Things We Lost in the Fire [HD DVD]
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Actor: Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Halle Berry, Hilary Strang, Paula NewsomeBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dreamworks
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DVD Review: Loss
Summary: 4 Stars
Susanne Bier's first American film, "Things We Lost in the Fire" continues her thematic strain of isolation and families in conflict that she started in her Danish films, "Brothers" and the Oscar nominated, "After the Wedding." "TWLITF" stars the enigmatic Benicio Del Toro and the wondrous Halle Berry.
The facility of the Oscar-winning Benecio Del Toro with emotional material, very much in evidence here, is not a surprise. But it is especially satisfying to report that, as widow and mother Audrey Burke, Berry, who has made some unfortunate career choices, does what's easily her best work since winning her Academy Award for 2001's "Monster's Ball."
The tragedy of this film is that Audrey's husband, Brian (David Ducovny) dies and it leaves her and her children at a loss emotionally and psychologically: how will they deal with this? Out of no-where, because up to this point Audrey has avoided contact with him, she invites Brian's friend Jerry Sunborne (Del Toro), her husband's best friend since childhood, who has gone in and out of heroin addiction as long as she's known him, to the funeral.
"I hated you for so many years and now it seems silly," Audrey tells him when he arrives. Deprived of the only person who hadn't given up on him, Jerry is as much at a loss in his life as Audrey is. With nothing in common except the dead man, these two tentatively gravitate toward an emotional détente that might allow each of them to keep living.
Bier's mise en scene is so emotional and so thoughtful and prescient that
Audrey and Jerry's relationship pops with cosmic truth. Here are two people adrift in a morass of guilt, despair and grief which, instead of driving them apart, brings them together despite their reluctance to form a bond with anyone. They both approach their relationship like two sinking ships searching for the lighthouse that will lead them to emotional equilibrium. What they don't know is that this equilibrium lies within themselves first of all and then in their relationship with each other.
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Academy Award winners Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro star in director Susanne Bier?s (the Oscar-nominated "After the Wedding") powerful new drama "Things We Lost in the Fire" Audrey Burke (Berry) is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police: her warm and loving husband Brian (David Duchovny), the father of their two young children, has been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their 11-year marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry Sunborne (Del Toro), a down-and-out addict who has been her husband?s close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband?s death, Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage in the hope that he can help her and her children cope with their sudden loss. Jerry is facing a daily battle to stay off drugs, but in his unexpected role as surrogate parent and friend to Audrey?s son and daughter he finds a core of inner resilience. As Jerry and Audrey navigate grief and denial, their fragile bonds are constantly tested. Working together, however, they discover the strength to move forward.Bestsellers in DVD
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