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Birth
2004
Birth is a dramatic mystery set in New York's Upper East Side. Into the life of a 35 year old woman, Anna, comes a 10 year old boy, David, who is in love with her and convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Drawn to remember her past, Anna begins to question the choices she's made, much to the concern and .. Read more
| Starring | Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche |
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| Director | Jonathan Glazer |
| Genres | Drama |
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Birth
Birth is a dramatic mystery set in New York's Upper East Side. Into the life of a 35 year old woman, Anna, comes a 10 year old boy, David, who is in love with her and convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Drawn to remember her past, Anna begins to question the choices she's made, much to the concern and consternation of her fiancé and her family.
| Starring | Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche |
|---|---|
| Director | Jonathan Glazer |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Apr 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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I just saw Birth in a near empty cinema. What an extraordinary movie! It's so rare, these days, to get lost in a film. I don't mean that director Jonathan Glazer and his... read more »
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76 out of 92 people found this review helpful
The most underrated film of 2004
Sexy Beast marked the arrival of a major new director in Jonathan Glazer and while being its polar opposite, Birth is as good a film and it stayed with me for much longer than many films I saw last year.
Forget anything you heard of Birth resembling The Sixth Sense, this is not about ghosts or twists. If anything this is closer to Soderbergs remake of Solaris in themes and atmosphere. Both films are slow but hypnotic studies of grief, obsession and second chances. Bunuel's frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière worked on the script which may account to the films subversive nature, though accusations of child pornography, whipped up buy the British tabloid press, are utterly unfounded. Im not always a fan of Nicole Kidman, but she gives a touching performance here and Danny Huston as her long suffering fiance is utterly fantastic. Alexandre Desplat composed what I thought was the most beautiful score for a film last year.
I know people who didn't like the end, but I found it deeply moving and it is actually much more complex than it may seem at first. -
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Often boring and the ending is poor
In order to explain the problems with this film I'd have to spoil the plot so there's little I can say other than your time invested is wasted on an ending which leaves you feeling empty/cheated.
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The LOVEFiLM Letters: 200 Not Out!
- 06 May 2008
Tony Blair was still PM. Tom Cruise hadn't flipped out, Martin Scorsese hadn't won the Oscar and Nick Park was working on something called "Wallace & Gromit and the Great Vegetable Plot". It seems like only yesterday, but the very first LOVEFiLM weekly newsletter went out at the beginning of May 2004, and four years later we're celebrating our 200th edition. Who woulda thunk it? Online DVD rentals hadn't made much impact at the time - the business was still in its infancy. It wasn't until the... Read more
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