I saw the world premiere of "Jack and Rose" at the Sundance Film Festival, and I had such high hopes for this movie. And it delivering on some things - the cinematography was great. The location could not have been more beautiful and appropriate. The acting was very good (I thought that there were times when Camilla out-shown Daniel Day Lewis). However, i felt that the story was not as originally approached as it could have been. And the way the movie was edited didn't seem to go with the story. I understand using a disjointed time line in order to communicate confusion and other emotions, but in this case it was just distracted, and added absolutely nothing. I was also disappointed that some of the sub-stories did not fully develop when they were some of the most interesting parts of the movie.
The ending is very beautiful and does a good job of tying up the movie - until the epilogue. The director said that she would never consider taking the epilogue out, but I think that it needs to be handled differently. It seems like she thinks her audience is stupid by putting the title "2 years later" - it's pretty clear from the location change and change in appearance of the character that it's later. Come on, give us some credit.
I think that if this film was re-edited, it would be much, much better.
The ending is very beautiful and does a good job of tying up the movie - until the epilogue. The director said that she would never consider taking the epilogue out, but I think that it needs to be handled differently. It seems like she thinks her audience is stupid by putting the title "2 years later" - it's pretty clear from the location change and change in appearance of the character that it's later. Come on, give us some credit.
I think that if this film was re-edited, it would be much, much better.