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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: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001CHG07M
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,489 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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Directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Nicolas Roeg (DON'T LOOK NOW, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH), PUFFBALL is the chilling yet captivating story of loss, love and lust set against the beautiful backdrop of the Irish countryside. When a young architect (Kelly Reilly – MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, EDEN LAKE) purchases a ruined building in order to develop, she soon discovers its four walls shroud a tragic history. Her feeling on unease escalates when she finds herself pregnant and the locals begin to turn against her and her unborn child...

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5.0 out of 5 stars And Down Will Come Baby....., 1 April 2009
By Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews
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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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Ah Go on, 13 Aug 2008
Altogether not a very bad film !!!!!! if i only knew what the hell it was about. Good cinematography, and scenery , and the acting is not bad either. Perhaps its just me but i lost the plot, then thought i had it back but no, gone again. It felt as though i could do with a bottle of whatever it was they drink ( youll see ). If anyone does know what its about please tell me Ah go on, go on, go on, go on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the critics buy this dvd!!!, 5 Nov 2009
By M. Coote "boz" (England) - See all my reviews
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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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