Arvostelu: Tumman veden päällä on tasaisen yllätyksetön

Tumman veden päällä

Tolstoi oli väärässä: jokainen onneton perhe ei ole onneton omalla tavallaan, ainakaan kun on puhe suomalaisesta fiktiosta. Onnettomuuden syy on melkein aina alkoholismi, uhreina lapset ja satuttajana isä. Niin myös Peter Franzénin omasta kirjastaan sovittamassa Tumman veden päällä -elokuvassa.

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 30.08.2013 – 2.09.2013

  • Where Do Claire Danes’s Volcanic Performances Come From? –
  • What is Al Pacino’s Next Big Move? – As we discuss The Godfather, the mention of Brando gets Pacino excited. “When you see him in A Streetcar Named Desire, somehow he’s bringing a stage performance to the screen. Something you can touch. It’s so exciting to watch! I’ve never seen anything on film by an actor like Marlon Brando in Streetcar on film. It’s like he cuts through the screen! It’s like he burns right through. And yet it’s got this poetry in it. Madness! Madness!”
  • Paramount Has a Probem with Blu-Ray Extras – I’m sure this plan looked great from a studio marketing standpoint. “Let’s do something exciting to make our retail partners feel special.” But how about doing something to make your customers feel special?

Muutama sana elokuvista elokuisista

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 26.08.2013 – 30.08.2013

  • Paramount Has a Probem with Blu-Ray Extras – I’m sure this plan looked great from a studio marketing standpoint. “Let’s do something exciting to make our retail partners feel special.” But how about doing something to make your customers feel special?
  • Hot Fuzz -käsis –
  • The web video of 2012 – The year’s best online movies, by 16 international correspondents. Introduced by Nick Bradshaw.

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 25.08.2013

  • Suomalaisia elokuvajulisteita – Galleria on keskittynyt pääsääntöisesti ennen 90-luvun vaihdetta ensi-iltansa saaneisiin elokuviin.
  • The God of SNL Will See You Now – MARC MARON I think I was a little high on pot. There were some pictures facing [Mr. Michaels], and in front of the pictures was a bowl of candy. It was all very loaded. And then he just starts looking at me, to a point where Steve Higgins [then an “SNL” producer] goes, “Lorne?” And Lorne goes, “You can tell a lot by looking into someone’s eyes.” And then I took a candy. Lorne looked at Steve, and the meeting was over. I thought I failed the candy test.

    If it panned out, my life would have been dramatically different. I wouldn’t be mildly obsessed with Lorne Michaels. I talk to people about Lorne because I’m hung up on it. I feel like I need to talk to him again to get some closure. [Laughs.]

  • The Fantastic Failure of The Lone Ranger – This is most critics’ central complaint: the “unevenness,” the collision of genre elements, as if Verbinski meant to do something smooth and unified and polished but accidentally tripped and fell with an immense crash, and the resulting jagged pile of breakage is the film. But there’s no indication that he ever meant to create a tightly controlled genre narrative. He almost never does.