The Good Heart R
Everyone needs a refuge from the world.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 10, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Dano, Isild Le Besco & Brian Cox | |
Directed by | Dagur Kari | |
Screenwriting by | Dagur Kari | |
Composition by | Dagur Kari, Slowblow & Orri Jonsson | |
Director of Photography: | Rasmus Videbæk |
Entertainment Reviews:
“The Big Apple of this evanescent tone poem is an invented noctural landscape featuring speechifying eccentrics and absurdist moments that feel northern European in sensibility.”
Entertainment Weekly
The relationship of the characters played by Cox and Dano, more innocent than the dynamic the two actors explored nine years ago in L.I.E., makes for an eccentric buddy-film gone right.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: C --
This odd couple never moves beyond oddness and the lower-depths shenanigans grate.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 1.5/4 --
But the film has no grasp of reality. And, worse, it has no feel for poetry, settling for pat contrasts between the two men, and taking its cardiac imagery to an absurd and literal conclusion.
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Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: C --
A hangover toast to an old New York with original wood paneling, cassette tapes and indoor smoking
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I.E. Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Icelandic writer/director Dagur Kári embraces the deadpan, absurdist comedy of Finland's Aki Kaurismäki and Norway's Bent Hamer, but in place of the usual laconic antihero, he offers Cox's bellowing, Beethoven-maned troglodyte.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A solid film buoyed by great performances, despite its flawed denouement and unnecessarily sappy message that seems tacked on as an afterthought.
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From the Front Row
Product Description:
Dagur Kari's character study THE GOOD HEART follows crusty old bar owner Jacques (Brian Cox) as he trains a generous young homeless man named Lucas (Paul Dano) to take over his beloved bar. Jacques suffers from a very bad heart, and understands that any day could be his last. However, this does not stop him from chain smoking, drinking nonstop, and hurling an endless stream of poetically vulgar insults at the regulars who gather at his establishment every night. As the two begin to slowly influence each other, Lucas falls in love with April, and Jacques insists that women have no place in his bar.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 89,774
- UPC: 876964003094
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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