Kirpianuscus
a love story. or only a war story. in fact, both. not as two parts of a single story but as mixed sides. because its virtue is to be an old fashion story. comfortable in a specific way. seductive in each aspect. it is one of films who gives the flavor and the colors of a world. in delicate and touching manner. one of many stories about her and him, about the other, about the unexpected event and about the truth as a fragile building, after decades. and this does "Closing the Ring" more than a Hallmark film. but a sort o rediscover of personal memories about similar facts and meets and decisions.
Enchorde
Recap: A funeral of an old war veteran once again unites his friends. Now only two of them remain, the widow Ethel Ann and her friend Jack. They reminisce about times before the war, when Chuck and Teddy still lived. Times were good, and Ethel Ann were very much in love with Teddy, so much they actually married in secret. But their future didn't become as it was supposed to. Ethel Ann's husband just buried wasn't Teddy, but Chuck. And only Jack and Ethel Ann, not even Ethel Ann's own daughter, know the true love story. But far away, on an hill in Belfast, a young kid finds a ring, Ethel's and Teddy's secret wedding ring, and the secret is slowly revealed. But pain buried for half a century doesn't go easy.Comments: Not sure what Attenborough and Woodward wanted with this movie. It is a good story, also supposedly inspired by a true event, with a lot of different parts, each contributing to slowly unfold the secret. But there is two problems, the secret is revealed almost immediately, and with so much to tell, from different times and different places, the movie has no time to really explore any part in depth. It becomes shallow. And despite credited as a romance, I didn't find it very romantic. There certainly is no happy love left, and more problematic, it is forced to be too shallow to bring forward any real emotions. All that is left is an OK drama about how young people were affected by the war, and that not every story was a happy one. It makes for an average movie, nothing more.As this is written, 5 of the 7 keywords of the movie are relating to female nudity. It seems wrong when those relate to just one brief scene, that is rather unnecessary too. This is not a movie with much nudity. It is not sensual in any part, there are barely emotions. It is best described as a war drama, with all that it entails.5/10
Armand
Love. Choises. A house. And a ring. Pieces of a impressive story about the traces of past. About walls and crashes. About return and long years in gray skin of expectation. Piece of a time who must be lost, the movie is novel of a old and fascinating way to discover the life in the small details and heavy marks.It is a provocation. Or seductive attempt to move stones to see the reality.Shirley MacLane is impressive. And Neve Campbell, like Mischa Burton , has the chance to burst pattern. A love story, a war and slices of truth. Not more that. Ingredients of many movies in the romantic sauce. In this case, the nuances are more important that colors. So, only an unusual story.
phd_travel
First of all this movie is worth watching. A historical film with a good director and attractive cast are the redeeming qualities.Mischa is lovely and her young beaus are fresh faced and earnest. It's a bit of a stretch having Shirley McLaine as her older self. Neve Campbell's character is annoying and she is too sulky looking.The storyline is a little over ambitious and confusing. The story should have been told without so much flashbacks - it was confusing because so much time and incidents and places are covered. Also the WWII element is a little bit of a let down since no real action takes place its just an accident in Ireland. Maybe it was too much ground to cover with the IRA storyline as well but they were trying for an epic.
AD
