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Director: Neil Armfield
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From Time Out London
Amour fou, indeed. This slightly over-familiar but neatly told story of a sexual/romantic passion at once partly fuelled and blighted by drug addiction focuses on an engaging young Australian couple: would-be poet Dan (Heath Ledger), and budding young artist Candy (Abbie Cornish), whom Dan introduces, a little reluctantly but with predictably terrible results, to heroin. That the stages in their relationship are portentously marked out in three chapter headings – Heaven, Earth and Hell – points to a certain schematism in the narrative, though the initial lack of sermonising and the uniformly strong performances (Ledger is especially effective, while Noni Hazlehurst and Tony Martin provide sterling support as Candy’s understandably anxious parents) together manage to carry the day. Armfield’s confident direction alternates between expressive and just a little too flashy, but is overall sufficiently fresh and imaginative for even the darker scenes of embittered break-up to avoid being as dramatically tiresome as they usually are in such fare.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out London Issue 1889: November 1-8 2006
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Posted on Oct 28 2008 15:49
The performances, script, everything in this film is perfect. :]
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- Posted on Feb 03 2008 13:27 A moving film with brilliant performances from both Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. The horror of heroin dependance stayed with me long after the film ended. Sad, yet beautiful.
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Cast & crew
Director: Neil Armfield
Producer: Margaret Fink, Emile Sherman
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Noni Hazlehurst, Tony Martin full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 108 mins
UK Release: Nov 3 2006
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