Twixt
2012 Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.
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This is probably supposed to be clever. But it's not. It's shit. It looks cheap and fake. It has weird use of coloring without any logic or consistency. It is cut in a bizarre fashion. It has burnt out actors. It blends dream sequences and real life sequences without any style or sense.
Plot holes are Grand Canyon-sized. It's set in a small town with poor cell phone conditions, but with excellent broadband (even in the shittiest of motels) making HD Skype connections possible. When his wife calls up the writer on his crystal clear retina screen, she repeatedly tells him «It's your wife calling». «It's your wife calling».
This is the work of a director who sold his soul…
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If in 1996 your sweatshirt under overalls, neon green fanny pack, with neon green and pink high tops wearing self walked out of the film Jack and thought, there is no way that Francis Ford Coppola could possibly make a worse movie, than your 90s self was very wrong. Twixt is a cinematic abomination that is akin to what a dog throws up after drinking out of an unflushed toilet bowl. In every single way you can imagine this film is terrible. Do not watch it. Do not seek it out, because you are interested in seeing how bad it is. Do not accidentally watch it on late night TV, should it ever be released. Your life will forever be worse for it, should you see this movie.
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Is this some kind of Von Trier obstruction challenge? Make a film with fat Val Kilmer with the cheapest of special effects and apparently direct the film while intoxicated. The mind hurts trying to associate this film with the same filmmaker that made The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.
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I often find I disagree with both public and critics when it comes to horror films. This is a good example. Critics did not like it, except for CAHIERS DU CINÉMA who named it one of ten best film of the year. Audience hate it. It gets 5.0/10 on IMDb. Why this hate? I don't get it.
Just the visuals alone should fascinate any film buff. Francis Ford Coppola is in Twin Peaks land and I'm quite sure if David Lynch had directed this people would be calling it anything else than trash.
I love the idea of a town where time has no meaning and everyone is hunted by memories. Sounds like most people's inner landscape. So what if…
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Señores, no se vuelvan más locos. Coppola dejó de interesarnos después de El Padrino III. Drácula era tan bonita como insoportable, Jack, absolutamente repugnante, y Legítima defensa, una versión correcta de un grishamazo.
Luego llegaría el apaño de Supernova (favor a Walter Hill) y sus dos últimas peliculitas, Youth without youth y una con MARIBEL VERDÚ, así que no me vengan con que si este es Coppola o qué le ha pasado al director de El Padrino.
Twixt es un experimento de horror gótico digital, desenfadado y sin término medio, que avanza parsimonioso entre el genio y la vergüenza ajena. Es la peli con la que Coppola demuestra estar màs loco que Scorsese a la hora de experimentar con la nueva tecnología sin tener que levantarse demasiado de su silla de director.
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This was just absurd. There are moments that had me hoping for something good but then it all goes to weirdness-hell. It looks awful, is completely incoherent and the acting is for the most part terrible. Kilmer is decent, but he is always good so that's nothing new. The last half hour especially is horrible. Are all Coppola's "new" films like this?
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Con un punto de partida argumental ciertamente convencional (a la par que sugerente), que podría servir como inicio de cualquier novela de Stephen King o su consiguiente adaptación cinematográfica o televisiva, el filme pronto comienza a avanzar en una dirección bien distinta, algo incómoda para muchos y harto interesante para otros.
Leer crítica completa aquí:
http://www.elantepenultimomohicano.com/2013/06/twixt-critica.html
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If I had gone into TWIXT knowing nothing about it, I would have very quickly guessed that the film was the latest bit of oddball art from Guy Maddin. Well, a very silly film from Guy Maddin. Is TWIXT a bunch of hooey? Sure. But was I pretty curious all the way to its dopey ending about how it would play out and what sort of artistic flourish Coppola (yes, Francis Ford Coppola) would use next? Sure.
There are some great images (two men walking along a path pass by - and do not make note of - a grim little face in a ditch), interesting applications of color and light, and an endearing use of Edgar Allen Poe's ghost…
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Francis Ford Coppola gets all Lynchian on our asses with his totally awesome "Twin Peaks"-inspired phantasmagorical mystery/horror/thriller "Twixt".
Val Kilmer plays a bargain basement Stephen King style author who decides to stay in a po-dunk small town to write his newest book with help from the town's eccentric sheriff Bobby LaGrange (Bruce Dern)
One night, Kilmer's character has a weird dream about a little girl named Virginia (Elle Fanning, right after she starred in Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere", still the best film of Elle career) as well as iconic, troubled author Edgar Allen Poe, who once stayed in the same town.
How do they connect?
Visually stunning and flawlessly executed by a master filmmaker, "Twixt" is at times purposely non-sensical and…
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feels like an horrible failed mixture of david lynch and tim burton. looks too cheap to not be unintentionally funny. sometimes 80 minutes of auteurism can be very, very long.
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http://www.cineenserio.com/twixt-entranable-desproposito/
Twixt es su última película, que ha sufrido los problemas típicos de una película realmente independiente y no esas cosas que Hollywood se ha empeñado en vendérnos como tales. Twixt nos cuenta como un escritor en decadencia llega a un pueblecito para firmar unos libros y allí se encuentra con una niña muerta en un sueño, un sheriff un tanto majara y Edgar Allan Poe.
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A small, modern vampire film-noir set in rural America, late Coppola-style. I liked it.
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Elle Fanning es una hermosa y tierna chupasangre; ella es lo único que vale la pena de la película.
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Noteworthy and uncomfortable combination of has been actors, three-rights-to-make-a-left storytelling, and directorial self-therapy. Inadvertently a better statement on the importance of filmstock than Holy Motors or Uncle Boonmee.
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I often find I disagree with both public and critics when it comes to horror films. This is a good example. Critics did not like it, except for CAHIERS DU CINÉMA who named it one of ten best film of the year. Audience hate it. It gets 5.0/10 on IMDb. Why this hate? I don't get it.
Just the visuals alone should fascinate any film buff. Francis Ford Coppola is in Twin Peaks land and I'm quite sure if David Lynch had directed this people would be calling it anything else than trash.
I love the idea of a town where time has no meaning and everyone is hunted by memories. Sounds like most people's inner landscape. So what if…