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Franklyn [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Director: Gerald McMorrow Actors: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Bernard Hill, Sam Riley, Susannah York Studio: E1 Films Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £5.80 as of 21/11/2009 03:25 GMT details You Save: £10.19 (64%) New (17) Used (6) from £5.80 Seller: Stella_For_Venus Rating: 15 reviews Sales Rank: 3501 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: 94 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5030305512293 ASIN: B001TEKJUC Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Release Date: June 22, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 15 1 2 3 Next » brilliant !!! June 28, 2009 raven (Uk) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Franklyn is better than i could have even dreamt of . I was worried about the the alternative reality scenes being few and far between due to the budget. But there are more than enough ofthese to keep me satified and theworld looks great too. br /the story is brilliantly woven between the two worlds, in a way that puts hollywood blockbusters who try and do this to shame! br /the cast to a man(and woman) are excellent and play all there tortured souls very well ! br /also some very subtle and clever touches and 'digs' in the alternative reality world about religions and consumerisim. I love the 'peeler' retro uniform of the cleric police force too. br /an excellent british film . br / br / Buy this DVD. Now. Go on. Now! June 23, 2009 Mr. Pa Smith (A kennel in York) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Where to start in the fulsome praise I intend to heap on this film? The script is inventive, intelligent and original. The cast is wonderful, and yes, Eva Green CAN act! Not just look pretty! Lesser actresses could have turned her character/s into annoying caricatures, but she infuses them with a life and dignity which makes them tragic and compelling. Bernard Hill could bring dignity and gravitas to a live-action Tom and Jerry movie, and as always is excellent. Even pretty-boy American Ryan Phillipe turns in the performance of a lifetime, and not just because he wears a mask for most of the movie! br / The production design is remarkable, on a par with Gilliam at his best. Photography beautiful, giving even the most squalid locations a tinge of loss, portent and savage beauty. br / Most movies could do with 10-20 minutes cut out of them, blockbusters generally 30-45 minutes, but the only criticism I have of this one is that it felt too damn short. And it's BRITISH! Yes folks, made in the UK! br / Plot wise, it's four interwoven stories about tragedy and loss woven together finally in contemporary London, but that doesn't do it justice. Some may argue the ending is ambiguous, but for me it was Capraesque in its life affirming quality. br / It's the greatest movie produced this century so far. Buy it. br / Buy it now. br / You'll never regret it. br / Buy it. Go on, review's over. Buy! Now! Extreme Creativity October 1, 2009 Sean Mcmullen (Australia) On the surface Franklyn looks like a film about isolation, but speaking as an author what really impressed me was its power as a statement about creativity. One character creates a person, another creates a world, but a third has a lot of trouble creating anything. I thought that it resolved those three subplots very convincingly. It also has the best Gothic cityscape I have seen since Dark City, as well as great theme music. Some people might find the ending a bit bleak, but I found it strangely optimistic. Somehow, it works... June 26, 2009 Diziet (Hull, UK) 9 out of 10 found this review helpful This is a strange film. The first time I watched it, after about 20 minutes, I thought I'd made a mistake - it seemed directionless and disjointed. But I stuck with it. At the end, I thought 'I've got to watch that again'. br / br /The second time I watched it, I was engrossed from the beginning. It is a really beautiful film, and so, so sad. It's about four damaged people. It's about delusion and illusion. A girl who is trying to make suicide into an art form, a young man whose fiancée didn't turn up for their marriage, a man looking for his son and mourning the death of his daughter. All these people inhabit a thoroughly mundane London. But the fourth lives in Meanwhile City - where everyone, except him, has a religion and non-believers are hunted by the police. The police look like old-fashioned 'Peelers' with high top-hats and dark glasses. Meanwhile City is very reminiscent of Brazil. But the religions are not fanatical - how about 'The Seventh Day Manicurists' - it's simply that you must have one. br / br /The story cuts from the dark, Gothic Meanwhile City straight to the broad daylight concrete ordinariness of Centre Point - it's really jarring and unwelcome, but slowly the stories start to intertwine, the motives and backgrounds start becoming clearer - and the gradually unfolding tragedy becomes more and more compelling. And the end had me in tears. br / br /It's not a sci-fi film, whatever it may be billed as. It's a story about damaged people trying to make sense of what's happened and is happening to them - it's just extreme. br / br /Honestly, it's a mess of a film but it's somehow beautiful, entrancing too. It stays with you. I've got to watch it again. Under-reviewed July 6, 2009 Jeff Cotton (London United Kingdom) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This film did not get well reviewed on release, but I have to admit that I liked it a lot. There are three characters in three plot strands set in present day London. They are all people dealing with loss and vacancies in their lives. The forth character is also dealing with a similar painful loss, but his way of coping is to retreat into an alternative city, called Meanwhile, and so his strand is distinctly sci-fi. This vaguely steam-punky (and very Gothic) city is neatly meshed with the real London, with regard to both the plot and how the vast computer-created vistas blend with bits of real London. There's much filming around the Naval College in Greenwich, as ever, with the roofscape of the Victoria and Albert Museum featuring too, I think, and the interior of the Royal Courts of Justice. I think that if this film had done without the sci-fi bits and had a name like Michael Winterbottom attached to it it would've got better reviews, and been very much less interesting. Showing reviews 1-5 of 15 1 2 3 Next »

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