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Candy [2006] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Neil Armfield Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish Studio: Drakes Avenue Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £3.95 as of 20/11/2009 21:21 GMT details You Save: £16.04 (80%) New (12) Used (6) from £3.95 Seller: numbertwentyfive Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 4757 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 105 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5055159277358 ASIN: B000LMPG24 Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: April 23, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » superbly acted by ledger and cornish - conveying so much emotion without words February 2, 2007 jrhartley 16 out of 19 found this review helpful This is a great film exploring the power of addiction, in drugs, in love, this film explores similar material to Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but without the use of the visual tricks. which makes them both worth a watch as this film uses a more poignant story-telling style than RfaD's aggressive clips. Obviously the nature of the material (heroin addiction) means that its not going to be the type of film where you leave the cinema beaming from ear to ear or crying with laughter, but equally the message isn't as dark as it could have been (or indeed as it was in RfaD). The score is good, the acting solid for all the major parts and despite the simple story, it keeps you interested throughout - its well paced to allow for good character development whilst still giving you the impression that you're going somewhere with it. The end is extremely poignant and believable, definitely one of the best films I saw in 2006, along with Volver and Little Miss Sunshine. Beautiful July 24, 2008 Zoe A. 2 out of 2 found this review helpful "When I first met Candy..." br /Heath Ledger gives an astounding performance as Dan, a friendly poet and the lover of painter Candy, played by Abbie Cornish, who is attracted to his bohemian lifestyle. The two are drug abusers and find themselves becoming more and more addicted to heroin, and also each other. br / br /The film makes you want to cry, both actors delivering bewilderingly beautiful performances. Dan's inability to refuse Candy anything making him a weak central charater whom we love, Ledger's calm deep voice makes Dan as real as any boy you'd meet on the street. br / br /People who compare the book to the film, should stop and marval at the film as an entity of its own - the directing is brilliant and the humor is also great. br / br /It's worth a watch by everyone and will stay in your mind for a long time. candy August 29, 2009 Jemma Louise Wild (uk) i love this film this is the film you should see before you died. another of healths best films. i can not say anything bad about this film Exquisite February 16, 2008 Anna (London) 14 out of 15 found this review helpful This is a film that will stay in my mind for a long while. Several times throughout watching it, it suddenly re-hit me that Ledger is no longer with us and it made me ache in a way I hadn't when I first heard he'd died. There's so much to talk about with Candy, but the over-riding aspect of it is the direction. br / br /Some scenes focus on Dan and Candy (Ledger and Abbie Cornish) living in bedsit squalor, strung out, bleak and dark. But other scenes glow with Summer sun-light. From sweeping slow-motion shots of golden corn swaying in the breeze, to the two lovers kissing while the sunlight tickles their faces... it's beautifully languid; it's gorgeous. And all the more bleak for it. br / br /Candy is broken up into 3 parts: Heaven, Earth and Hell. Heaven chronicles their relationship in the beginning, when heroin was a hobby, and when the bulk of their sustenance was sunshine and each other. In any other film, these 2 actors could play the jock and cheer-leader of the high-school so beautiful are they, which makes their inexorable slide into addiction all the more shocking. Earth is where they are bouncing from hit to hit, suffering and in pain, but still able to find themselves again if they tried to look. br / br /When Candy becomes pregnant, they try to go cold turkey, and they are on the very brink of coming out the other side, when she loses the baby. We are shown the still-birth baby when his dad asks to hold him, and the reactions of both Ledger and Cornish will make you curl in on yourself. Tragedy shadows them both from the opening scene, but this event is what makes them really hit rock bottom, at which point we enter the segment entitled Hell. 2 minutes into Hell, I got in my car and went for a drive. I needed to be reminded that the world is beautiful, and that I wasn't alone. Such is this movie's ability to draw you in to the isolated, tiny world of the two protaganists. br / br /Adding to the atmosphere, both beautiful and bleak, is the extraordinary score. With choral music, piano and violin concertos, all of it gentle and moving, Debussy might have scored this film were he still alive. The most poignant violin piece is slightly reminiscent of Adagio for Strings, in some ways. Different melody entirely, but with the same soaring strings that seem to sting your eyes til they inadvertently weep of their own volition. br / br /There are no twists, no turns. No jump out of your skin moments. We are carried along relatively slowly and our intelligence isn't insulted. Candy depicts the cruelties of drug addiction, and it does so exquisitely. Excellent acting raises this above the average drug addiction tale. January 10, 2008 Tonkfan 4 out of 4 found this review helpful Abbie Cornish once again proves that she is an incredibly talented young actor, and Heath Ledger is excellent too. br / br /It's a story that's been told many times before, but their portrayal of a young couple in love spiralling deeper and deeper into drug addiction is exemplary. This is a gruelling film that spares us none of the details of the humiliation and indignities addicts will put themselves through to feed their habit, yet it's told with such compassion and complete lack of judgement, that you desperately want these two young people to pull through and live 'happy ever ever'. br / br /Add to this great direction, clever camera work and a moving supporting performance from Geoffrey rush and you've got a film that's well worth watching. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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