Ohjaus:
David AttwoodKuvaus:
Ulf BrantåsSävellys:
Rob LaneNäyttelijät:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Nicola Duffett, Barbara Barnes, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Timothy Carlton, Edna Doré, Felicity Dean, George Anton (lisää)Suoratoistopalvelut (1)
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Stuart A Life Backwards details the friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (Alexander) and a chaotic homeless man (Stuart), whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. As Alexander learns more about Stuart's complicated life and traumatic childhood, he asks if he can write his story and Stuart advises him to write the story backwards, so that it's "more exciting - like a Tom Clancy murder-mystery". As their remarkable alliance develops, Stuart gradually recounts his life story in reverse, his resilient personality and dry sense of humour giving the story an almost tragi-comic edge. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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When you get Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch it’s practically every movie buff’s obligation to get that movie and watch it with gusto. And watch it with gusto I did, but it wasn’t as polished as I’d expected. I mean Tom Hardy was absolutely amazing, there’s not debating that. As expected, he was the sturdiest beam that held the qualities of the story together. Then obviously the plot is another thing you can count on with a movie like this. But that’s about it. Benedict delivered an inconspicuous and standard performance. The editor, on the other hand, probably puffed on some hash because for example at the beginning, I couldn’t understand the relationship between Tom and Benedict. I don’t know if it was intended, but Benedict comes across as really naïve. Tom portrays a junkie and Ben simply moves in with him and pretends it’s nothing. It seemed the story was so brutal and sad that at times the authors tried to make it lighter with some chill scenes. Something like Trainspotting. But I don’t think it worked out too well in this case.
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Great acting from Hardy and Cumberbatch is this soberly presented human-interest story with a pacemaker instead of a heart. Stuart’s story has the ideal balance of humor and sad to depressive (and bloody) moments and Attwood is fairly successful at supplementing them with animated passages (most likely) similar to the illustrations in the book. Stuart isn’t trying to be anybody else, he just brings his own story. Simply a nice movie about the suffering and the joy of a friend... who’s homeless.
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