354 Full of praise
“New York Times," Ninety！
“Variety Show", 90%！
“The day after the premiere of "Crazy Love", the official program of the Sundance Film Festival immediately announced the film critics' evaluation of this work. The first to bear the brunt were the comments from these two top authoritative media.
Both media outlets gave it a very high rating of 90%, which is eye-catching. For a small-scale love movie, this is incredible, and it is enough to compete with last year's hit "Blue Valentine" Comparatively, this also laid the foundation for the media evaluation of "Crazy Love". The reviews of "The New York Times" and "Variety" have been recognized by many fellow film critics..
Sundance's official review clearly expressed its love for this work, "The actors are neatly dressed, but other parts of the film are so naked, showing the true face of love without any disguise. This film Romance movies make other works of the same genre look so shallow, so boring, so boring.”
This is an official affirmation from the official program. Not only that, the official review of Sundance also gave a perfect score of 100 points. This is also the first perfect score given by the official since the opening of this Sundance. It is from this detail that we can see their admiration and pursuit of "Crazy Love".
In an instant, "Crazy Love" became the number one favorite for this year's Jury Prize！
Sundance is not the only media to give it a perfect score of 100. "Vanity Fair" and "USA Today" both gave it a score of 100..
Claudie Puig wrote a review for Vanity Fair, saying, "This is a unique and amazing small-budget independent film that puts those big-budget movies to shame. The power of time, the oppression of space , the torrent of life, has been reduced to a supporting role in the entire movie, love, only love, Derek Doremus has dedicated a beautiful movie that is touching and heartbreaking..”
“Catherine Langworthy of USA Today said, "Doremus showed his delicate touch of emotion and vivid interpretation of reality in this work, which is full of reflection; but it would not be as wonderful as it is without the two leading actors. , natural performances, and a searing, believable spark between these two people, this movie couldn't have been more successful..”
Three perfect scores, a full three perfect scores, "Crazy Love" has undoubtedly become the most critically acclaimed work since its opening at Sundance this year, and this is not the end, James Bernard of "Village Voice" gave Scored ninety-five points.
In his review, James said, "'Crazy' tells the story of a simple and pure truth: Love is crazy, but sometimes - just like life - love hurts. Derek Doremus tells a nuanced and true story that evokes fond memories of 'Blue Valentine' and 'Brokeback Mountain'’.”
Good reviews, good reviews, good reviews! The unanimous praise pushed "Crazy" to an incredible peak of reputation. A total of twelve media reviews were published in the official Sundance program, of which nine media gave it favorable reviews and two media gave it a neutral rating. Only one company gave negative reviews..
This negative review comes from Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly.
Careful people can notice that Lisa is not interested in the previous "Buried Alive" and "Pacific War", and both gave negative reviews. Regardless of whether she has personal grudges with Renly, it can be seen that for this Lisa is a new acting star who has risen rapidly in a short period of time, but Lisa doesn’t have much preference..
“Similar to Doremus' 2010 Sundance Film Festival's 'Idiot', the film shows an eye-catching level of performance, and the effortless performance becomes a bright spot on the screen, and the relationship between the two actors The chemical reaction is also worthy of recognition.
But the work itself is like a drugged-up Wes-Anderson learning from Sophia-Coppo in order to write a final thesis on "Love in New Jersey." ) movie, and then borrowed various clips, elements and ideas from countless classic works to create a hodgepodge of YouTube music videos——
A complete disaster.”
Lisa was full of fire and showed no mercy, belittling the movie to nothing, and even used YouTube to ridicule Drake's amateurism. She was biting and sharp. Her 30-point rating clearly shows her point of view..
However, this time, Lisa was alone. Among the twelve reviews in the official Sundance program, she was the only one to sing the opposite, and the only one whose score was below the passing line. Maybe she was waiting for "Crazy in Love" After a nationwide run, she was able to find like-minded partners, but now at Sundance, every other media outlet has poured in the praise. But there's one thing Lisa and everyone agrees on, and that's the casting.
Even Lisa, despite the negative reviews, still gave corresponding recognition to the actors’ performance and said, “This is the only highlight.”.
Compared with Lisa, the praises of other film critics are hotter and more turbulent; to be more precise, compared to the movie "Crazy Love", the focus of most film critics is on In addition to the actors' performances, including the two intermediate comments.
