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Puffball [2006] [DVD]
 
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Puffball [2006] [DVD]

Miranda Richardson , Kelly Reilly , Nicolas Roeg    Suitable for 18 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Miranda Richardson, Kelly Reilly, Donald Sutherland, Rita Tushingham
  • Directors: Nicolas Roeg
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Yume Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Feb 2009
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001CHG07M
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,759 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Legendary director Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bad Timing, Eureka) directs PUFFBALL, a chilling tale of love, lust and loss in rural Ireland. Set in an isolated valley where a young ambitious architect (Kelly Reilly - Mrs Henderson Presents; Eden Lake) buys a ruined building to transform and renovate. But the dwelling has a tragic history... When she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant the neighbouring farmers turn against her and her unborn child, and try to change the course of nature. A drama with supernatural overtones, a thriller about love, life, grief and sex, PUFFBALL is an adaptation of the Fay Weldon novel of the same name. The film also stars Miranda Richardson (The Crying Game, Sleepy Hollow) and '60's icon Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey) - and re-unites Roeg with Hollywood star Donald Sutherland for the first time since Don't Look Now.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Don't Look Now director Nicholas Roeg steps back behind the camera for the first time in fifteen years to weave this macabre tale of a young architect who finds her unborn child in danger after moving deep into the Irish countryside. Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) has had enough of the big city, and now she's looking to escape her overbearing boss (Donald Sutherland) by moving to the hills of Ireland with her American boyfriend Richard (Oscar Pearce) and restoring a crumbling cottage. The previous inhabitants of the cottage are the Tuckers, who have since taken up residence at a nearby farm. Mabs Tucker (Miranda Richardson) is mother to three ethereal daughters, though her desire to have a son is evident from the first moment she meets her new neighbors. Something about the Tuckers just doesn't seem right to Liffrey and her suspicious beau, and when Liffrey becomes pregnant the mood around their cottage becomes downright ominous. It seems that Mabs' mother Molly (Rita Tushingham) has been dabbling in magic in order to ensure herself a grandson, and soon it's revealed that eldest daughter Audrey (Leona Igoe) possesses some strange, otherworldly powers. As the word about Liffrey's pregnancy begins to spread, the Tucker women become convinced that the unborn child was actually intended for Mabs, and their willing to do whatever it takes to claim the baby as their own. ...Puffball ( Puffball: The Devil's Eyeball )

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Nicolas Roeg's discordant anti-thriller 'Puffball' is an eerie tale of conception and covert coupling filmed in his unmistakable style; not even slightly mellowed or distilled for the 21st Century.
Still powerful with a driving erotic charge - still taking the everyday and ordinary and making it seem strange.

'Puffball's plot is simple but intelligent (yes readers, you've got to THINK about this one, sorry...); mad-stare Mabs is desperate for another child; she has 3 girls already and longs for a boy. Her mother Molly, a slightly Wiccan mad-woman troubled by a tragic event in her past, decides to assist using an ancient hex but inadvertently knocks up a completely different woman - Liffey - a lithe architect renovating a nearby cottage.
Much angst and intrigue ensues as the two ladies (and their respective spouses) go head to head in a psychological and symbolic battle for the unborn child.

Into this already heated environ Roeg introduces much organic and biological detail; eye-popping real sex sequences (filmed inside the women!) insinuating a supernatural connection between the rush of sperm flooding the cervix - and the releasing of the giant puffball's spores (the old witch's element in her increasingly eccentric spells); the dominant symbol of fertility throughout the film.

Kelly Riley is lustrously sexy as Liffey; her physicality proving the catalyst for the dream-like events which unfold following her arrival.
Miranda Richardson is the delusional Mabs, driven to fluence and unorthodoxy in her frantic attempts to conceive.
Molly is played with skanky wraithishness by Rita Tushingham; all woodland twitchery and phallic enchantments, desperate in the belief that her own pain will ultimately pass if she can cause Mabs to cop for a womb-full.

There are some blokes about the place but they're not really important beyond occasionally donating copious amounts of man-seed to further facilitate the story-line.
This is a women's film - and it's not a rom-com. (!)

Serious adult themes are addressed and enlarged upon from the female perspective with no sense of voyeurism or amusement. Sex is presented grittily and naturalistically - there's no sweeping orchestra and mounting soft-focus passion for Liffey. Even so, she behaves responsibly; using a condom while making out with her boyfriend only to find its effectiveness has been compromised by witchery - and into the bun-club she swiftly goes - much to her initial horror.
She then drunkenly gets it rough on a straw lined barn floor from Mabs' handyman husband - fuelled by fire-water home-brew and secretive fertility rituals performed in the woods by Molly and a naked virgin..(oo er..!)...
At this point Donald Sutherland pops his head round the door for a cameo, just as the films final disturbing twists and turns find their marks...

'Puffball' is intense. If I've made it sound like rural-porn - I apologise, but without the sex scenes the film would lose a lot of its impact and distinctive tone.

The cast are universally fab, the low-key special effects are memorable and Roeg's laissez-faire direction indicates powerfully the genius of 'Walkabout' and 'Don't Look Now' is still bubbling: alive with ideas and purpose.

And of course there's a moral: if you're thinking of messing with Mother Nature in her wisdom - don't.
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On the face of it Puffball is an eerie tale of Witchcraft and the Old Gods still in operation in 21st century Ireland ,and read simply like this it conveys much power taking us through the images of Mythological woman(crones,fertile maidens,and virgins)into an exploration of what it means to be female.But what I think it is really about is the inabilty of us all to secound guess life.Almost every plan laid down by every character in this film comes to nothing,fate thwarts them and then gives them little crumbs of comfort to be getting on with and then the film moves on(much like life).It is only when the old dies that harmonisation occurs between what had previously been disparate parts and all this overseen by the young girl who has knowledge of what must be done to see out the old.As Roeg says in the making of puffball documentary that accompanies the film."Do you know what God laughs at? People who make plans!"-Buy this Dvd its head and shoulders above any tedious so called horror film out there!
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great dvd 30 Aug 2010
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kelly rielly is really good in this thriller, not as good as in Eden lake. I think she is one of the best actresses out just now and this dvd is well worth a look
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