Julian Sands,
Saffron Burrows,
Stefano Dionisi,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Kelly Macdonald
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Director Mike Figgis, creator of the Academy award-winning Leaving Las Vegas, presented this film's world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The story is made up of non-linear, interconnecte... read more
DVD Release Date: December 7, 1999
Stats: 70 reviews
This plot-free film plays like a stream of dreams. The downside is that it also feels like a film-school experiment driven by Calvin Klein ad aesthetics. The core story is about a filmmaker who has lost much more than the film's provocative title suggests. Scenes in which a curio... read more
Delicate approach on various,contemporary sexual topics,from the Adam-Eve standard to puzzling tales of liturgical beauty.Figgis' most allegorical film.
More of an artistic expression than a movie due to it's non-linear storyline and lack of a real plot. And, while this may not be for everyone, I found it to be a fine example of filmmaking. Rife with symbolism and a beautiful classical score, I would recommend this to film puri... read more
i beg of all of you..please find this movie..watch it alone..with your lover(s) and /or with friends..amazing!
The material is... indulgent. The film is ambitious, but somehow incomplete.
It seems more like a student film turned in as a project assignment. Full Review
One of the worst films ever made.
...Figgis -- one of the most interesting and meticulous directors around -- has made a genuinely boring and confusing movie.
I see [Figgis's] point, and I appreciate what he tried ... but it left me cold. Full Review
Explores the twists and turns of sexual desire in the life of an English film director born in South Africa. Full Review
A turgid, rotten bore that pretty much signals the death of "art" cinema as we know it. Full Review
So personal as to be self-indulgent, so self-indulgent as to make not a single iota of sense to anyone but Figgis, this admittedly captivating but wholly incoherent and utterly baffling experience wil... Full Review
It's a shame that Figgis has so little purpose for all this painterly loveliness. Full Review
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