In This World - what do you think?

it's an extraordinary film, i was moved and stunned throughout. the rest of the audience seemed gobsmacked as well, and lingered breathless for most of the credits.

the DV images are often breathtaking. The cameraman also shot "Dancer in the Dark" and "28 Days Later..." two milestones of DV but this film far surpasses either.

i don't know about a "simple road movie"...it's about a refugee and his very specific sort of journey (though it really only ends halfway in a certain sense). it's a fantastic example of a cinema of social concern.

the music seemed like a kind of compromise, one that i could accept.

i think this opens in the US soon.

I heart mr. winterbottom

Well, I guess everybody already said what I was going to say re:the music, Winterbottom, the film in general. Still, the best film I have seen so far this year, probably.

I can't believe it was shot on DV. Iran and Turkey look incredible.

Some flaws, though. Notably the wall-to-wall music. What were they thinking?

-- @d@ml (nordicskilla@hotmail.com), May 23rd, 2004.

Michael Winterbottom is quite a fascinating filmmaker, IMO. Even if he has yet to make a truly great film.

-- @d@ml (nordi

That may have been the only option, given the way it was filmed and imagined, and maybe going too far in a more fictional/dramatic direction would have been too much. But I don't know if it was a great film all the same.