I saw an incredible movie last night I had to mention, I was at the local trade/buy movie place and found "A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD" for .99, you will recall the movie from all the hyperbole Colin Farrell received for a full frontal nude scene he did which was cut by the director after a screening audience were reportedly gasping so much that it was affecting the artistic flow of the film. The movie is so heartfelt from the poignant connection you feel as the two main characters have their first intimate contact at age 16 to the closing frames with the ambiguous ending. Colin is simply amazing as the romantic lead, the level of tenderness he achieves with his boyhood love is so sweet and innocent, hard to imagine from someone as hard ass as the reputation that belies him. The scene when they are dancing and kissing on the balcony to the strains of the Mozart aria is both erotic and magical, reminiscent of classic Hollywood.
The most emotional part for me was when they were watching ALL ABOUT EVE b/c one of my very best friends in this life and many previous ones instantly came to mind as this was the last film we saw together not long before he passed.
Bobby (Colin) moves to NY to be with Johnnie and Johnnie is now living with a woman, a very colorful woman named Clare. We later find out that Clare is really in love with Johnnie but can get what she truly wants only from Bobby (see the movie to find out). The chemistry really isn't there between Bobby and Clare even awkward at times, like he's there in body but not in spirit and Colin shows us this emotional dichotomy perfectly. Clare soon discovers while she loves Johnnie that the love of Johnnies life is Bobby but what she doesn't know then is the same is true of Bobby which we find out as she sees them dancing and she has a painful epiphany. What she does after coming to terms with this is to say she is going to leave to see her mother in Philly for a few days but she's actually saying goodbye and then she does something I didn't find to be true of her character which I thought was cruel, she tried to get Bobby to leave Johnnie and go to Philly with her and he tells her NO at first but then once she asks again finally he understand what she is really asking of him and gives her a resigned NO................... See This Movie, I always knew Colin was an amazing actor but I never dreamed he was capable of such an ingénues intimacy.
The most emotional part for me was when they were watching ALL ABOUT EVE b/c one of my very best friends in this life and many previous ones instantly came to mind as this was the last film we saw together not long before he passed.
Bobby (Colin) moves to NY to be with Johnnie and Johnnie is now living with a woman, a very colorful woman named Clare. We later find out that Clare is really in love with Johnnie but can get what she truly wants only from Bobby (see the movie to find out). The chemistry really isn't there between Bobby and Clare even awkward at times, like he's there in body but not in spirit and Colin shows us this emotional dichotomy perfectly. Clare soon discovers while she loves Johnnie that the love of Johnnies life is Bobby but what she doesn't know then is the same is true of Bobby which we find out as she sees them dancing and she has a painful epiphany. What she does after coming to terms with this is to say she is going to leave to see her mother in Philly for a few days but she's actually saying goodbye and then she does something I didn't find to be true of her character which I thought was cruel, she tried to get Bobby to leave Johnnie and go to Philly with her and he tells her NO at first but then once she asks again finally he understand what she is really asking of him and gives her a resigned NO................... See This Movie, I always knew Colin was an amazing actor but I never dreamed he was capable of such an ingénues intimacy.