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Icky, Icky, Ickynew
The filmmakers want to have it both ways: They do everything to convince the protagonist and the audience that it might indeed be OK to run off with a 10-year-old boy, then cop out just before she's about to throw away her life.
Tags: birth, Jonathan Glazer
Born Againnew
If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-28-2004 |
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Tags: birth, Jonathan Glazer
Implausible Story Reaps Ill-Conceived Birthnew
Co-written by one-time Luis Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carriére, Birth aims for the somnambulist surreality and social critique of Belle de Jour or Diary of a Chambermaid, but achieves only spookiness for spookiness' sake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-28-2004 |
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Tags: birth, Jonathan Glazer
