girl with a pearl earing, how is it?
05-03-04, 08:31 PM
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girl with a pearl earing, how is it?
i wanted to see this mainly because i liked lost in translation and Scarlatte Johannson's performances in that one. what its about and is it worth renting?
05-03-04, 09:11 PM
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From IMDB:
The score is a 7.3. I feel that's a just score. The movie isn't great, but it isn't a bad movie by any means.
Griet (Johansson) is a peasant girl who is forced to work as a maid in the home of the painter Johannes Vermeer (Firth). She eventually becomes the model for what becomes one of his most famous works. Based on Tracy Chevalier's novel.
05-03-04, 09:21 PM
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The film is very good. Spare, sumptuous and erotic. A great performance by Scarlette Johansson, and absolutely stunning cinematography and art direction. It's a slow, hypnotic film, that discuss the art of painting in just as passionately as the lust in men's eyes (I love their study on lighting and the placement of objects).
05-03-04, 09:23 PM
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...well... this review gives this exceedingly boring, rather ridiculous movie 1,5 stars out of four, which I - being Dutch by birth, an admirer of Vermeer's paintings, and shocked by hearing all these supposedly "Dutch" people speaking British English, and knowing that all but a couple of Delft scenes were actually filmed in Luxemburg, or somewhere like that, but Hey! what can you do? - as I was going to say, in my usual long-winded way, I thought was waaay too generous a rating...
...otoh, America's foremost movie critic gives the movie four stars out of four... so...
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...otoh, America's foremost movie critic gives the movie four stars out of four... so...
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05-04-04, 12:05 AM
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I thought it was OK but not great by any means. Lovely to look at but somewhat empty when it's all been said and done. Scarlett Johansson and others in the cast were better than the movie itself. Worth seeing once.
**½ / ****
**½ / ****
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05-04-04, 09:08 AM
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Originally posted by Patman
And here's what some DVDTalkers thought of the film (via the search function):
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=339837
And here's what some DVDTalkers thought of the film (via the search function):
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=339837
05-04-04, 05:44 PM
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
...i searched by didn't reallize that there were 2 r's in earring.
...i searched by didn't reallize that there were 2 r's in earring.
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