tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post5594208111247802274..comments2024-01-18T04:42:47.809-06:00Comments on BitterGrace Notes: It's Epiphany, where's the heresy?BitterGracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18262639525430954930noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-20326318877284582962009-01-06T18:17:00.000-06:002009-01-06T18:17:00.000-06:00Thanks for bringing this film to my attention - I'...Thanks for bringing this film to my attention - I'll be looking for it, either at the theater or on DVD.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577766593643216036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-84997347785216934692009-01-06T10:57:00.000-06:002009-01-06T10:57:00.000-06:00I can see why you'd be uneasy about your son seein...I can see why you'd be uneasy about your son seeing it, Stella. The violence is very seductive. It's not mindless, though--Eli is really tortured by the way she is forced to live.<BR/><BR/>Hi, Fountaingirl. Thanks for the kind words, and for chiming in. I assumed your screen name was a reference to Caron, but your livejournal page makes me suspect it's something less prosaic. <BR/><BR/>Julie, I think you'd love this movie. It's fierce. It certainly ought to be playing in Maine. The winter landscape is like a character.BitterGracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262639525430954930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-76989790149531058182009-01-06T08:15:00.000-06:002009-01-06T08:15:00.000-06:00Not playing in Maine. I'll have to wait for it in ...Not playing in Maine. I'll have to wait for it in DVD.<BR/><BR/>Contrast and compare with Twilight, which I believe the NYTimes described as having a vampire one would feel comfortable taking home to the parents. <BR/><BR/>Irony and our fear of real sexuality - the death of passion.Julie H. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370626312151913595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-87005213476346012642009-01-06T07:17:00.000-06:002009-01-06T07:17:00.000-06:00I absolutely loved that movie. Loved. Glad to se...I absolutely loved that movie. Loved. Glad to see the review here! Love your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-89760614002103166202009-01-06T05:57:00.000-06:002009-01-06T05:57:00.000-06:00Yes she is :) ah, almost everything was good in th...Yes she is :) <BR/>ah, almost everything was good in this film, even the outdoor atmosphere - winter dread at its most depressing, the pale boy almost disappearing in all the whiteness, the red blood against the white (my 14 year old boy wanted to see it, but I disadvised because of all the violence, perhaps I shouldn't have done so..)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-45342085655648277292009-01-06T05:44:00.000-06:002009-01-06T05:44:00.000-06:00I would love to read the novel. I just checked onl...I would love to read the novel. I just checked online, and it does seem to be out in English--probably in anticipation of a really bad Hollywood remake of this wonderful film.<BR/><BR/>Isn't Lina Leandersson (Eli) the most amazing little actress? And so beautiful.BitterGracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262639525430954930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039707457010939097.post-36970251263680530132009-01-06T05:03:00.000-06:002009-01-06T05:03:00.000-06:00Let the Right One In: romance, horror and realism ...Let the Right One In: romance, horror and realism united. Never have I seen so much blood and murder in a film, and still the film so beautiful. But everything that happens is in the boy's head, as a way of coping with the situation of bullying, and of gaining strength.<BR/>The novel, on which the film is based, I also strongly recommend (don't know if that is translated into English, although)<BR/><BR/>(Ps: Eli may have semittic facial features, but as Scandinavian myself I immediately places her as Turkish-swedish. We have a lot of second generation Turkish immigrants)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com