Before It Had a Name

2007
3.2| 1h30m| PG-13| en
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A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house.

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Also starring Giada Colagrande

Reviews

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
hockeymom2005 I am not an artistically inclined individual. I am a science minded woman and I felt that this movie was maybe one of those campy artsy type films on a budget. I watched part of it with my fiancé and my future step daughter. We tried very hard to find something in this film to keep our interest. My fiancé and his daughter voted it off and we moved on to Ocean's 13,but that is another story. Not to be deterred I awoke the next morning and gave the movie another shot. I began again watching this movie in earnest. I just don't get it,I thought I would get it.I thought the funniest part was the flushing of the ashes and the urn finding a spot by the fireplace being used as a vase for what appeared to be dead flowers. Interesting and still it had dead stuff inside. It was an odd and bizarre movie. Maybe this is what they were after,however I won't be tricked a second time!
stark3923 I understand wanting to make a movie that is edgy and different. I understand the previous reviewer comments that this is a miss-understood movie. My point is as soon as this movie ended my first comment was: " this is what happens when a rich princess wants to be a movie star and has no talent".....she uses daddy's' money to make a movie she wrote, directs, and pays for.....obviously to close to the movie to realize there was no character development and no directions such as a beginning, middle and ending.....the voyeur part was good and edgy but what was the point? I saw a women go to a house, find some pictures, screw the caretaker, come out side on a very cold night (not believable) to check on noise and runs over her caretaker lover....movie ends......some one educate my ignorant arss?? I really want to know what the point is....what was the directors' vision.....why no development of the dead lover? Why no background on the caretaker? What is the point of the night vision? What is the point of the lipstick on the car? Why a dead caretaker? Why tell us about an escaped mental patient/peeping tom? What's with the urn? Oh and the lamp is that suppose to signify whose' house this is? Territorial? Why? Why would the caretaker feel like it's his house? that aspect was never pursued......as for William Defoe...I rented this movie because he was in it and known for edgy characters.....write back and do tell me what I need to learn....I am just a mom in middle America who loves movies....Chris....
julie_bartholemy I rented this movie hoping for a good nice thriller, boy was I wrong. This movie makes no sense, doesn't really have a story and is just plain boring, I kept hoping for a nice twist in the plot or at least a surprise ending but no, sure Leslie dies in the end but I just didn't care.I have to admit the part I liked best and I thought was so funny is when she goes into the pantry and finds curry and says: "But you didn't like curry" and then there's this violin that strikes up as if she had just found bodies in the basement.To sum up, a strange, boring movie, I had high hopes but don't waste your time on it, it felt awkward and at times I felt more like I was reading the script rather than watching it being played out.
info-7317 This movie was the worst i've ever seen. It doesn't seem to have a plot but the time you realize this is far beyond the beginning of the movie so you have to watch the shut for a long time to recognize the total incompetence of the director, aka the sloth that plays the tampon chick in the movie, and we do not believe the Willem Dafoe in this movie, he's a clone, because the real Dafoe, like we know from "apocalypse now" and "the boon dock saints", would never agreed to such a script. Duh, (Da)foe wrote this bill shut together with his twenty years minus baby. This movie starts with the credits of the two main characters, Dafoe and Colagrande, and then the two script writers, Dafoe and Colagrande, and then the director, Colagrande. Bottomline (the story); Widow meets guy, guy bangs widow, widow smashes windscreen with guy who banged her. Title in Netherlands; The black widow (different title, same bullshit). DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! It's a total waist of time!!!