[.ca] In the Bedroom (Sans issue)

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Lorsqu'un jeune acteur s'essaie à la réalisation, il est souvent accueilli avec scepticisme. Le premier film de Todd Field, In the Bedroom (Sans issue), avec ses cinq nominations aux oscars en 2002, est un démenti plus qu'encourageant. Quand Frank Fowler est assassiné par l'ex-mari de sa petite amie, jouée par une Marisa Tomei parfaite en biche affolée, le monde de ses parents (impeccables Sissy Spacek et Tom Wilkinson) s'écroule. Habitués à un cadre de vie paisible et aisé, ils ne peuvent se remettre de la perte du fils chéri. Mais après le choc, viendra le temps encore plus glacial de la vengeance. Bien qu'il partage avec Nanni Moretti une pudeur refusant le voyeurisme, Todd Field emprunte pourtant un tout autre chemin. Là où le réalisateur de La Chambre du fils envisageait le deuil sous un angle très introspectif et intime, Field laisse s'exprimer l'amertume et la colère dans une réalisation à la fois intense et contemplative. In the Bedroom analyse, de façon hypnotique, la quasi-impossibilité de reprendre une vie normale après un tel bouleversement. De ce film troublant, on ressort encore plus convaincu que la perfection sans faille n'existe pas. --Helen Faradji

You either love it or hate it .:
I loved it ... my girlfriend fell asleep . This is the 2 major reactions for this film . If you like slow but very deep story ; if you ever lost a loved one ; if you understand the harsh reality of a little detail , painfully striking you deep into your hart ; if you prefer exellent cinematography insted of digital graphics - this is your film . Small East coast town , usual people , usual little problems ... and tragedy strikes . The only son is killed by the ex of his girlfriend . But legal sistem works at it best , and killer still on the street . Parenths of the dead boy se him everywhere in this little town . What would you do ? The moments of this movie , which shocked me the most : First - when father walked in the son's room ... camera slowly shows the close on the floor , short on the chear ...the pillow with a headprint still on it ... he touches it ... and I swear , I felt the pain . Second - when father faced the killer on the street. He looks at him ... slowly lookes down... and lookes back at him with the same speed as he rises hand with a gun . And last one - when father quietly walks back to the bedroom... we shocked by surprise - his wife is awake and waiting in the bad ... few quiet seconds ... Did you do it ? - we shocked by her question as much as he was . PS: For some reason , this film reminded me " Ice Storm ". You really understand what you have , only when the tragedy strikes .

so familiar, it's compelling...:
reading other reviews of this movie, most critism is based on the fact that yes, this movie is slow-paced and doesn't follow the obligatory film course of "grab your attention-climax-pull everything together into a cute little knot," but instead documents - in almost the most classy and breathtaking way i've ever witnessed - actual human emotion, and a situation not normally taken on from this perspective. this movie is very mature and will not be digested well by those who aren't, but if anything, most anyone should be able to enjoy the scenery and simple artistic value in this film. also, the acting was all very well done - each character was well developed and consistent. personally, i thought wilkinson was incredibly charming, and all of the other actors seemed perfect for their part. although you may not want to watch this film again and again, those who can appreciate it will be affected by it, and most likely impressed.

deservesto be 5 stars because its one of 2001's best:
powerful, emotional, shattering, shocking..this movie hooks you in with all those ingredients....acting that is superb crossing its T's and dotting it's I's with performances that are all those ingredients...Nick Stahl(Bully, Terminator 3:Rise Of The Machines) comes back for Marisa Tomei(Cousin Vinny, The Watcher) and her 2 boys...everything is going great until Tomei's violent and jealous ex comes and tries to get back into the boys and hers life...meanwhile Stahl's parents are concerned...the most shocking part would have to be when Stahl is killed..it just was like...oh crap....then Stahl's parents start to act weird and then Stahl's dad played with power by Tom Wilkinson(Rush Hour, The Patriot)..takes matters in his own hands and drags Tomei's ex to the middle of the woods and shoots him dead and Wilkinson and his friend bury the body deep in the woods...very emotional on the scale...fueled by the leads. Sissy Spacek(Carrie and Affliction) also stars as Stahl's mother.

P U:
I saw this in the movies. It was awful. I kept expecting something to happen. It didn't. It held the same rhythm throughout. I liked the actors. This movie was just yuk. I don't understand the high rating. 1 star is too good.

A Quiet Powerhouse:
"In the Bedroom" is like a tightly tied knot that is being pulled tighter and tighter until the string finally breaks. From the initial tension between the parents and the girlfriend to the killing, to the grieving and finally the cathartic revenge, the film holds a tight grip on the viewer and does not let go. What I found most intriguing about this powerful film is the slow disintegration of the happy surface veneer of the marriage of the two parents. The tragedy forces the parents to confront their own faults, fears and ill feelings concerning their son and each other. The silence is finally broken, and the lack of communication in their marriage as a whole is finally addressed. The scenes intimate the sometimes vast difference between what is displayed in public and what is really happening underneath the surface of a relationship behind closed doors. The confrontation between Spacek and Wilkinson is one of the strongest and most potent scenes I have seen in a long while. "In the Bedroom" is a difficult film to watch. It is not easy to experience the tension, the grief and the rollercoaster of emotions that the characters face, but there are few films in recent memory that capture these emotions so vividly and realistically.