1994 Directed by Peter Jackson
Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.
Melanie Lynskey Kate Winslet Sarah Peirse Diana Kent Clive Merrison Simon O'Connor Jed Brophy Peter Elliott Gilbert Goldie Geoffrey Heath Kirsti Ferry Ben Skjellerup Darien Takle Elizabeth Moody Liz Mullane Moreen Eason Pearl Carpenter Lou Dobson Jesse Griffin Glen Drake Nic Farra Chris Clarkson Ray Henwood John Nicoll Michael Maxwell Raewyn Pelham Toni Jones Glenys Lloyd-Smith Wendy Watson Show All…
Creature del cielo, Amizade Sem Limites, Criaturas celestiales, Божествени създания, Almas Gêmeas, Créatures célestes, Engel min engel, Himmelska varelser, 천상의 피조물, Supreme, Небесные создания, Himmlische Kreaturen
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Best scene in the movie is when they spend 20 minutes running away in terror from Orson Welles. Real life situations.
i too would develop an unhealthy obsession with kate winslet to the point of delusion
I’m going to the fourth world. It’s sort of like heaven, only better, because there aren’t any Christians.
I've always admired the way this creates enough empathy for the characters that you don't hate them for what they do, but doesn't create so much empathy that you can completely forgive them or otherwise not see the horror in their actions. It's pretty economical and energetic. I miss this Peter Jackson.
My first viewing of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures took place in the 1990s and admittedly it had left a bad taste in my mouth! Much of my disappointment stems from the fact Peter Jackson chose to focus heavily on the girls means of escapism instead of focusing on the elements in their lives that caused them to seek escape in the first place! Their fantasizing was merely a symptom not worthy of the screen time given to it!
However it made for great cinema so artistic license overrode the desire to try and seek answers so that we could begin to have an understanding of the root cause.. My question coming into the film was what could turn two young,…
86/100
I've soured so much on Peter Jackson over the past decade or so that I was a bit scared to revisit this, for fear that it would join The Frighteners in my retroactive discard pile. Not to worry—it's still a disturbingly euphoric marriage of his vulgar instincts with his newfound ambition, achieving an ideal balance between the two that he's never been able to recapture. The breakneck pace and swooping camera adroitly reflect Pauline and Juliet's adolescent ardor, and it's somehow no less galvanizing, 20 years and umpteen performances later, to see Lynskey and Winslet burst into the medium together, fully formed and ferocious. (I didn't launch the Skandies until the following year, but it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't have been in a dead heat for Best Actress, unless Winslet was seen as Supporting. Only possible competition would have been Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction.) Wrote some additional thoughts in a Scenic Routes column.
