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Mood:
- BleakContemplativeTenseEmotional
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Plot:
- PsychologicalHaunted By the PastLife is a BitchMind and SoulJournalismCouple RelationsHomecomingCouples
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodWar
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- IrelandBattle Zone
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Style:
- Twists and Turns
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Triage, 2009
English
Ireland, Spain, Belgium, France
Profile of Triage
The mood of Triage is bleak, tense, and contemplative. The plot centers around being haunted by the past, psychological motives, and themes of life is a bitch. It is a drama, period, and war movie. Stylistically, Triage involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Triage takes place, at least partly, in a battlezone. The setting is Ireland. It happens in the 1980s. Triage is based on a book.
Summary of Triage
Colin Farrell plays Mark Walsh, a war photographer in the late eighties. Home in Dublin between assignments, he shares a few laughs at the pub with his friend and fellow photographer David (Jamie Sives) and the women in their lives, but they all know it's only a matter of time before Mark's no-nonsense editor (Juliet Stevenson) sends him back into the fray. This time it's Kurdi-stan – and David goes with him.High in the arid mountains pursuing a war without borders, Mark and David witness and capture horrendous images, from combatants pulverized by ammunition, to a doctor who works heroically to save the wounded but shoots dead those he knows he can't help. Worse, the friends begin to disagree over whether to stay or flee the chaos. Eventually they separate and lose contact, and Mark must return home to Ireland alone.The scene where Mark arrives back in Dublin to surprise his Spanish wife, Elena (Paz Vega), is a lovely, erotic interlude. But soon the tension builds again. He is increasingly alienated and volatile, and startlingly thin (Farrell lost over forty pounds for the role). Desperate, Elena brings her grandfather over from Spain.As played by the legendary Christopher Lee, Dr. Joaquin Morales is a fearsome man. A psychiatrist who worked under Franco's fascist regime, he specialized in healing murderers. In a series of gripping encounters that are the real heart of this film, he challenges Mark to release his guilt over what happened in Kurdistan.Triage is a slow burn, gathering more and more emotional impact as it goes. Working at the centre of this moving character study, Farrell is terrific. But it is Lee, in perhaps his most detailed dramatic performance of a very long career, who is the revelation.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland, Spain, Belgium, France |
| Release date: | 9 November 2009 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
Cast and Crew
as Staff Nurse Marion Picard
as Dr. Talzani
as Dr. Hersbach
as Stewardess
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Users Reviews
- 21.April.2010
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- by: barak gilon
- barak gilon rated this movie6/10Okay
