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Release Date: 25 January, 2000 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Minnie and Moskowitz Reviews
You gotta be kidding.....surprisingly amateur!
This film is shocking in many ways. First that such a first rate director and cast could come up with such a mess. The only thing missing is the shaky camerawork. This isn't a movie.....it's an embarrassment. What's it about? Just imagine a day in the life with some loud mouthed couple who are mismatched and thrown together and someone is following them around with a camcorder waiting for them to kill each other. The only difference is that in this movie they don't die which is a shame considering all the punishment we are subjected to trying to watch it. An eccentric concoction based on a pot brainstorm that isn't worthy of a passing grade in a high school film project assignment. Maybe one of the worse movies I've ever seen. It amounts to nothing more than a loud, eneven, rambling, misguided venture with no redeeming value. Bury it along with Nuclear waste materials and hope it gets destroyed so as to save humanity from it's sheer boredom! Horrible!
early independent filmmaking in its most true stages.
Minnie and Moskowitz follows two very real characters and how they are able to fulfill the other's need for love. The characters aren't as fully developed as they are in his other films, but they are more realistic than most. The story outlines a parking attendant and a privileged curator, and how they manage to become bound with love despite their many differences. Their idiosyncracies, their needs, and their passions all manage to meld together beautifully despite their vast differences. Many arguments ensue before they finally allow themselves to submit, to be honest, and to love one another.
These are characters that are much like ourselves; they're flawed, they have needs that might never be fulfilled, and they like movies. They fight, they don't always look beautiful, they are exceedingly underconfident. They are in abusive relationships, and they love those that try not to love them. Some have sufferable jobs, some are privileged, some will talk to strangers, some will not.
It, like other Cassavetes films, shows how even our differences somehow serve as a tool to unite us, and what occurs in real life is something more beautiful, tragic, and interesting than we could ever appreciate. He allows us to look at our lives and stop comparing them to, or at least notice we are comparing them to, the plotline in other films, thereby allowing us to have the courage to be free and embrace our human nature.
Regarding composition, this film employs close-ups quite often, and is very often shaky. Its told through a gritty, realistic style of early cinema verite, with intimate shot choices. Design is delightfully ordinary, music relatively decent, acting superiour in every sense of the word. On the whole, the film is enjoyable, and confronts the audience with an honest mirror of itself.
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