or `An Affair To Remember' for the thousandth time, the director and cast has broke some new ground on this.
The efforts on direction is good, well, that style of combining the footage in film and the one extracted from a camcorder, wasn't really good, you will learn near the end of the film that is justified but again, didn't feel neat when you see it. The budget for this film is low; you can easily guess that, especially in that Indie Film Festival scene when you realize that you are seeing another indie movie that couldn't make thinks work with its own money, because seriously, that festival looked fake. What I do love is the story, the twists and the characters.
`Dot the I' is a good film that I'd recommend viewing especially to all the Gael Bernal fans.
In this film his character is up for causing some mischief in this romantic thriller. Kit (Gael Bernal) plays a Brazilian immigrant living in London. He works odd jobs until he is provided a most fortunate opportunity. Carmen (Verbeke) moves to London to escape a troublesome past in Spain. Carmen falls in love with Barnaby (D'Arcy), a local Londoner, who eventually proposes marriage. The three end up crossing paths throughout the plot.
Personally, I find the romantic drama as a genre in dire need of a wake-up call. Films such as this one, `Closer,' `Unfaithful', `Wicker Park,' and very few others, are daring to attempt something original, whether it be a more frank look at relationships, a less clichéd or sexist view of infidelity, or a new take on the love triangle... and by new I mean new in both this film and `Wicker Park.' Rather than recycle `Shakespeare,' `Jane Austen,' or `An Affair To Remember' for the thousandth time, the director and cast has broke some new ground on this.
The efforts on direction is good, well, that style of combining the footage in film and the one extracted from a camcorder, wasn't really good, you will learn near the end of the film that is justified but again, didn't feel neat when you see it. The budget for this film is low; you can easily guess that, especially in that Indie Film Festival scene when you realize that you are seeing another indie movie that couldn't make thinks work with its own money, because seriously, that festival looked fake. What I do love is the story, the twists and the characters.
`Dot the I' is a good film that I'd recommend viewing especially to all the Gael Bernal fans.
12 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Dot the i" isn't the best film I have watched this year, but it is an engaging movie that fulfills quite well the purpose of entertaining the spectator and keeping him at the edge of his seat, due to some unexpected twists in the plot. This movie isn't too realistic, but I think it has good entertainment value.
The story isn't overly complicated. The main character is Carmen (Natalia Verbeke), a young woman who left Spain in order to escape from an abusive relationship. Carmen is about to marry Barnaby (James D'Arcy), a rich and handsome Englishman who gives her security and the hope of a good future. But something unexpected happens during her hen party, an unforeseen event that includes a highly attractive Brazilian, Kit (Gael García Bernal), and a kiss.
What will be more powerful, Carmen's wish to preserve her solid yet somewhat boring relationship with Barnaby, or the temptation of starting something new with Kit?. Watch this movie, and see what happens. Be warned, though, that not everything is as it seems.
All in all, I can say that I recommend this movie. The acting was quite good, and I specially liked Natalia Verbeke as a very temperamental Carmen. The development of the story surprised me, particularly towards the end. And, truth to be told, I love to be surprised...
Belen Alcat
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