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  • Starring: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin
  • Summary: A supernatural romance, this film probes the mystifying nature of attraction, memory, identity and a ghostly past that will not go away. (Paramount Classics)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 24
  2. Negative: 6 out of 24
  1. Like the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.
  2. There's a somber tone to Petroni's work here--enhanced by Roger Lanser's shadowy cinematography and handicapped a bit by a schmaltzy Hollywood-type score--and there's also plenty of episodic life stuff.
  3. Pearce and Bonham Carter are remarkably photogenic, but the movie is fitful and mannered to a fault, full of watery allusions and stormy scares.
  4. 38
    There must still be a kind of moony young adolescent girl for which this film would be enormously appealing, if television has not already exterminated the domestic example of that species.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. Too heavy, too melodramatic, too unreal. People do not talk or act like that in real life. There is no change of pace, everything is so deep and significant that, together with the soundtrack, in the end, nothing is. I am not a big Guy Pearce fan either, he is almost always completely lifeless, bloodless, almost like a robot. Expand

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