Monday, September 03, 2007
"Hallam Foe".
By my word, this was a great movie. I know this for a fact. I was in the cinema on Friday morning absolutely dying with a bad stomach, but risking public embarrassment I refused to leave the screening until the movie had completely finished. Well, that is, except for the end credits. Hey! I can look them up, if I want to.
So, yes. A great movie. Probably David Mackenzie's best movie since 2002's weird and wonderful, not to mention kind of shocking, "The Last Great Wilderness".
Jamie Bell (never better, not even in "Billy Elliott") plays Hallam Foe. Living in the Scottish Borders, Hallam is a rebel. Dressing up in his dead Mother's clothes (and animal skins), spying on people having sex, painting his face like a Red Indian and antagonising his (young and attractive) Step Mother. After a disturbing incident with his Step Mother, Hallam runs away to the city. There he becomes obsessed with a young woman who looks exactly like his dead Mother. He conspires to meet her and then...
Ah, well, why spoil it. See it for yourself.
Great movie on all sorts of levels. Fine performances by Jamie Bell, who has turned into a really interesting adult actor, and a very sexy Sophia Myles. Good supporting cast (Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Ewen Bremner and Maurice Roëves). Funny, creepy, sexy and surprising.
I would see "Hallam Foe" again, hopefully next time without the stomach ache.
By my word, this was a great movie. I know this for a fact. I was in the cinema on Friday morning absolutely dying with a bad stomach, but risking public embarrassment I refused to leave the screening until the movie had completely finished. Well, that is, except for the end credits. Hey! I can look them up, if I want to.
So, yes. A great movie. Probably David Mackenzie's best movie since 2002's weird and wonderful, not to mention kind of shocking, "The Last Great Wilderness".
Jamie Bell (never better, not even in "Billy Elliott") plays Hallam Foe. Living in the Scottish Borders, Hallam is a rebel. Dressing up in his dead Mother's clothes (and animal skins), spying on people having sex, painting his face like a Red Indian and antagonising his (young and attractive) Step Mother. After a disturbing incident with his Step Mother, Hallam runs away to the city. There he becomes obsessed with a young woman who looks exactly like his dead Mother. He conspires to meet her and then...
Ah, well, why spoil it. See it for yourself.
Great movie on all sorts of levels. Fine performances by Jamie Bell, who has turned into a really interesting adult actor, and a very sexy Sophia Myles. Good supporting cast (Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Ewen Bremner and Maurice Roëves). Funny, creepy, sexy and surprising.
I would see "Hallam Foe" again, hopefully next time without the stomach ache.
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