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The Sleeping Dictionary [DVD] [2003]
enlarge	Director: Guy Jenkin Actors: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Ling Lee Ian Studio: Entertainment in Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £2.24 as of 21/11/2009 06:37 GMT details You Save: £17.75 (89%) New (14) Used (4) from £2.24 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 11483 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 105 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5017239191510 ASIN: B00009PAAI Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Release Date: March 29, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: The Sleeping Dictionary review February 25, 2004 17 out of 21 found this review helpful This is a beautiful film. Full of passion. I just had to keep watching it over and over again. Music is great too - very provokative. Well worth watching. Not many features on the dvd though, but the film definately makes up for it! Unexpected excellence July 28, 2009 Frequent gazer (Sweden) Although I already had a high opinion of Jessica Alba (on the basis of Dark Angel), this film made me revise it upwards quite a bit. It shows that she can do something quite different, in an excellent manner. From the moment she appeared, she held my attention in a firm grip. The other actors are well cast and do a good job. The only negative thing is a minor hole in the plot line: the final action of the commissioner's wife is out of character, a complete act of madness. I think that this could have been solved in another, more consistent way. great! June 4, 2004 27 out of 31 found this review helpful This movie is set in Sarawak in the 30's, and being from around this area, i can see how close to the truth it is! Although Alba is of a hispanic mix, she plays the character of an Iban girl very well, including the accent! Dancy is also..ahem yummy and really knows how to play the naive Englishman! I recomend this movie to all who enjoy love stories like this. Definately a ladies movie! Ethnic is beautiful provided we appreciate it with love October 25, 2006 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 13 out of 35 found this review helpful The English will go on harping on their colonial past for quite many decades still. That past is for them a source of guilt and they cannot erase it or even alleviate it enough to accept it as past and no longer that pregnant with meaning. In this case we are in Sarawak. A young British officer is provided with a native woman who is supposed to teach him the local language in bed. But this is absolutely secret and even denied, even among people who actually know. The young officer of course is supposed to take advantage of the situation then marry a good English girl to abide by his national duty. And that's it. The film of course takes the case in which the young officer falls in love with the girl. Rejection, fake accusations, everything will be used to force the English officer to do his duty, and to get the native girl and other natives out of the way. And yet the film moves forward onto a rather sentimentalese ending that avoids the tragic force it could have had. It also avoids really discovering the native surrounding culture that remains anecdotal, exotic and rather simplified in feelings. Apart from that it is a rewriting of Romeo and Juliet but with the happy ending of an escape into the wilderness. Furthermore, the film points out the real negative dimension of this colonialism : to force a foreign culture, a foreign language and even a foreign life style onto people who should have been able to righteously keep their language, their culture and their life style and evolve from what could appear as a primitive civilization to a more advanced state but on their own logic and dynamic. No one has the right to force any people to adopt a mode of thinking and a life style that does not come from their own heritage and tradition. br / br /

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