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Release Date: 11 November, 2003 Retail Price: $24.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Amateur Reviews
Awful
Hal Hartley is a phony. He takes himself too seriously. I feel sorry for anyone who likes his work. It's not like his life is that complicated. It was all downhill after Trust, and trust was terrible to start with; his films just grew more and more pretentious as he struggled with the meaning of life and his budding Asian fetish. What the heck was that mess Book of Life about anyway? He's completely lost what little sense of humor he had and is now just waxing poetic, regurgitating things said by cooler people than him. Come to think of it, has he ever had an original thought? No Such Thing seems like something a high school A/V student would put together after he just discovered the Cliff Notes to The Uses of Enchantment. Come back down to Earth, Hal, stop being a faker, and make a movie that's true to yourself again. Unbelievable.
Who is "this man?"
"Do you know this man?" During the opening scene of AMATEUR "this man" finds himself sprawled out on a cobblestone road outside an apartment building in New York. After recovering, he'll find that his fall from a second floor window has deprived him of his memory, and in an amnesiac haze he'll stumble into a diner where a self-professed nymphomaniac ex-nun (who is still a virgin 15 years removed from the convent) and wanna-be writer of smut, will adopt him as part of what she believes to be a mission from God - her calling. The more she finds out about "this man's" unseemly past the deeper she finds herself immersed in a web of blackmail and violence, with a former porn actress and three accountants, two of which are assassins. Is "this man" the sum of all the facts that we have gleaned from others? Is "this man" really the vicious monster that his ex-wife and former business associate claim? Is "this man" the same man since he has lost his memory? Does anyone really know anyone? In AMATEUR every character is running away - unsuccessfully - from their identities and desperately trying to reinvent themselves and escape from a past that continues to haunt them. An original, quirky film that is difficult to categorize - black comedy? Suspense thriller?
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