The Savages
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Canada DVD detailsActor: Guy Boyd, Maddie Corman, Michael Higgins, Peter Frechette, Philip BoscoBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 113 minutes Published: 2008-04-01 DVD Release Date: 2008-04-22 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Twentieth Century Fox DVD Reviews of The SavagesDVD Review: Aims for insight, settles for middlebrow
A slovenly Brecht scholar and his sorta-playwright sister watch their estranged father die in Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages," which never quite decides if it'd like to be a satire, Bergman-style claustrodrama or one of those high-end, visually static art pictures that might as well be performed on a stage. And for good reason - Jenkins, like a lot of her gifted contemporaries, is not aspiring to be Lars Von Trier; rather, she's merely a bright, literate filmmaker cobbling together experiences, jokes and observations into something resembling a loose plot, filmed in whatever style suits her mood that day. As a coherent vision, it isn't; it's really a blog of, oh, Wonkette quality, as emotions, dialogue and character arcs change briskly, presumably according to the quality of one's donut that morning, or the intensity of conversation the night before. The ending of "The Savages" is surprisingly foolish. Sugary even. Not merely unearned, it seems like A Life Lesson Learned. It's soft-core Tama Janowitz turned "One True Thing." C'mon now. You feel like taking a few names in vain.
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