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Defying the usual conventions of film, RAGE is the new cinematic creation from writer-director Sally Potter. Using a radical narrative structure focused entirely on individual performances, RAGE consists of a dynamic series of interviews, as if shot by a schoolboy on his mobile phone. He goes behind the scenes at a New York fashion show during a week in which an accident on the catwalk turns into a murder investigation. Fourteen actors, both celebrated stars and emerging talents, play characters who each have a role in the show, from the designer (Simon Abkarian) and his models (Lily Cole and Jude Law), the fashion critic (Judi Dench) and photographer (Steve Buscemi), to the fashion-house financier (Eddie Izzard) and his bodyguard (John Leguizamo). Feature Length Film (98 mins) Alternate Scenes with all major cast Interview with Sally Potter Trailer
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rage definitely isn't for everyone, if your somebody who's interested in action movies more than hard hitting dramas this is not for you. But there is something so inspiring about Sally Potters new movie Rage. She managed to take what are effectively 14 monologues and made a story with twists and turns and real emotion. This film will definitely make you think.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rage may not be a film that will comply with everybody's taste, but it is definitely a film that cannot be ignored. It has proved to us that a $100 million budget is not needed to create an exciting and thought-provoking film. Using simplistic yet effective techniques, Sally Potter has been able to connect an audience to a film in a way like no other I have seen before. There is nothing between the viewer and a range of well known actors and we truly feel like the characters are exposing themselves to us.
Throughout the film the only set up is the actor and a coloured background, but this does not take away from the story. In fact, the ability to use your imagination to construct the story away from the camera makes the film a lot more interesting. Not only this but allowing the film to be downloaded onto mobile phones was a new and innovative way of distributing the film and to get people talking about it.
Rage is an inspiring potrayal of the fashion industry and is a genuinely raw piece of film.
Throughout the film the only set up is the actor and a coloured background, but this does not take away from the story. In fact, the ability to use your imagination to construct the story away from the camera makes the film a lot more interesting. Not only this but allowing the film to be downloaded onto mobile phones was a new and innovative way of distributing the film and to get people talking about it.
Rage is an inspiring potrayal of the fashion industry and is a genuinely raw piece of film.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Rage is about the emotional power of the human face, and the pleasure comes from watching a group of very talented actors, with only the backdrop of brilliant colors and a few sound effects, create amusing, crass, self indulgent, conceited, ambitious, tender, frail, frightened and, ultimately, touching characters.
There is something of a disconnect between the venue of the "Fashion World" and the violence that erupts. It's jarring and perhaps that was the intention. While the film may have been more powerful if set in a less rarefied atmosphere, it does, nonetheless, tap into an anxiety about arbitrary violence intruding on the lives of ordinary people on buses and subways, in markets, offices, and places of religious observance around the world plunging, in an instant, one's preciously mundane life into tragic chaos. In the last scene, with a stylistic break from the rest of the film, the director focuses our attention on those small, normally unattended moments of life that give it value.
A film in which the action takes place off-screen will not be to everyone's taste, but I think anyone who likes to watch fine actors doing their job superbly will find the film rewarding.
There is something of a disconnect between the venue of the "Fashion World" and the violence that erupts. It's jarring and perhaps that was the intention. While the film may have been more powerful if set in a less rarefied atmosphere, it does, nonetheless, tap into an anxiety about arbitrary violence intruding on the lives of ordinary people on buses and subways, in markets, offices, and places of religious observance around the world plunging, in an instant, one's preciously mundane life into tragic chaos. In the last scene, with a stylistic break from the rest of the film, the director focuses our attention on those small, normally unattended moments of life that give it value.
A film in which the action takes place off-screen will not be to everyone's taste, but I think anyone who likes to watch fine actors doing their job superbly will find the film rewarding.
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Amazing Jud Law and a reassuring Judy Dench (the acting, not the character). A not developped enough Sally Potter's film. Unimpressive.
Published 10 months ago by Mag
wonderful, thought-provoking and very emotional movie
Sally Potter has done it again. This is yet another experiment that manages to be thought-provoking, very funny and very moving at the same time. Read more
Published on 15 April 2010 by A. King
The Face is a landscape depicting all kind of battles
I see all of Sally Potter's films. She is always different, new, and interesting.
I saw her latest, RAGE, at The Box, in SOHO . Read more
I saw her latest, RAGE, at The Box, in SOHO . Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2009 by Anna Vronskaya
An utter disaster - 99 minutes of innane tosh about nothing at all.
This was billed as something groundbreaking and exciting. Live Premiere, London's BFI/Southbank linking up with screens in cinemas all over the place, big name cast, new type of... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2009 by Mr. B. R. Good
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