ShangLuda
Admirable film.
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Curt
Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Jaime Rebolledo
Dolls is a visual poem, a large haiku of three parts that walks across the four seasons. A beautiful movie that takes it's time to seduce us with suggestive images and touch us with both daily and transcendental situations. Takeshi Kitano, responsible for movies like Hana-bi and Zatoichi, decides to tell three stories simultaneously, charged with feelings and metaphors, subtleties, suggestive scenes and shots, and a strong and profound idea of the connection between all beings.An outstanding and beautiful movie, 3 depressing tales, everything connected by mysterious forces.
zerodowntozero
One of my friends once asked me to talk about Dolls, since it was a movie that really charmed me, and it's one of my favorites. I really had to think carefully before starting to give any description... How can you describe a movie like this one? You should see it.Too hard to concentrate in words the symbols, atmospheres, emotions, silence, and everything you can find in this great work if you're thoughtful and receptive enough.I'd really not recommend it if you like "light" and fast paced films, that's for sure. Dolls is so sad it sticks to your soul for hours, and its best parts are the ones you can catch from images, metaphors and details, that speak and live more than the plot itself and its dialogs can do. This film is made for thinking, and it has a very special way to show thoughts, not for everyone in my humble opinion. Dolls is 3 love stories, but I think love isn't the "main" theme... I'd say it covers a series of details, feelings and absurd things. The characters are always stroke by a world with a series of incidents and expectations that brings 'em far away from their dreams. Dolls is aesthetic, and poetry.
Lisa Falour
I am pleased to rate this a ten out of ten! I do not go for "odd" movies much but this one is different. There are several story plots and you have to sit patiently and watch them play out. The theme is relationships and love. The colors are beautiful, it is well acted, and the music is gorgeous. I did cry a lot though. If you don't want to get out your handkerchief, then don't see this one. It would be good to see this movie with a lover. If you are lonely and don't have a lover, this might cheer you up, because it shows how relationships can be sad, negative and even fatal things. I am perhaps swept up in the emotion of just seeing this film, but really, I think it deserves a "ten."
beatnick49
I saw this movie late last night and while I saw only one hour of it, I liked it very much. It is a great film.There is a lot of silence in the movie but it works. In the tradition of the French film, Friday Night, it is a movie without dialogue that delivers.On top of that it is just a nice movie in terms of nature and visuals. It is story of love, no violence, profanities, heroics, or sex or clichés. The photography is wonderful, that scene of the couple walking through the snow beneath the lamp really stuck with me. Our subjects are in fact tragic heroes, giving it a degree of realism. Two of the stories end in tragedy, while the third is bitter sweet. It should also be said that though the characters do not say much they are largely sympathetic. They just want to stay with or be with the ones they love.I might also add that the women in this film are just so pretty and petite.Can't say much but this is great good movie.9 out of 10. Nice work Kitano and cast.
