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Mood:
- AtmosphericContemplativeSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Dealing With DeathPsychologicalReincarnationDishonestyLife is a BitchLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouples more...
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Genres:
- DramaMystery
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- New York
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- Brief NudityProfanity
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Birth, 2004
English
USA, Germany
Profile of Birth
Birth can be described as contemplative, atmospheric, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around reincarnation, dealing with death, and psychological motives. The main genres are drama and mystery. In approach, Birth is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in New York. Birth takes place in contemporary times. Note that it involves brief nudity and profanity.
Summary of Birth
Nicole Kidman teams up with director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST) to deliver some sensitive subject matter in BIRTH. Kidman stars as Anna, a wealthy widower preparing to remarry 10 years after the sad, premature death of her husband. She inhabits a vast apartment in New York City, which is owned by her protective mother, Eleanor (Lauren Bacall), who quickly gathers Anna under her protective wing whenever trouble comes calling. Anna's fiancé Joseph (Danny Huston) also resides in the austere apartment, where a party is thrown to celebrate the impending wedlock of the happy couple. An unwelcome visitor in the shape of 10-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) crashes the festivities, cornering Anna and claiming to be her departed husband. After a derisory reaction from Anna, events take a strange twist when Sean continues to hound the widower, revealing facts that only her late husband could possibly know. Emotions pour out of Anna, with Kidman delivering an exemplary performance as she manages to simultaneously convey grief, confusion, and the overwhelming feeling of loss that Anna had all but buried. Becoming ever more convinced of Sean's authenticity, Anna risks losing everything as Joseph and Eleanor attempt to debunk the veracity of the 10-year-old's claims, but fight a losing battle as Anna's old feelings reawaken and blossom into a palpable flourish of love and desire.
Director Glazer packs a haunting visual punch throughout BIRTH, drawing on the stunning work of cinematographer Harris Savides to present a bleak, almost monochromatic vision of New York. The script from longtime Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière and cowriter Milo Addica handles what could have been a controversial topic with taste and dignity, but the movie really belongs to Kidman, who once again proves her acting chops with a stimulating performance.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 23 October 2004 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
Cast and Crew
as Anna
as Joseph
as Eleanor
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Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kenneth Turan
USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
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