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It was 1973, and the climate was changing.
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
The Ice Storm
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Kevin Kline Joan Allen Sigourney Weaver Jamey Sheridan Christina Ricci Tobey Maguire Elijah Wood Adam Hann-Byrd Michael Cumpsty Katie Holmes Henry Czerny David Krumholtz Kate Burton William Cain Maia Danziger Michael Egerman Christine Farrell Glenn Fitzgerald Allison Janney Jonathan Freeman Barbara Garrick Dennis Gagomiros John Benjamin Hickey Tom Flagg Byron Jennings Miles Marek Colette Kilroy Ivan Kronenfeld Daniel McDonald Show All…
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Η παγοθύελλα, La tormenta de hielo, 아이스 스톰, Ledová bouře, Der Eissturm, Η Παγοθύελλα, Jäämyrsky, Ice Storm, סופת קרח, Jégvihar, Tempesta di ghiaccio, Burza lodowa, Tempestade de Gelo, Furtuna de gheață, Ледяной ветер, Buz Fırtınası, Крижана буря, Cơn Bảo Băng Giá, 冰风暴, 冰風暴
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Ang Lee is simply one of the greatest directors alive. Last year's Life Of Pi solidified that for me. I would compare him to Stanley Kubrick in the way he is able to adapt to many different genres, and master them. Examining any three of his films in a row, in this case 1997's The Ice Storm, an atmospheric, fatalist drama of 1970's New England suburbanite family dysfunction, sandwiched between 1995's Jane Austen period comedy Sense And Sensibility, and 1999's civil war drama Ride With The Devil, shows an artist unwilling to settle into a comfort zone.
When I first saw The Ice Storm, during its theatrical release in 1997, I knew it would become one of the best films…
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Winter storms. A president's impeachment. The emotional death of the nuclear family. This is the only kind of wholesome American Fucked Up Family Fun that Ang Lee could give us. And it's just about perfect (give or take a football scene here or there).
I miss the stark dramas of the [late] 90's that just did not care if you liked them or not because they were painting a truth that you can't find anymore in the kind of indie cinema we have now interspersed throughout the steamers, or with the very few that do actually go to theatres. Though this has a more prestige presence viewed through the lense of its cast and its director, who by that time…
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The Ice Storm belongs to Ang Lee's more under-the-radar works, and for all the right reasons.
As a novel adaptation, The Ice Storm is unfortunately handicapped by the limitations of the script, or the book, considering I haven't read it to tell the difference, itself, despite its undeniable excellence from the acting department, as well as some admirable style demonstrations from Lee.
The story is a multi-threaded take on the effects of the sexual liberation on the traditional American family structures in the 1970s. We follow two suburban families, whose lives are intertwined by their sexual explorations, both from the teenage and the adult members. The teenage storyline ultimately feels less developed and involving compared to the adult one, and…
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An elegy for the end of an era that feels more mournful because of how much Lee refuses to mock these characters for their flaws, embracing their insecurities instead. The tragedy of the final act resonates so much more than the average suburbanites-behaving-badly genre entry because we can feel the sadness throughout the film. And his work with ensemble was arguably never better. Everyone here strikes just the right chord. It's a great film.
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The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody’s 1994 novel, possesses a disposition which comprises very little positivity and observes director Ang Lee establishing an appropriately frosty world for two small-town households in emotional descent. The screenplay, by James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) incorporates events which adopts increasing levels of bleak despair, and Mark Friedberg’s art direction is extraordinary in its execution. Ang Lee accomplishes a terrific job of orchestrating a succession of moody and atmospheric scenes as well as managing to provoke outstanding performances from the films cast. This movie is a lovely adaptation of the novel along with it being a portion of isolated reality that is disquieting and unsettling.
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Children reflect the behavior of their parents and the physical/cultural environment around them either directly or indirectly, and this is shown ingeniously in The Ice Storm, as are the effects of parental unawareness and neglecting conflict, but this friction will show its face one way or another no matter how much we try to avoid it; in an era brimming with confusion and changes, new issues will need addressing, and many adults are either unequipped or simply unwilling to do so, turning to anything but the conflicts they are faced with until it’s too late to turn back the clock and help with what can now never be confronted properly.
The titular squall is emblematic of so many things going on…
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there is something so sad & pathetic about the adults in The Ice Storm. their disconnect & isolation, esp in the adults. kevin kline having an affair with the sexy neighbor? of course he is! but she bores of him & *flees from her own house*, leaving him to sit around in his boxers. joan allen's frigid wife starts stealing? of course she does! and is immediately caught! these people are so miserably ill-equipped to even function, let alone flourish, within the cliches they have become. not sure how this worked when it came out, or how it still does through 20+ years of white suburbia in crisis movies & period pieces like Mad Men (diff era i know). but it's top-tier. actors at the top of their game playing lost & isolated characters. that final scene is gutting. the unresolved silence & quiet sobs of the final scene. nobody communicates. as kline's ben says, they are always "on the verge".
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Holds up ever-so-slightly less well now than in 1997, if only for underlying its themes with too heavy a hand, between the Fantastic Four framing device and the many, many shots of ice cracking, freezing, melting, etc. Superb in many respects, though, with Kevin Kline the stand-out as a man who's utterly out of sorts as a father and a husband.
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I always considered Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm a great film, yet I stayed away from revisiting it for many years only to now feel like… yeah, I have been underestimating it. I do believe it is a key film about the bourgeois 1970’s, with Lee and screenwriter James Schamus literally transporting into the intimate feels and hungers of the ’70’s counterculture; key absorption into a time of precarious sexual liberation and all its clumsiness; key examination of how parents’ selfish mistakes can set-up their children to make the same mistakes. All of the hiccups, the slip-ups, the embarrassments take place over Thanksgiving 1973 in Connecticut, as based on the Ron Moody novel.
The main married couple is Kevin Kline…
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A (not-so) Happy Thanksgiving.
Eat good, hug ya mom, and watch out for frozen roads and those pesky down power lines.
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