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Read somewhere here... A film to a must to see...If I may say so...
So:The first half an hour terribly slow and you have to keep an eye on the screen not to think at somewhat else.
After that it is a film you have to take care of, it is asking you full attention and concentration.
But I can not take this film seriously.
It can not work on me, if you are an adult, you can only smile at the fact that the tragedy here rely on a father sleeping with his son daughter...A Greek tragedy in the 21t century?
No way, all this is just smoke on the water, or better said, in your face.
A very good " fake film " after the first half an hour...Laughable at its pretention...I could go on and on but it is not worth the effort...
PS: The most clever editing but annoying I have seenin a film for a long time.
" Mieux vaut une tęte bien faite qu'une tęte bien pleine."
Edits: 06/02/08Follow Ups:
Are you sure we watched the same movie?
Dear me, Patrick, I confess I was the one who recommended this film.
Obviously I must respectfully disagree with your assessment (and about DAAF too).
Based on a celebrated (if now somewhat dated) Kiwi novel of the same name, IMFD showed at a local film fest about 3 years ago - I was knocked out by the performances of Matthew Macfadyen as the emotionally damaged Paul and Emily Barclay as the open and direct Celia, the young girl with whom he strikes a friendship.
The film is about secret places, the most secret of all being within the human heart. IMFD won the critics' prize at Toronto FF and several other awards. Director Brad McGann died of cancer only a few months after his film made the festival rounds so this is his first and only movie, made on a shoestring.
IMFD is one of the more interesting Kiwi movies of late, reminiscent of other films from down under such as Sommersault and especially Lantana, with which it shares a similar structure. I wouldn't rate it as highly as Kiwi gems Once Were Warriors, An Angel At My Table or Heavenly Creatures - McGann's script sometimes allows the book's symbolism to overwhelm the delicate balance between thriller plot and emotional temperature taking. However, I can easily forgive IMFD its flaws (which I won't go into detail about for fear of spoilers) for its virtues, chief of which is the fine ensemble acting and its escalating intensity as the protagonists' forbidden pasts intertwine with their blasted futures.
IMFD is visually striking lending the landscape a specifity of place - cinematography is from the DP of The Piano. The natural beauty of the surroundings is in sharp contrast to the twisted emotions of its inhabitants. IMFD perfectly catches the flat, self-congratulatory insularity of a provinsial backwater. The ecclectic score is rather lovely too, culled from LPs from the titular den - Patti Smith's "Horses" features prominenetly.
Suffice to say, IMFD's layered darkness won't be for everyone. The "answers first, questions later structure" demands you pay attention. While this happens to be a structure I'm particularly smitten with - I love twiets and surprised - it will not be your cuppa. But the movie will amply reward those with the patience to get past the first reel. Recommended to those who like their mysteries layed like an onion - anyone who enjoyed Lantana might well give IMFD a look.
Here is a pretty good take on its many virtues and possible flaws - I don't quite agree with the critic's take on the film's final section but it's a fair assessment:
No confession! I am GLAD for every film that make my day!
Or better said who could, He-he...
So thank you!
Most critics I read after posting and seing this film agreed with..You.
But of course they are all wrong...
I read four or five of them and in fact only one did go in the way my feeling and understanding were leading me.
I did not know that the director died and that is terrible as he was very promising.
The real flaw is I think the novel itself. It may be so.
The moral values are just dated and if something like this would happen ( father sleeping with son´s girlfriend and a resulting kid, nobody would be shocked today, is it not so? )
And that destroy my pleasure, also the lethargy of the principal character, is it so difficult to tell
his ( at the moment he tought it would be so ) that he may be her father, instead of letting planed this incest on her young soul?
Letting her fall in love with, by then, her brother..
No the whole situatio is not how should I say, not neat, and the people moving here are all unfree, un- adult.
I try to make my best to expalin why I could not support your positive view of it, in my unative language.
BUT again that film is more than worth to have a look at it.
" Mieux vaut une tęte bien faite qu'une tęte bien pleine."
"terribly slow"
"I can not take this film seriously"
"Laughable at its pretention...I could go on and on but it is not worth the effort..."
"The most clever editing but annoying I have seenin a film for a long time."
Patrick, are you sure you want us to see this movie? ;-)
HA-HA!!!!No I want to hear the one who saw it telling me it is not true..
I must edit my post...This film is really worth to see, because it is a debut from a director, and not a bad one!
Maybe the " best " in the last months I saw.
Thatis also why I am very har on this, it could have been so much better without that false moral..
" Mieux vaut une tęte bien faite qu'une tęte bien pleine."
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