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elski · #41 Post by **elski** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:15 pm

tilly wrote:So you must check what they tweet on your phone?

No on the computer just another tab open like for here, as I said for me it's just like being on another forum just things being fed to you and you don't have to navigate around. With the 140 character limit you can just glance at a tweet and only bother reading if a word of interest stands out you get quite quick at skim reading it. There's probably a few people here that do the same with facebook but I only rarely visit there. A lot of ShowFF and other film company tweets are generated from facebook and when preston generates a film page on the front site and thread for here it also generates a tweet on the FMUK twitter feed.

prettyxcool · #42 Post by **prettyxcool** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:40 pm

Just got back from the Grolsch/LWL screening, we stayed until the bitter end, enjoying the free Grolsch before and after the screening (we needed it!) and the free Dutch Chedder (very more-ish!) What a fabulous evening 5rannoch and I had tonight! Even got chatted up by the barman [spoiler]not sure I should say this, but ssshh, he offered us free tickets for the next screening![/spoiler]

Wow, what an excellent film, interesting, confusing at first, gritty, chaotic, all the worst things in life, the strife, the struggles, it is extremely heavy going, a bit too long but really, really hits you, intense, sad. Superb performances from everyone, especially Javier Bardem. 10/10

Thank you so much to 5rannoch for taking me as her plus one! Lovely to meet up with valda too.

stuartboy · #43 Post by **stuartboy** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:23 am

prettyxcool wrote:Just got back from the Grolsch/LWL screening, we stayed until the bitter end, enjoying the free Grolsch before and after the screening (we needed it!) and the free Dutch Chedder (very more-ish!) What a fabulous evening 5rannoch and I had tonight!

Eek! Again no sign of after show Grolsch in edinburgh - all packed up and gone away by end of film. I must have a word with some one. Lol. Who?

I found this film very intense and heavy going. Very depressing indeed. I struggled through it and could not understand the relevance of the opening scenes - owl and snowy trees - which were also repeated at the end. I also found it hard to keep up with the subtitles - it is often hard to interpret who said what line. I liked that at least the different languages were in different colours. I would find it hard to recommend this film and certainly could not sit through it again.

prettyxcool · #44 Post by **prettyxcool** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:08 am

Yes, some scenes where really harrowing, that's why the beer at the end really helped !

You could try an email to adam@thechurchoflondon.com, that was the contact on their tweets. Good luck!

tarantinoed · #45 Post by **tarantinoed** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:17 am

could not understand the relevance of the opening scenes - owl and snowy trees - which were also repeated at the end.

It's been a few months since I saw the film but I understood the snow, owl and trees scene at the beginning and the end (and particularly the young man there with him) were Uxbal (Bardem) coming to terms with death. The young man was his father (a photo of him was shown later in the film) and it was said that before it dies an owl spits out a hairball etc. While I found this scene at the beginning quite menacing, at the end I felt it comforting - that his father was helping him at the point of death.

valda · #46 Post by **valda** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:17 pm

tarantinoed wrote:
could not understand the relevance of the opening scenes - owl and snowy trees - which were also repeated at the end.
It's been a few months since I saw the film but I understood the snow, owl and trees scene at the beginning and the end (and particularly the young man there with him) were Uxbal (Bardem) coming to terms with death. The young man was his father (a photo of him was shown later in the film) and it was said that before it dies an owl spits out a hairball etc. While I found this scene at the beginning quite menacing, at the end I felt it comforting - that his father was helping him at the point of death.

I felt exactly the same, I thought he was going to be executed or some thing at the beginning. At the end, I thought it was so sweet.

BTW I knew about Owls, I saw it in the Legends of Gahoole

superhero · #47 Post by **superhero** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:30 am

Yes really good performance from Javier Bardem, but thats about it, overly pretentious and indulgent. 5/10

stuartboy · #48 Post by **stuartboy** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:46 am

valda wrote:
BTW I knew about Owls, I saw it in the Legends of Gahoole

Ahhhh. Those owls! Now it all makes sense. Lol

superhero · #49 Post by **superhero** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:45 am

The themes that are dealt with are quite similar to the director's other film, Babel, but he's probably taken some of the criticism on board and try to be less ambitious, however as a film, the different themes don't gel very well, especially when he's dealing with issues of race, sexuality, poverty and corruption

Preston1990 · #50 Post by **Preston1990** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:44 pm

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Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Rubén Ochandiano.

Plot: Biutiful is the intimate and powerful story of Uxbal, a man who finds himself desperately alone, trying to maintain his balance between survival in a marginal neighborhood and safeguarding the future of his young children who are floating aimlessly through life.

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