What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
There’s lots to like about Birth – above all the slow, lugubrious, glacial tone, and (for a mainstream film) the unusual and very effective use of long takes. But it’s also too derivative (we can take Nicole Kidman’s Rosemary’s Baby haircut, but we do we really need a copycat scene of Barry Lyndon attacking Lord Bullingdon?), and the film in the end just winds down, quite dissatisfyingly.
by Ian Johnston | Source: New Line DVD
19 Dec 2005 3:18 PM | Submit Comment