Irina Palm
2007 Directed by Sam Garbarski
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Marianne Faithfull plays Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother who finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her...
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Irina Palm has the distinction of being a film that could so easily have been a saccharine melodrama, considering that it is about a grandmother looking for her first job to raise money for the life-saving treatment required for her grandson. Not the type of picture I actively seek out. At all. I avoided it for a over a year but at the insistence of a friend I buckled and watched the darn thing.
Marianne Faithfull is wonderful as Maggie the grandmother, and her understated performance is a huge part of why the movie works.
Kudos to director Sam Garbarski and the writers as well for focusing on Maggie's job rather than the relationship issues, which was no doubt the best way to avoid melodrama.The film is lovely, engaging, interesting, hilarious sometimes, and not something you are likely to forget.
Highly recommended.
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Tragically funny.
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How can a movie with such a horrible theme be so feel-good? I have no idea. But it was. Marianne Faithfulls character is absolutely adorable. Really enjoyed this.
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Wer hinter “Irina Palm” eine schlüpfrige Sexkömodie erwartet wird definitiv enttäuscht werden. Vielmehr ist der Film ein Drama mit einigen lustigen Film. Somit zählt “Irina Palm” zu den ruhigeren Filmen, aber einer der es wirklich wert ist gesehen zu werden.
Schon alleine die Geschichte des Films ist so dermaßen genial, dass man alleine deswegen schon einen Blick auf den Film werfen sollten. Hinzu kommt das Regisseur Sam Garbarski (Der Tango der Rashevkis) die Geschichte auch sehr gelungen erzählt. Auch wenn Garbarski noch nicht so viele Filme gedreht hat, beweist er bei „Irina Palm“, dass er es versteht Geschichten zu erzählen und Kameraeinstellungen zu finden.
Bei seiner Inszenierung kann der Regisseur aber auch auf seine Hauptdarstellerin zählen. Marianne Faithful (Marie Antoinette,…
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Irina Palm has the distinction of being a film that could so easily have been a saccharine melodrama, considering that it is about a grandmother looking for her first job to raise money for the life-saving treatment required for her grandson. Not the type of picture I actively seek out. At all. I avoided it for a over a year but at the insistence of a friend I buckled and watched the darn thing.
Marianne Faithfull is wonderful as Maggie the grandmother, and her understated performance is a huge part of why the movie works.
Kudos to director Sam Garbarski and the writers as well for focusing on Maggie's job rather than the relationship issues, which was no doubt the best way to avoid melodrama.The film is lovely, engaging, interesting, hilarious sometimes, and not something you are likely to forget.
Highly recommended.
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Why so serious? This would have been so much better as a Full Monty-style romp, though it is saved as it is by Marianne Faithfull.
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Bless Marianne, she's never been the greatest of actors (there's always a hollowness to her delivery of lines I find) but she is an icon and here, she gets to invert the alleged wild exploits of her youth as the ultimate rock chick (as Keith Richards said at his trial in '67 in which she figured, "we are not worried about petty morals") by playing Maggie, a 50 something frumpy grandmother who resorts to working in the sex trade of Soho, masturbating men for money, to raise funds for her terminally ill grandson's operation.
It's a small independant British film, mordantly funny with an almost Ken Loach air and very grubby approach to the subject matter. Thankfully, unlike Pretty Woman…
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One of the worst movies even made. The soundtrack sucks. Nothing interesting happens. Definitely, you lose your time,
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Tragically funny.