« Ada or Ardor » (tv)

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2014)

This title from a Nabokov's novel (poetic but nearly unreadable) fits well to the movie as in a way, it's also poetic and nearly unwatchable.
For those who have the desire to be hermit, this is a sure recommendation but for the others (like me), it's rather the nightmare : i really felt trapped in this muddy jungle in New Zealand ! Worst, the director isn't fit to the task : highly (and ugly !) colorization, too much close-ups and not a good eye for the sets ! When a movie wants to stick us on a place, the minimum is to shoot it : how looks the house, how is the interior, how circulate in it : here, you have no idea and you can't really plunge into the movie ! About the story, it was an unoriginal triangle love story ! I'm not a clairvoyant, but you can easily predict all the movie. About the cast, the Oscar for Paquin and Holly are really unjustified ! If Paquin won it, why not Heather O'Rourke (« Poltergeist »), Culkin (« Home Alone »)! And giving an Oscar to Holly is just the bland idiotic award for disabled characters (« king speech », « ray », « shine », « Forrest Gump », « Philadelphia », « scent of a woman », « my left foot », « rain man », ...). However, as i dislike Keitel, i admit he is the one who should have get a nomination as he is rather likable here !