Invisible Waves details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Tadanobu Asano, Hye-jeong Kang, Hye-Jeong Kang, Eric Tsang, Maria Cordero, Toon Hiranyasap, Ken Mitsuishi |
| Director: | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller - Action/Adventure, World Cinema - Korean |
| Studio: | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Name | Discs | |
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Invisible Waves |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 55 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 12 Nov 2007 |
| Main languages: | Thai, Japanese, Korean |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Not an invisible director
By a customer from Leicester , 20 Dec 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
This film, like it's prequel 'Last Life in the Universe', has an almost invisible actor at its heart. Asano Tadanobu kills his boss's girlfriend. We don't see him kill her but we know he will. How? We see his face as they are dirnking. We see him give her a glass of wine. We see him looking at a knife then hiding it. He doesn't look evil or demented or any of the things we are supposed to look out for in bad guys, and we are confused as to why he's going to kill her. There you go.
We find out, in a way, at the end when why's are no longer important.
What you find inbetween the confusion is a film of blood and foriegn airports, of phone calls and either no-one or everyone speaking your langauge. Asano travells south east Asia, on the instructions of someone else. Who? we're not sure, but we let the movie work it out at its own pace. Travelling with these guys is enthralling.
The director suggests a kind of permanent paranoia in the sounds and images of this film, boat sounds creating more tension that a hundred CGI violins. Around every corner you expect a ghost, or gangster or a beautiful girl to appear.
It's that kind of movie. A movie which lets you think, imagine and feel inside the tone of the film. Which is exactly why Asano works in this (and 'Last Life'). I heard it said that he's part of a Japanese tradition of actors who practise internalising their emotions, until they show near-nothing, and through that comes the performance.
It's a mysterious one this, take a breath.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(5)nothing to offer....
By Willscarlet (1 review) , 17 Jan 2013an absolute shocker, love Asian cinema but this went no where, did nothing, only good bit was the funny scene in the bathroom on the boat, why did they keep zooming into shots of his shoes? Flat and listless, a waste of time, how the hell can some one give this 5 stars, well unless drug induced?? Rubbish- Was this review helpful to you?
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arthouse gangster
By Koppert (267 reviews) from Scarborough , 17 May 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
Like a European arthouse film but with a gangster theme running through it. Its a beautiful film that leaves you in contemplation of every action- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not an invisible director
By a customer from Leicester , 20 Dec 2008This film, like it's prequel 'Last Life in the Universe', has an almost invisible actor at its heart. Asano Tadanobu kills his boss's girlfriend. We don't see him kill her but we know he will. How? We see his face as they are dirnking. We see him give her a glass of wine. We see him looking at a knife then hiding it. He doesn't look evil or demented or any of the things we are supposed to look out for in bad guys, and we are confused as to why he's going to kill her. There you go.
We find out, in a way, at the end when why's are no longer important.
What you find inbetween the confusion is a film of blood and foriegn airports, of phone calls and either no-one or everyone speaking your langauge. Asano travells south east Asia, on the instructions of someone else. Who? we're not sure, but we let the movie work it out at its own pace. Travelling with these guys is enthralling.
The director suggests a kind of permanent paranoia in the sounds and images of this film, boat sounds creating more tension that a hundred CGI violins. Around every corner you expect a ghost, or gangster or a beautiful girl to appear.
It's that kind of movie. A movie which lets you think, imagine and feel inside the tone of the film. Which is exactly why Asano works in this (and 'Last Life'). I heard it said that he's part of a Japanese tradition of actors who practise internalising their emotions, until they show near-nothing, and through that comes the performance.
It's a mysterious one this, take a breath.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A bit too listless this one
By chungking (101 reviews) from London , 23 Apr 2008This is something of a languid thriller. Its slow pace, washed out colours and existential feel doesn’t really lend itself to the thriller genre but the main elements of the plot do. We have a subtle central character who’s guilt ridden, in search of himself and looking for some form of redemption. Tadanobu Asano has the right kind of quiet quality to carry this off and it’s a mature, intelligent film, but it’s not as engaging as the directors previous film, ‘Last Life In the Universe’, also featuring Asano. I wasn’t really intrigued by the characters and I didn’t care too much about the outcome. If you wanna check out this director go for ‘Last Life’.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Ouch this film was painfully boring
By a customer from Cardiff , 10 Jan 2008I have not seen such a slow and tedious film in my whole life to my recollection, and I've seen a lot. One scene shows a man walking down steps and takes a full 2 minutes to get to the bottom (the relevance - none other than he is now at the bottom of the steps). It was so unnesessarily slow it was unbelievable. Some may call that art - I call that boring.
If the film was a short film, lasting 30 minutes, the plot would have carried it, by dragging it out to a full 13/4 hours it was beyond hope. Please Please don't waste your time, the ending really isn't worth the wait.- Was this review helpful to you?
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