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Mar. 8th, 2004 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbTwo performances I've really enjoyed, although I can't unequivocally recommend the films:
Spectres is the story of a great teenage character struggling to break out of a kind of muddled ghost story. Lauren Birkell makes the central role sullen, witty, angry, and full of unwanted energy with no place to go--instantly recognizable from any high school. She's also given the best dialogue in the film, which is a good thing because she's in almost every scene. The movie's at its worst when it takes its metaphysics seriously, but I enjoyed watching the more everyday parts. Official site, Cinequest page (trailer, scene), IMDb page.
If Birkell shines in Spectres, Patricia Kovács practically is the Hungarian movie Down by Love. As the movie opens Eva is arriving at her apartment after a vacation, and with two brief exceptions she never leaves it. People come to the door wanting favors or offering help, and we hear but never see them. Her only other human contact is on the telephone with friends, family members, and a lover who is bad news. The whole story is her gradual emotional unraveling--it's kind of confusing, and kind of contrived (every character seems to have at least two relationships to Eva), but Kovács shows that disintegration in every moment, and it's fascinating. Official site, Cinequest page, IMDb page.
Both Kovács and Birkell are relatively unknown. Birkell is in some upcoming episodes of "Six Feet Under" and a horror movie of the also-starring-Bruce-Campbell variety. Let's hope for the best. And Kovács, well, not many Hungarian films get released over here, but she should be in some of them.
Spectres is the story of a great teenage character struggling to break out of a kind of muddled ghost story. Lauren Birkell makes the central role sullen, witty, angry, and full of unwanted energy with no place to go--instantly recognizable from any high school. She's also given the best dialogue in the film, which is a good thing because she's in almost every scene. The movie's at its worst when it takes its metaphysics seriously, but I enjoyed watching the more everyday parts. Official site, Cinequest page (trailer, scene), IMDb page.
If Birkell shines in Spectres, Patricia Kovács practically is the Hungarian movie Down by Love. As the movie opens Eva is arriving at her apartment after a vacation, and with two brief exceptions she never leaves it. People come to the door wanting favors or offering help, and we hear but never see them. Her only other human contact is on the telephone with friends, family members, and a lover who is bad news. The whole story is her gradual emotional unraveling--it's kind of confusing, and kind of contrived (every character seems to have at least two relationships to Eva), but Kovács shows that disintegration in every moment, and it's fascinating. Official site, Cinequest page, IMDb page.
Both Kovács and Birkell are relatively unknown. Birkell is in some upcoming episodes of "Six Feet Under" and a horror movie of the also-starring-Bruce-Campbell variety. Let's hope for the best. And Kovács, well, not many Hungarian films get released over here, but she should be in some of them.