“Marie Gronvall of The New Yorker only gave it a 60-point rating. She had a very limited favorable impression of the movie itself, thinking that the work was only a passing standard, but her attitude towards the actors was completely different..
“Felicity Jones and Renly Hall give surprising performances in this movie.
There is a childlike innocence and simplicity in Jones' performance, which vividly displays the fragility and madness in love; Hall is undoubtedly the brightest highlight on the whole big screen, dull, focused, young, hesitant, sad, and fanatical , those eyes are filled with the whole world. When the eyes dim, the world also falls apart..
Both actors, especially Hall, imbue the film with a magical quality.”
It is unimaginable that Mary only gave 60 points. Watching this evaluation alone, I thought it was a perfect score. From this aspect, we can also see Mary's hatred of iron and her strong praise for the actors' performances..
Another reviewer who gave it a score of 65 did the same. Rene Rodriguez of the Chicago Tribune said of the film, "I can't figure out why anyone would rate such a haunting movie. , stingy, bittersweet chick romance movie." He even complained that this movie is worse than Drew-Barrymore's sweet romantic comedy, "At least the latter can make you sleep with a smile..”
However, Rene greatly praised the performances of the two actors, "The chemical reaction between them makes people want to believe that this love story is real. Especially Hall, he supported it with his performance alone." It brought about the emotional changes and time changes of the whole movie. After "Buried Alive", he once again proved his absolute strength..”
In addition, Rene also mentioned Jennifer Lawrence, "Her delicate performance in a limited space is commendable." It can be seen that Rene praised the overall performance level of the movie..
This is really an interesting phenomenon.
For a love movie, in fact, what people pay most attention to is always the "love" itself, whether it is romance, tragedy, etc. This is true for works such as "500 Days of Summer" and "Blue Valentine" , even the famous works such as "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally" are no exception..
It’s not that the actors’ performances in romantic movies are not outstanding enough. Diane Keaton won the Oscar for her role in “Annie Hall” that year; it’s that romantic movies are trapped by their own themes. As well as the frame, the performance space is relatively narrow.
Take "Brokeback Mountain" as an example. The script gives the two protagonists a lot of space for inner drama, and outlines the emotional changes of the characters. It sacrifices the romantic elements of love movies and focuses on the psychological state of the characters. In fact, this is divorced from love. The category of movies should be classified as drama movies..
Therefore, it is not an easy task for a simple love movie to highlight the actors' performances..
But now, "Crazy Love" has successfully broken the shackles, and the performances of the two actors have become the biggest highlight of the entire work. In addition to one negative review and two neutral reviews, other praises from the official program are even more in this way.
“genius! genius! genius! Renly Hall once again wows the big screen! Just for that heartbreaking look in the movie's final scene, Hall's performance deserves to be in the top ten of this year's best performances! What's more, that's not Hall's best performance in the movie. His expressions, movements, eyes and lines, Hall's performance is completely natural, sweet to the extreme, bitter to the extreme, and helpless to the extreme..”
“It is a pleasure to watch Hall's performance. This is a completely different role and a completely different way of acting, but he can always give the character a special texture, between his personal charm and the role. The boundaries between performances are blurred between their personalities. Jones and Lawrence's performances are very good, even exceptionally good, but in front of Hall, they are still slightly inferior. Just to watch the performance, I am willing to watch this again movie once.”
“If someone said that Hall's performance in "Crazy" was more difficult than "Buried", then I would not agree; however, Hall showed profound acting skills in both works. As far as I'm concerned Personally, I like the performance in "Crazy Love" more. I can feel that Hall's control is even better. That kind of smooth performance, quietly completing the character creation in every move. His skills are unimaginable, he is only twenty-one years old.”
“This is a very interesting movie. The performances of the actors bring out the wonderful qualities of the movie. The two female characters of Jones and Lawrence show their vulnerability in love, but also show their strength in trying to change the status quo of their lives. , the performances of the two young actresses undoubtedly successfully completed the characters; but the biggest highlight of the movie is undoubtedly Hall, the unique Hall. In several scenes, he not only gave an Oscar-level performance, but also dedicated himself to Generation Y. Leader-level performance.”
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Full of praise！
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