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What do you think she meant when she said “a huge black monster with giant claws”?
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
