Kitty
There is, as many reviews have observed, a strong dark streak to this movie. The director it most recalls to me is John Landis (yeah, go ahead and howl about what a peasant I am). Arcand has the gift of exploring frivolous things in a bleak, gray kind of way, then turning round and exploring the horrors of life with a lighthearted touch.The cast is, without exception, above average. Thomas Gibson, as David, is outstanding as the moody and self-deceptive center around whom the rest of the characters revolve. He talks a good nihilist, but his actions reflect more love in his character than he is willing to acknowledge. Gibson was already a strong and subtle actor in 1993. It was difficult to look at him and see Greg Montgomery, let alone Agent Hotchner of Criminal Minds.Perhaps not the best scene, but the one I enjoy most, my "rewind scene," is the section where Candy is expecting a visitor, and one uninvited person after another shows up at the door. As Candy's interpersonal environment swings further and further out of control, David just grows bouncier, perkier, and more enthusiastic, like a gaunt Gen-X "Tigger."
npollotta
Quirky, brilliant, twisted, dark, inventive, unnerving. This is a wonderful film, extremely well acted and smoothly directed. Moody and atmospheric, death stalks this mixed assortment of oddball lovers, both inside and out. Yet it is not a bleak tale of destruction, but a story of redemption, survival, and finally love. A great job by everybody involved. Top marks!
Sic Coyote
I bought this film from my local blockbuster for 99p an it's been sitting in my video bookcase for at least a year now. Then tonight I decided to see it, the film was quite different to what I had expected and I didn't find any humour in it all I saw was that it was a bleak look at people dealing with love relationships and sexual orientation and I didn't really see the psycho killer plot really having a point except to add tension to the end of the film. I felt that the person playing the lesbian woman did a great job. I was following her emotions and what happened around her. Some people would probably have seen some of the stuff that she does as funny but I could really put myself in her place, loving someone but them rejecting you at every turn no matter how hard you try. I thought it was a very moving film and dealt with all the different sexualities well. I was expecting something like Bound & Gagged : A love story, but this is a very different film. Not for bigots.
Grand
This was the film that started that the cinematic love affairbetween the Jaundiced Eye crew and Matthew Ferguson. Hisability to portray RELATIVELY normal characters like Birkoff in"La Femme Nikita" is counter-balanced by his equally defthandling of weirdos like "Kane." One wishes that he would onlybe given more roles, bigger roles, and other, even more complexroles to assay to push the limits of his abilities. There werefour or five memorable scenes in this film, and Matthew Fergusonstole two of them from far more experienced actors. This filmitself is good, and it is worth watching on its own merits, butFerguson makes it a little extra special. His *ouevre* mayeventually show what the career of Anthony Perkins MIGHT havebeen like if he hadn't been typecast as "Norman Bates" so longago. "Kane" isn't quite as whacked-out as Norman, and far fewerpeople saw "Love and Human Remains than saw "Psycho," so we canhope that Ferguson will show us some hint of what Perkins MIGHThave been able to accomplish, had he been allowed to do so. . . .
AD
