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The film takes place in France during the era of Cardinal Richelieu and The Three Musketeers stories and follows an immoral priest and nuns who are alleged to be witches. The film is packed with unbelievably graphic violent, sexual, and sacrilegious content. It was not given good reviews and is viewed as among the most controversial films ever made. The sexual revolution of the 1960’s led to an explosion of films, particularly in Europe, that examined the subject.
The film is considered an example of abject art, where art is detached from social norms. The Vietnam war, notorious for its brutality and horror, has been the subject of an immense number of films that seek to comment on war and the psychological effects of it. Few achieve this as deeply and transfixingly as 1978’s The Deer Hunter. It follows the experience of three soldiers captured by North Vietnam who are forced to play Russian roulette for the entertainment of their captors. Although successful and acclaimed, it was immensely controversial for it’s depiction of the North Vietnamese and the United States’ role in the war.
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Don't tell the critics that, they would rather we spend our time watching depressing, pessimistic drivel with politically correct messages. And this movie, made my daughter of Nancy Meyers (The Holiday, It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want) delivers a nice little tale. Most people don't read Dostoevsky while sipping margaritas (those kinds of people would be cool to meet, come to think of it...) And here, hey, you want a pizza night movie, this works. I'd rather watch something like this and smile at the end, as opposed to a rave review film that would have me reaching for Prozac.
Sure, a movie about man giving up what he thought defined him for the woman he loves seems like the bare bones of any number of Hallmark Christmas movies, but it is not enough to make a Christmas movie on its own. The 1960’s saw the beginning of a major societal shift in how homosexuality was viewed. Few films embodied this better than the 1961 British movie Victim. The plot is centered around a highly successful barrister (or lawyer as he would be called in the U.S.) who has a relationship with another man.
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In the end, the movie is more about Alice starting her life over, but the romantic elements are still there, they’re just not in your face. Someone may have thought the way the film is wrapped up was clever and refreshing for a film of this genre, but it’s honestly just one awkward conclusion. Home Again exists so far from reality that 15 minutes into the movie, maybe less, people will mentally check out. The other half of the story involves three young wannabe-filmmakers who are trying to get a script through the movie-making machinery of Hollywood. They meet her in a bar on the night she’s celebrating her 40th birthday and, before long, we learn that the guys have no money and nowhere to stay, so naturally, Reese is cajoled into letting them live in her guest house. The film is cute and funny and light, with really nice messages about love and dreams and family, giving it a classic romantic comedy feel that is the definition of a comfort watch.
It doesn't matter that the three young men who move into the guest house are all unemployed film artists living in one of the most expensive cities in the nation. Everything is cheerful and upbeat with the characters having lavish and long meals at home or in posh restaurants. Even a fist fight between one of the young men and Alice's husband is a light-hearted affair.
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It was received very badly at the time, due to its controversial content, but since has become more widely respected and lauded in film circles. The next day, Alice’s mother brings the girls back home earlier than expected, and they all run into each other, catching everyone off guard. After one of the young filmmakers, George, accidentally stumbles upon all of her father’s old film paraphernalia, he realizes who Alice and her mom really are. Alice’s mother, fascinated by these young aspiring artists, invites them to stay for breakfast and then indefinitely.
Parents will want to gauge how ready kids are to talk about moving on from a failed marriage into a new concept of family. It's her 40th birthday, and she's a chipper lady recently separated from her music industry husband and moved with their two daughters from New York to Los Angeles. Alice is in full "starting over" mode, including kicking off a new home decorating business.
Naturally, Alice intervenes, and she sends the guys packing, much to Austen's delight. No sooner have they left the premises than Alice lowers the boom on Austen and asks for a divorce. This past summer’s The Big Sick briefly resuscitated the romantic comedy in a surprisingly subversive way, but the ailing genre is back on life support in the instantly forgettable Home Again.
The film was notorious for some explicit scenes featuring Carter. Horror films, by their very nature of trying to induce shock and terror in the viewing audience, have long been renowned for their ability to push the limits of what is deemed publicly acceptable on screen. The 1963 British horror movie The Wicker Man was no exception.
The characters in Home Again are easy going, fun, kind and there are a few lessons learned along the way - Alice gets her priorities sorted, the filmmaker trio mature as friends. My only criticism is that the story could have tied in the importance/presence of the filmmaker father more. We are introduced to him in the beginning and there are a few nods to him along the way, but it would have been more interesting to learn how his influence shaped his daughter's life, the decisions she made. My only critique here, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying this movie.
It’s popularity amongst young people and thereafter inspiration of copycat acts of violence similar to the film led to Kubrick going as far to request that the film be pulled from theatres in the United Kingdom. We the viewers ask for something different, and here's the one. Only on the characters, but the story was pretty much the same like about jealousness.
An entertaining but forgettable film, Home Again has no ambition or passion to it. Witches and other traditional elements of folklore have long served as inspiration for horror films. The 1960 Italian horror picture Black Sunday tells the tale of a 17th century Moldavian witch who curses the descendants of her executioners and comes back to life centuries later. The film was controversial due to extremely graphic sexual and violence-based scenes.
