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Song of Songs
Format: 15 DVD
Starring: Julia Swift, Amber Agar, Leon Lissek, Felicite Du Jeu, Natalie Press, Joel Chalfen, Elliot Levey, Joel Chalfen
Director: Josh Appignanesi
Genre: Drama - General
Studio: SODA PICTURES
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Song of Songs
15 Feature

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Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Rental release: 27 Sep 2010
Main languages: English, Hebrew
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  • not for everyone...

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By a customer from London UK , 14 Aug 2006

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    ...as the other reviews show. But if you like austere, intellectually demanding cinema, this was critically acclaimed as an interesting film and I would tend to agree. Striking, repressed-boiling-over performance from Natalie Press in her first big role since My Summer Of Love. A strange and elusive ghost of a film, frustrating but always compelling, it's nice to see new British cinema that's trying to do something fresh.
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  • S O S hbid

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By a customer , 05 Jul 2011

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    A la (j)ackal (c)arlos

    s g

    XXX

    the spider ghost has seen this and also enjoyed heaven before I die - chaplinesque!
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  • Strange...

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By a customer from England , 12 Mar 2009

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    I feel with a bigger budget and a tiny bit more thought as to character development this film could have been really interesting.While the acting was great in each scene, there wasn't really a continuity of behaviour, even under the surface ambivalence, that implied a 'true' identity - except from the mother, and corpses-to-be do tend to be reasonably consistent. I am still a bit bemused by the post-modern tendency to stick incest into everything, but it was at least vaguely believable the way it was performed here. Nor could I tell whether at the end we're supposed to infer sex or death - which may well have been intentional, in which case bravo, Mr A, it works. But as other reviewers point out, the poor quality of the footage and the disjointed scene changes do undermine the film not a little.
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  • Why? how is ithis possilbe?

    Rated - 0.0 stars  
    By JustKewl (105 reviews) from Ipswich , 06 Mar 2009
    Yes, I admit it! I've seen a small number of films that have been pretty bad. However, I felt these films would largely be as bad as each other. No film could ever go lower. Okay, well I was wrong when I came across 'Song of Songs'. I didn't realise a film could be THIS bad!!!

    It's painfully dull, the story is boring and yet so hard to follow because it is so boring. I get the suspicious feeling there maybe something there I'm missing due to the sheer agony of watching this. I don't know. I've come away from watching this film none the wiser and, having gained nothing out of this rather depressing, directionless peice of drivvle.

    I know this film have something to do with the extreme of Judaism, possibly, but that's it. I'm not even all that clear on that either.

    No, don't watch this. Boring aside, it makes no actual sense and this film is no educator.
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  • Customer Review

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By a customer from UK , 23 Jun 2008
    Firstly I would like to point out that I have watched a very broad selection of films over the years. Now down to the nitty gritty. I was overwhelmingly disappointed by this film. The heavy storyline came across as laboured and lacking imagination. I cannot recommend this film in anyway and all it left me with was regret that I had asked for it.
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  • Oh dear

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By Jon Burgess from Bristol, UK , 04 Aug 2007
    This should and could have been so so so much more interesting than the utter dissapointment it turned out to be. I thought I had misunderstood the film but after listening to a few minutes of the commentary I realised I had 'got' it perfectly and that all the cast and the director were just too busy trying to be pretentious to bother making a decent film.
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