The Good Heart R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 6, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Mongrel Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Brian Cox, Paul Dano & Isild Le Besco | |
| Directed by | Dagur Kari | |
| Screenwriting by | Dagur Kari | |
| Composition by | Slowblow, Orri Jonsson & Dagur Kari | |
| Director of Photography: | Rasmus Videbæk |
Entertainment Reviews:
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“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
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: 4.6/10 --
The movie's two bright spots are Cox and Dano, who perform excellently despite the dull inevitabilities the script forces on them.
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NPR
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
Rating: C --
Welcome to New York City Skid Row by way of Reykjavik, Iceland. In the Paris-born, Iceland-raised Dagur Kari's "The Good Heart," you will find a New York City unlike any other.
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Boston Herald
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
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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