Armand
same recipes. interesting atmosphere. and only sin is the too large ambition of director to present more than it is reasonable in this case. result - a not coherent story. seductive images and a thin plot. the atmosphere seems more important than story. every image, every reference is pillar for a dark portrait who has not beginning or end. and that is the basic problem because the entire work is almost a web without spider. the acting is prisoner of plot. and the plot is confuse and chaotic. short, a nice film and for the fans of genre a good oasis. but it is not enough. maybe, for possibilities of subject. and for actors who deserve better roles and opportunities to do a work with reasonable result.
howieroarkd
I watched this on a lark on Showtime when I got home from work to kill a little time before bed. The description made it sound like an interesting taut thriller. Instead I was subjected to a meandering goofy ill-conceived premise with no meaty plot, but lots of artsy cinema shots.This movie had that sort of pretentious "if you are smart enough you'll read our minds to get something from this drivel" delivery that I often got in college from overzealous gender-studies or other irrelevant liberal arts classes. You know the ones, they put half a breast on a piece of paper and you're supposed to get that it symbolizes a repressed woman held under a sheet of ice under the Eiffel Tower by Neptune-"how can you not see that? You must be stupid!"Avoid this unless you REALLY REALLY want to see the actress who plays Grace "grace" you with her pleasant to look at upper half. Be forewarned, you'll have to get through about 3/5 of the movie to get there. Tivo it and fast forward. I'm only giving it a two for the assets you get to see about 3/5 of the way through the movie. Fast-forward is your friend!
movieman_kev
Two sisters, Grace and Violet (Sienna Guillory and Alicia Silverstone respectively) who are fairly reclusive take in a drunken thieving sort (Joe Anderson) to stay with them awhile. Unbeknownst to him, they have plans for him, plans that might unravel when it seems Violet may be getting closer to him, much to Grace's chagrin. This is a fairly well-acted (for the first half at least until Sienna starts to madly overact) women's Lifetime-esquire melodrama under the guise of a thriller. A tad too estrogen driven for most, yet solid enough. Nothing I'd personally watch again though.Eye Candy: Sienna Guillory gets topless My Grade: C-
Anne
Silence Becomes You was most likely one of the worst movies that I have seen of all time. The cast did a wonderful job, however the plot was confusing and not very entertaining. The picture and quality of the movie overall was good, however the messy plot, and the confusing events don't make up for the time I lost watching the movie. If the events weren't so scrambled, and more was explained, I feel the movie could have been a hell of a lot more interesting. I watched the movie, sadly, three times, just to understand the little bit of sense in which I made of it, and honestly, the only way I would ever watch this movie again is if I were to get it for free, or if I was locked in a windowless room for the rest of my life with nothing else to do.
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