Reviews

Very disappointing to me: what's going on? What are we waiting for? Some guy was snoring a few seats away. Just loved the song that run through the credits (may was just happy that it was over)

I'm surprised no other has seen nine queens is actually a spin-off, or, better, a parody of "House of Games". The analysis of the differences between the two movies is a very interesting subject i submit to all imdb addicts and con-movies experts. I have to admit that, following Mamet's plot, i fell in bielinsky's trap exactly as i suspect he expected me to.

Avalon combines ideas from previous movies only to deteriorate them, to oxydate them, to corrugate them to a point where this movie has become a reminiscence, and where this melancholy has become a central subject, aptly conveyed by cold blooded postwar Poles. It's scary.

This slow paced hard to swallow melodrama fails to give any hint at why a son would turn his own mother in to the police, what one might think it wanted to handle. The characters lack psychological consistency ; they are as thin as the plot. What's left? A few glimpses at smoky cold North China country life.

Whereas "Lost Highway" was psychoanalytical, dwelling on our most archaic fears, precise after all, "Mulholland Dr.", abbreviated as it is, possibly willing to evoke what cannot be described, angst, turns out to be surrealistic and thus may explain why and how there is a bridge between the discoveries of Sigmund Freud (subconsciousness and dreams) and the art of Dali and Bunuel (collage and role playing). It's hard to figure, though, whether that drift is decadence or not.

I found the exaggerated ambivalence of every character, in a somewhat documentarish setting, very manipulative and disturbing. What is the purpose of it all? "Yi Yi" looks like your HBO miniseries (where you would have to watch all three episodes in one sitting), but it conveys a negative feeling that i found hard to wipe off. That is also what makes it interesting.