Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

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Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Parker Lewis Lantana is a captivating Australian movie. The fact that it has nearly 17,000 IMDb votes, and over 200 user reviews is a testament to this fine movie directed by Ray Lawrence and written by Andrew Bovell.It's not an action movie, so if you're into fast and/or furious cars, Marvel superheroes, and so on, then please respectfully vacate your cinema seat, please. Just do so.The emotions that interweave in this high standard movie is incredible, and the subtlety draws you in. You can feel the tension as the scenes play out, and in a way you don't want the movie to end, so compelling it is. Lantana is a movie for the ages.

Imnozy The storyline of this movie unfolded more like an episode of a TV cop drama than a serious film. Quite a disappointment to me, as I've heard so much about it over the years.I can't fault any of the performances, they are all excellent actors and they made the most of what could have been so much better if it hadn't descended to almost melodrama in places. The ending in particular was painful to me - why oh why did they have to tick all the boxes and tie up all the relationship ends? I hate it when movies (particularly this one that appeared to take itself seriously)attempt to give us a warm feeling by showing how well everything turned out for most of the characters.LaPaglia was good, he doesn't know how to be otherwise - although his Aussie accent slipped in a couple of places. in the end I wasn't sure whether to think of his character as a cop who oversteps the mark way too often and hopefully now he has made up with his wife won't do it any more? And why the heart attack symptoms? Were we supposed to be expecting him to keel over at any point?So, why all the suspense - it really came to nothing much - there was no murder - everyone we suspected proved to be innocent. The poor lady psychiatrist was in dire need of one herself - her husband, who already had enough to be upset about was left to blame himself forever - and the rest of them (mainly) lived happily ever after.In effect it was just a fairytale with spooky music.

dushyant chaturvedi This is one of those rarities, a movie which walks the tightrope between being a perfect drama and an absorbing mystery and does it spectacularly well. The first hour is dedicated to establishing the various characters like the cop, his wife, the woman he is fooling around with, her estranged husband, the neighbors of the women etc. The interplay between the characters and the different situations are very fascinating. The second half is about the disappearance of one of the characters and how the others interact and react. The acting is brilliant with Anthony Lapaglia surprisingly getting a meatier role and performing much better than Geoffrey Rush. The screenplay is simply fantastic. It is a travesty that this was not nominated for any of the major awards. perhaps it being from Australia was a reason. This is a must watch movie for buffs who love their drama with a touch of intrigue. 4 out of 5. Very well made movie.

kafkan The film reminds me of a dissection. When we cut a cross section of a fruit, we see how the complex structures inside work together in a way we never would imagined when looking at the smooth outer skin. This movie shows the complicated relationships and messy psychologies that sit inside our clean pictures of community, work or family arrangements.This is mainly done though a handful of honest character profiles. Only seeing his recent work for American cop shows, I never thought of La Paglia as such a sincere actor. A clever and unexceptional narrative strings these characters together nicely.What the movie teaches us is that we are more normal than we think we are. And that we make things complicated though deceiving ourselves and others, through refusing to reflect on our relationships, and through being quiet.If the academic talked sincerely with his wife about their daughter, he wouldn't be alone with his grief, and his wife wouldn't have misconceptions about his situation. If Nick was more honest and forward with the woman he picked up, and with the police, the main problem of the movie would have been avoided. If Leon could communicate meaningfully with his wife (in the end this had to be mediated through their son), then he wouldn't be forced to look for meaning outside of their relationship.