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...Czechoslovakia, the movie follows the life of Eliska (Ana Geislerova). A medical student in Prague, she and her lover are involved in the Resistance. When the Gestapo discovers their involvement, they’re forced to part ways; he disappears without a word, while she goes off to hide in the countryside village of Zelary with Joza (Gyorgy Cserhalmi), a simple woodcutter from the country who was a patient in her hospital. There is a kind of symmetry in this turn of events; the night before, Eliska saves Joza’s life by offering up her blood...
...fine performances. Sideways’ structure is painfully episodic, never allowing audiences to become fully engrossed in its obnoxious characters. Jack has a few funny moments, but more consistently comes off as annoyingly superficial. Miles is filled with self-pity—he suffers from depression without trying to hide it behind a façade of humor—and is utterly unwilling to try to improve his situation. For example, on their trip, Jack and Miles hang out with a waitress named Maya (Virginia Madsen) who’s smart and warm and gorgeous and…into...
...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...
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...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...