Candy
Director:
Neil ArmfieldCámara:
Garry PhillipsReparto:
Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Tony Martin, Sandy Winton, Tara Morice, Adrienne Pickering, Jason Chan, Damon Herriman, Luke Davies (más)Sinopsis(1)
El aclamado director Neil Armfield ha adaptado la novela de Luke Davies "Candy" y producido una historia de amor contemporánea de asombrosa belleza en la pantalla. En el papel que da título, Abbie Cornish crea un intrépido retrato de una joven artista cuya ansia de vida la lleva al extremo de la cordura. Heath Ledger inspira un dulce y suave optimismo en Dan, el que fuera poeta perdido y enamorado de Candy. Ellos encuentran en la heroína un camino de placer ilimitado. Pero cuando la adicción domina ellos pierden lo que habían encontrado. Candy abre la puerta a una visión de ensueño que tendrá significado para aquellos que se han sentido deslumbrados por la belleza del mundo. (Lauren Films)
(más)Reseñas (3)
This movie knocked me on my ass. Candy is one of my fondest memories of Heath Ledger. The division between Heaven, Earth, and Hell is really apt and makes the film even more interesting.
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Practically every significant type of cinema has gone through a period of interest in drug topics and made a few films where it was teeming with meth and meth-heads. Candy is a quite late product of the genre, which already has its strongest and most provocative films behind it. It is by no means as original and darkly sarcastic as Trainspotting, nor is it too raw or professionally up to standard to make its mark on the history of the respective genre or cinema in general. Only the casting of the central duo is worth mentioning, with Heath Ledger becoming a celebrity, particularly due to his premature end, and Abbie Cornish being so sweetly blond and likable, in addition to delivering a decent performance. Perhaps only two scenes stick in my memory, especially Candy's written confession in the empty shack, and that is very little for such an emotional topic. Overall impression: 60%. In my opinion, Candy is a bit too optimistic, ending with a significant happy ending (because in the meth world, it truly represents a film happy ending). By the way, I didn't believe in the mutual emotions in that scene. If they had truly gone through meth hell, something else would have been reflected in their eyes. And most likely, they wouldn't have crossed paths at all.
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La cinematografía australiana se encuentra en un alto nivel, como lo demuestran varios actores australianos que han triunfado también más allá de las fronteras: Crowe, Kidman, Blanchett, Watts y el trío Ledger, Rush y Cornish, que protagonizan la película Candy. Heath Ledger una vez más muestra sus habilidades actuales extraordinarias y Abbie Cornish no se queda atrás. Mucho, mucho, mucho mejor película sobre drogas que la recientemente vista por mí, Feťák.
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