Nadia: a Russian Story of Love and Passion
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The movie is grungy, dark and feels independent - it's hard to imagine Hollywood royalty Nicole Kidman signing onto it, but she is really the reason this film remains interesting and engaging. Without her, I don't think I would have bothered to sit through all of it. Chaves 2 April Are you a giraffe? In this way begin the communication between a man and a woman who don't know each other, and at the same time, the questions and doubts in "Birthday Girl".
A film that i heard a lot of times, but i don't dare to see The woman that he finds comes from Russia. She seems to be that delicate woman, normal, not more. One day, in her birthday comes suddenly, his cousin and his friend. The man, begin to discover certain things. Since here, he don't going to be the lonely and routine man that always have been. Much of us going to think that this movie is just a regular one with a exploited plot. Much of us going to think that the action and thrills are sure and don't novel.
But "Birthday Girl" is just the opposite. This movie is full of good surprises, good performances and a imaginative plot that i had never seen and imagined. This romantic thriller with certain funny touch is an excellent natural film with a lot of proposes for the films of it kind. And I'm not sorry in say that this is a masterpiece. Good-Evening-Clarice 8 September Still, because I love Nicole Kidman, I decided to rent it last night. It proved to be quite worthy of watching. Sure, it isn't your basic American comedy, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that it is a very British movie, but that's why I liked it.
It was a change from all the other movies around, a breath of fresh air.
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Sure, there were some plot holes, but overall it worked. First off, Kidman was fabulous again in a very different, not very glamorous, but still quite sexy role. She just keeps proving that she is one of the top talents in Hollywood. Not only is her Russian accent when she speaks English effective, but there are times when she carries on long conversations in Russian and if you didn't know it was Nicole Kidman, you would never question her authenticity.
Harrison Ford should have taken note in "K David 25 August The critics didn't like this film. It bombed in the States and as a result received only a limited showing in Britain. Which was a great shame, because it represents British rather than American humour and should have been shown in Britain first. Nicole Kidman looks stunning and is a totally convincing Russian. Ben Chaplin is the Dustin Hoffman character from 'The Graduate', and 'Birthday Girl' has at least 4 scenes which remind the viewer of that s classic despite being a totally different story!
Sure it changes tack a number of times from comedy to black comedy to thriller to adventure - but it's memorable, moving and a weclome breath of fresh air compared to the average mega-budget blockbuster. See it with an open mind! MisterWhiplash 1 February Birthday Girl has a not too bad premise- good old English chum decides out of lonliness and maybe something else to order a mail order bride from Russia. It turns out, his order is not quite what he wanted, but she Nicole Kidman seems like a nice enough wife, until not what was planned happens in a series of events getting the english chum and his russian bride on the run.
Sometimes amusing, but it is not good enough as a movie since it can never really get into its characters and seems to float for part of the 2nd act and 3rd act.
Kidman is still sexy though. This is a clever, funny, sexy movie that starts as a romantic comedy and then becomes an edgy thriller.
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When he orders a Russian mail order bride over the Internet, she duly self-delivers herself to the airport in the form of Nadia Nicole Kidman. One of his main requirements in the arrangement was, "Someone you can really talk to. I think communication is key". But as John drives her home, he realises that Nadia can't speak English - or seems not to.
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Although John at first desperately tries to contact the aptly named 'From Russia with Love' marriage agency to cancel the deal, the language barrier becomes far less important when he discovers that Nadia is sexually adventurous and encourages him to indulge his every fantasy with her. Everything seems to be going perfectly for John until Nadia's Russian cousin, Yuri Mathieu Kassovitz , and his friend Alexei Vincent Cassel turn up and overwhelm his life.
Effusively friendly at first, they soon prove disturbingly dangerous, and John realises that all is not as it seems. The plot heads into unpredictable territory and although the ending is pretty crazy it is also satisfying in light of all the revelations that take place along the way.
The film has a lightness of touch, but also a dark side.
If I could compare it with any other film it might be Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild" - the sexually aggressive girl, the nerdy guy, the slowly blossoming relationship and the intrusion of a psychotic and dangerous boyfriend. The basic ingredients work in both movies.
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Ben Chaplin hits just the right note as the colourless bank clerk who actually has a repressed wild side, he just needs the right person to unlock it and set it loose. His performance is both funny and engaging. Pretty, sexy, and slim almost to the point of fragility, Nicole Kidman's Nadia looks vulnerable, but as we discover as the story unfolds, looks are deceiving. This is a captivating performance; she has little dialogue - and half of that is in Russian.
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The amazing Vincent Cassel plays Alexei. No one can play dangerous like this guy. I didn't realise that he made "Birthday Girl" before "Irreversible". His role here was a good warm up, he exudes unpredictability - look at that martial arts kick he does when he is jogging with John. It is an indication of John's growth of character when he actually takes him on. A lot of reviewers regard this as a flawed work, but I'm not so sure I can see the flaws. I enjoyed it from start to finish - I couldn't see how it was actually going to end, but it felt about right when it did. A sexy ride with Nicole Kidman who brings erotic heat to her character.
It deals with a shy thirty something bank clerk named John Ben Chaplin who subsequently didn't have a successful career from St Albans , he has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride named Nadia Nicole Kidman who shows her high range , she doesn't speak English , but the two begin to talk the international language anyway.
Nadia brings some color into his drab , dull life , as John hardly has time to wallow in his newfound bliss when he's besieged by problems.
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Before they share a future, they have to survive her past , somebody in for a big surprise. Then the bank clerk is beset by Russian strangers though no actor in the movie actually speaks Russian, nor does the director claiming to be Nadia's relatives Mattieu Kassovitz , Vincent Kassel. The timid clerk is drawn into a cobweb of deceit , fraud and robbing.
Good performances specially by Nicole Kidman as mysterious and sexy online mail-order bride who reportedly learned Russian language for the movie , as she went to the Russian Embassy in Australia for help in speaking Russian , she didn't work with any other coach on the set except the woman from the embassy. Decent film but with no surprises , the story is predictable , being developed in right way.
Adequate and thrilling musical score by Stephen Warbeck. Colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Oliver Stapleton. The motion picture was professionally directed by Jez Butterworth , though without originality. His feature film directorial hip debut was Mojo who also wrote and starred Ian Hart, Ewen Bremner, Aidan Gillen and Harold Pinter and was officially selected for the Venice Film Festival , being an outstanding critical and public success.
Butterworth's other film writing credits include Marc Munden's Christmas and David Giles' The Night of the Golden Brain, both of which he co-wrote with his brother Tom , besides he wrote the hit smashes titled 'The last legion' and 'Fair game'. Was this a comedy, thriller, romance or what? This film would have played better as a romantic comedy. Instead it was neither one thing nor another. All the performances were good, but somehow it missed the mark. More like a satire of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
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The plot was too silly for a thriller, the characters were caricatures and the uptight bank clerk would have gone to the police immediately they demanded cash. As a comedy, they could have got away with a preposterous plot and the equally preposterous ending, but as a thriller, it simply fell flat. Nicole Kidman can successfully play the sort of girl who could be a real head turner if she didn't dress like trash, combed her hair, got washed, and stopped lighting one cigarette from another.
The scenes of her puffing away on a cigarette casually hanging from the side of her mouth were hilarious. She probably substituted flea market perfume for deodorant. The two Russian accomplices were also good, and Ben Chaplin was suitably uptight as the "victim".
At first I thought he was too handsome to get a mail order bride, but to have made him a geek would have been too predictable.