Kiss Of Life
2003
Writer-director Emily Young's BAFTA-winning debut is an incredibly moving story of love, death and grief. John (Peter Mullen) has been an aid worker in a war-torn area of Eastern Europe and is about to return home to his wife and children back in London who are anxiously waiting for his safe return. But unbeknownst to him, his .. Read more
| Starring | Peter Mullan, Millie Findlay, David Warner, James E. Martin |
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| Director | Emily Young |
| Genres | Drama |
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Kiss Of Life
Writer-director Emily Young's BAFTA-winning debut is an incredibly moving story of love, death and grief. John (Peter Mullen) has been an aid worker in a war-torn area of Eastern Europe and is about to return home to his wife and children back in London who are anxiously waiting for his safe return. But unbeknownst to him, his wife Helen (Ingeborga Dapkuniate) is killed in a car accident. John and Helen's children and their grandfather (David Warner) are trying to cope with her death, anticipating John's return to the tragic news of his wife's death. But Helen is hauntingly caught between life and death.
| Starring | Peter Mullan, Millie Findlay, David Warner, James E. Martin |
|---|---|
| Director | Emily Young |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Jun 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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British debutante director Emily Young's training in Poland is evident throughout this mournful meditation on love and loss, in which the spirit of an accident victim returns to her London home and is confused to find that her children can't see her. As the woman, Ingeborga Dapkunaite lacks the emotional resources to convey the feelings and frustrations that family life gives rise to. And as the husband (an overseas aid worker played by Peter Mullan) tries to get home for her birthday, his homeward trek through Eastern European squalor, which parallels the dead woman's journey towards understanding, features encounters that are either too slight or too consciously symbolic to be of interest.
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While her husband John (Mullan) is away doing aid work in the war-torn Balkans, back in London Helen (Dapkunaite) is... read more on Time Out
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Not quite
More of an arthouse film...Worth watching but it does not linger in the memory. Feels like Kieslowski on a weaker day. That said, Peter Mullan, as always, is very good. As a directorial debut by Emily Watson it is 'interesting'.
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Not quite
More of an arthouse film...Worth watching but it does not linger in the memory. Feels like Kieslowski on a weaker day. That said, Peter Mullan, as always, is very good. As a directorial debut by Emily Watson it is 'interesting'.
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Writer-director Emily Young's BAFTA-winning debut is an incredibly moving story of love, death and grief. John (Peter Mullen) has been an aid worker in a war-torn area of Eastern Europe and is about ... -