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Rating:  - A Beautiful and Haunting Love Story
This has become one of my favorite all-time films. Billy Crudup gives one of the best performances by an actor I have EVER seen. (Crudup's phonecall scene that takes place in his kitchen late at night is heartbreaking, and i cant think of another actor who would've been as effective in this role.)
The best thing about this Love Story is that it shows ALL Aspects of the main couple's relationship (including the fights, which a lot of bigger films AVOID). The fact that this film shows us the nooks and crannies of the their relationship makes its impact that much deeper. (Where most films fake a relationship through a series of skits set to a pop song, a la "Big Fat Greek Wedding" or ANY Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts Movie, this film actually allows its leads to have conversations - GREAT WRITING.) Connelly is wonderful too, remaining just mysterious and emotional enough to add heft to the "mystery" of the film.
This movie was so sadly ignored by audiences and by most critics (maybe it was too real?), when all involved deserve high recognition for creating such a deeply moving and intense film experience.
Rating: - A Masterfully Powerful Film
I just returned from seeing this film. I viewed it at my college's Film Club. I had never heard of this movie but I think Jennifer Connelly is a great actress, so I was eager to see another movie with her in it. This movie is a powerful mixture of radical and conformal political ideologies. I would go so far as to compare these two fields to Capulets and Montagues in the love story that is intertwined into the plot. What I liked most about this film was the artful taste to leave the end up to the viewer. In the end believe what you wish, only know this is a film experience to be had. Five stars all the way.
Rating: - Waking the Dead
I saw this movie and it was so moving and compelling, why oscars weren't nominated i do not know. After watching this film it inspired me to read the book, which is more often than not, remarkably better. Not in this case, the director kept every important detail of the book in the film, they are acurrately similar. Billy Crudup, who always moves me with his perforamces, particularly this one which his character is not able to cope with the loss of his girlfriend, played by Jennifer Connelly. After her oscar win, i hope that this doesn't mean that she will give up on low budget projects, for she is amazing in this film, the audience has a hard coping with her loss as well. If you like dramatic films, you will surely not be disappointed in this one!
Rating: - A Moving Story of Love and Commitment
This is one of the most intelligent and moving love stories released in a long time. Both Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly are excellent in their portrayals of lovers with the same desires, but different fates.
Rating: - Absolutely mesmerizing...Real life, at last!
Very few movies remain in your mind long, long after the curtain falls. Waking the Dead shall be considered a masterpiece of historic, as well as behavioral standpoint. From mid 60's to late 70's, the World has changed in a way we - the baby boomers, cannot forget, yet we find an intense difficulty to forward those values to today's generations. As I was a grown man at the time, the film touches me particularly through the process of bringing back the political process in the Americas by then.
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba and the US were in turmoil: in politics, in the Arts, everywhere. However, we still remained deeply marked by a certain blend of idealism, naiveness and a remarkable determination to correctness in every aspect of Life. Those values seem to have vanished in present times!
This said, it becomes easier to understand the script behind the scenes and the disturbances in Fielding's mind. Crudup's interpretation should have earned him the Oscar, but not alone.
Jennifer Connelly's Sarah was so real that has trascended her natural and amazing beauty to produce a couple in love which rarely exists today.
Their love scenes approached moments of ECTASY very few actor/actresses have the power to produce so realisticaly. Jennifer's path to her deserved Oscar with A Beatiful Mind was clearly set thereat.
One must have lived those experiences to understand that everything in the movie looks like watching tapes - of real life - long buried in his/her mind.
Thank you Gordon, for this movie!
Thank you Crudup, for your remarkable talent and for reminding us of cruel times and the victory of love over them;
Thank you, Jennifer, for making us forget your amazing beauty and concentrate on your mesmerizing Sarah.
An absolute marterpiece!
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