Jude
His world could never change... until she became his world
Kate Winslet, Academy Award® nominee for her flirtatious performance in Sense And Sensibility, discovers a more powerfully seductive role in this tale of an unquenchable thirst for love. From director Michael Winterbottom (Butterfly Kiss) comes a movie critics have called "a sweeping film of power, passion and greatness" (Rex Reed) and "one of this year's finest feature films." The Boston Globe
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Last line - mrhaines
The last line of this move speaks so much to how social norms can be so powerful and often destructive to those who don't fall in the norm. This movie is beautifully filmed with great cinematography. Kate Winslet was great, Eccleston was mediocre. The movie could have used a little more character development as I never really felt I connected with them.
One of those movies that no one has ever heard of, but is definitely worth the watch.Breakneck pace. - Spumco
Jude the Obscure is one of my most treasured favorite novels of all times...anyone who has read the book will realise that cramming it into a 120 minute film adaptation just wasn't meant to be. A lot happens, and so much of the book's intensity comes from the excrutiatingly detailed descriptions of the characters' appearances and their emotions. While I'm sure Winterbottom tried his best with the choppy adapatation, it is painfully obvious that he opted for idyllic-music video-like montages instead of further story or character development. I don't think 'too slow' is a justifiable complaint and I found it was just the opposite--operating at a breakneck speed most of the time, trying to cram in the most notable locations and plot points while using the lazy man's montage technique to indicate the passage of time/memories/etc. The actors do what they can with the cardboard writing and I especially liked Eccleston (whatever happened to him??) and Winslet in the leads. In fact they (along with an excellent-as-usual Rachel Griffiths) are the only things saving this film from being banished into an abyss of victorian-novel film adaptation banality.beautiful and intelligent - Seni
This is one of my favorite films, maybe because I find the ideas about challenging social norms in the 19th century to be just as valid today, maybe because the plot is heart wrenching and tragic (as Thomas Hardy's stories tend to be), or maybe it's simply because it is exquisitely acted, scripted and filmed with beautiful cinematography.
It probably helps that I loved the book. It doesn't hurt that the two main actors are fabulously beautiful and striking with lots of character and grace or that it tells a grandiose tale of struggle and following your ideals that is intelligent and well plotted.
I am not sure how someone could find it difficult to follow the plot as another writer indicated since it is a straightforward. I agree with another writer that the flashback on Kate before she was beaten down by the events in her life is tacky. But that's the only imperfection in this great movie.
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Last line - mrhaines
The last line of this move speaks so much to how social norms can be so powerful and often destructive to those who don't fall in the norm. This movie is beautifully filmed with great cinematography. Kate Winslet was great, Eccleston was mediocre. The movie ...Breakneck pace. - Spumco
Jude the Obscure is one of my most treasured favorite novels of all times...anyone who has read the book will realise that cramming it into a 120 minute film adaptation just wasn't meant to be. A lot happens, and so much of the book's intensity comes from ...beautiful and intelligent - Seni
This is one of my favorite films, maybe because I find the ideas about challenging social norms in the 19th century to be just as valid today, maybe because the plot is heart wrenching and tragic (as Thomas Hardy's stories tend to be), or maybe it's simply ...