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[Highly rated reviewer]

Rage

This is a very interesting film. In my opinion this film is more an exercise in film making than it is a film in of itself. The format consists for a series of interviews in front of a green screen which then has different colours projected on to it.

The plot is based around a New York fashion show where a young African-American boy (aged around 10 according to the director) has been allowed in to in order to speak to the various people involved. You never see or hear the boy as he is designed to act as a silent listener and witness to the events that unfold around him. As the week progresses various tragedies befall the show including the deaths of various models and external protests.

This plot however is largely unimportant as the film is hung entirely on the acting of the interviewees, from Judy Dench, to Jude Law in drag, and from Eddy Iszzard through to Steve Bucessmi, the acting is fantastic as they narrate their thoughts and feeling throughout the week. Due to this however, you are left with the feeling that the fact its at a fashion show is unimportant, this could easily be done about any other occasion which renders its clear critique of the fashion industry somewhat muted.

In sum this is not the kind of film you would return to again and again, in order to sustain itself the story takes more and more ridiculous turns to the point of near madness. That said its well worth a single watch just to see the very fine actors at work.

Utter rubbish

This has got to be the worst film I have ever seen. The whole film is made is made up of a series or one-on-one interviews. The only reason I rented it was because of the big stars in it, Jude Law, Steve Buscemi, Judy Dench, etc. I am bitterly disappointed. I didn't even watch it to the end, and I think I have only ever done that with a film about 2 or 3 times in my whole life.

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One for my christmas list

I hope they made a lot of copies of this because i am to give everyone for christmas... The best bit in the film is when dorothy dies and when Michael angelo learns about damage limitation! Jude as a tranny is epic! yes! Does Michael angelo actually exist or are they just talking to themselves...? Minx's best friend is the light! The best thing about this film is writing this review... I don't need to persuade you to buy this film it says enough to sell itself... though i do recommend a bottle of wine before you watch it.

This review is ambiguous like the film.

The blue pizza boy is fit as, i just want to rip the panties off!!! The only disappointment in this film that i cannot get over the fact that it goes on about the perfume M and i found it totally ironic as well as a disappointment that dame Judy Dench is in the film when in fact she plays a character named M in the bond films... totally unrealistic! 99 minutes was not long enough! The intern is fit i'm off to find more films with him in... hopefully with the blue pizza boy in too!

[Highly rated reviewer]

14 Talking Heads.

An interesting very small, budget film from director/writer Sally Potter. It may be small budget but it has some very big stars and even the almost unknown are brilliant..

The action takes place in a room somewhere within the environs of an important fashion house where a new fragrance is about to be launched at the finale of the fashion show.

One by one, the people involved enter the room and discuss their work, lives and feelings to a young, unseen boy who is filming them on a cellphone as part of his work experience. Simultaneously,one can hear the raised voices of a crowd of protesters in the street,, who are objecting to the obscene anounts of money earned by spoilt models, designers,and others in the higher echelons of the fashion industry. Things turn nasty.

But it's all really about the acting, which is superb; even Jude Law, whom I have always denigrated as an actor. Judi Dench is amazing as Mona Carvell, a fashion writer and critic; as is Dianne West in the role of house manager; Eddie Izzard does a great cameo as Tiny Diamonds, ruthless entrepreneur; Riz Ahmed plays Vijay the pizza delivery boy, and Adriana Barraz istouchingly real as Anita, the seamstress with no papers.

The whole thing is slightly potty but also mesmerising. I'm tempted to give it 5.

Talking Heads ?

If you like Alan Bennett you'll like this.

Thought provoking and a bit scary to realise the power of the internet.