navbar-moviesnavbar-tvnavbar-musicnavbar-books

movie-reviews-header

Planet Of Snail

Attention: open in a new window. PDFPrintE-mail

Movies - Movie Reviews

 

South Korean Young-Chan is the ‘snail’ of Yi Seung-jun’s prize-winning documentary.

Deaf and blind, he’s reliant on his tactile senses, using finger-tapping to communicate.

His wife Soon-ho has a debilitating spinal problem, so what emerges is a touching study (in more ways than one) of the trials, terrors and triumphs of living with physical disability.

Never patronising nor begging for sympathy, it attempts to show how this couple experience the world, from the sensual delights of walking along a seashore to the very real ordeal of changing a light bulb.

Shame the pace is so snail-like.

Planet Of Snail News and Features



Source: Total Film

Read Full Article

Quote this article on your site

To create link towards this article on your website,
copy and paste the text below in your page.




Preview :

Planet Of Snail
  South Korean Young-Chan is the ‘snail’ of Yi Seung-jun’s prize-winning documentary. Deaf and blind, he’s reliant on his tactile senses, using finger-tapping to...

© 2013 - Screen Rave



- MOVIE REVIEWS

The Girl
 Poor Toby Jones. Every time he gets a plum part, something comes along to overshadow it.First there was Dobby the H...
Everyday
 One-man UK film industry Michael Winterbottom continues his genre hopping with this gentle kitchen-sink experiment....
V/H/S
 The problem with portmanteau films such as New York Stories (Coppola and co) and Four Rooms (Tarantino et al) is th...
McCullin
 The subject of this powerful documentary, Don McCullin, is uncomfortable being defined as a war photographer, even ...
Grabbers
 A midnight movie with matinee charms, Jon Wright’s genial Irish creature feature proved a crowd-pleaser in th...
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
 You don't need to be a foodie to appreciate this charming documentary, which delves in to the life and work of Toky...
Monsters, Inc. 3D
 Pixar's latest 3D release seems a cruel joke at the expense of Mike Wazowski, the walking peeper lacking the second...
Repulsion
 Roman Polanski's first english language film made a hell of an entrance; so much so, had he fallen under a bus the ...
Chinatown
 “Forget it, Jake it's Chinatown!” The most memorable sign-off ever, right? Wrong.Roman Polanski&rs...
American Mary
Rape-revenge is the most morally dubious of genres, often made by those more interested in filming the former than dealin...
Jack Reacher
 It can be exhilarating to watch when an actor finds a director they click with.The moment Tom Cruise strides into J...
The Impossible
At a time when horror movies had turned to schlock, Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (2007) brought emotional ca...
Quartet
The respective ages of Quartet’s leads (72, 69, 75, 77…) reads like a game of geriatric bingo.But then their...
Les Misérables
Known in luvvie circles as The Glums, Les Misérables has been seen by so many people since its 1985 London premier...
Safety Not Guaranteed
 The past has never seemed so inviting as it does in Colin Trevorrow’s DIY time-travel romance.Like a low-key ...
Midnight's Children
So often dubbed “unfilmable”, Salman Rushdie’s 1980 Booker-winning novel is bravely taken on by directo...
Code Name: Geronimo
 Racing Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty to the screen, this death-of-Bin Laden docudrama courted controversy when...
Neil Young Journeys
 When soft nostalgia is the norm for many ageing rockers, Neil Young’s doggedness is an example to cherish.Jon...
So Undercover
You know something really bad has happened when the FBI are forced to call in Miley Cyrus.Leaving behind her life as a to...
Sexual Chronicles Of A French Family
Pascal Arnold and Jen-Marc Barr’s film opens with a teenage girl masturbating in close-up. But that is as raunchy a...
Boxing Day
 Bernard Rose follows Ivansxtc and The Kreutzer Sonata with another lo-fi Tolstoy update, based on the short story M...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The year 2012: a good one for archers, Michael Fassbender and swearing bears. Fantasy movies, not so much. Wrath Of ...
Baraka
 A sleepy monkey nodding off segues into a solar eclipse – no, this isn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey the rema...
Dead Europe
Adapted from a 2005 novel by controversial Aussie author Christos Tsiolkas, Tony Krawitz’s vivid travelogue follows...
False Trail
 A belated sequel to one of Sweden’s biggest box-office hits (1996’s Jagärna), this glum slice of N...
Tinkerbell And The Secret Of The Wings
 Sieve through the fairy dust and there are some surprisingly hefty themes at play in Disney’s latest Tinker &...

- MOVIE NEWS

'Pacific Rim' TV Spot and Banner: Idris Elba Rallies the Troops
The second TV spot for Pacific Rim is thirty-three seconds of bombastic delights, from the slashing of huge Kaiju claws t...
Godzilla - Images - Village Under Quarantine
Gareth Edwards is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont, and Dave Callaham. Legendary’...
'The Kings of Summer' Red Band Trailer: Why Live When You Can Rule?
The red band trailer for The Kings of Summer isn't one of those that trailers that use the red band to showcase breasts, ...
B.O. Roundup, May 24-26: 'Furious 6' Leaves 'Hangover' in the Dust
It's Memorial Day weekend, and Americans commemorated those U.S. military servicemen and women who've lost their live...
First Trailer for 'Don Jon,' Written and Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The first trailer for Don Jon has strutted its way online, and this first look indicates that not only is Joseph Gordon-L...
'The Lone Ranger' Featurette: Armie Hammer at Such Great Heights
Like any crazy expensive summer movie, The Lone Ranger will undoubtedly include more than its fair share of big v...
Warner Brother’s action-thriller Getaway, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez
It's coming, Get In, Get Out, Getaway ... Warner Brother’s exciting new blockbuster film, the action-thriller Getaway, ...
'Pacific Rim' Featurette: Designing Jaegers
Guillermo del Toro is a famously loquacious fellow, and even in a Pacific Rim featurette chock full of hugely hug...
'Man of Steel' Sequel Moving Ahead Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
After years of crying on Batman's shoulder while Marvel successfully built its cinematic superhero empire, Warner Bro...
Barmageddon Begins: A Pair of 'The World's End' Posters
How's this for a bit of fried gold to kick off your Tuesday?Focus Features has unveiled a new domestic one sheet for The ...
Citywide Devastation: This 'World War Z' Poster Looks Familiar
Yo, where the zombies at?A new poster for World War Z is making the rounds online thanks to Paramount Pictures.  This la...
God of Thunder and Dark Elves Go to War in 'Thor: The Dark World' Images
Thor: The Dark World, the second movie of Marvel Studios' Phase 2, hits theaters in less than six months.  It's never to...
1stayconnectedtwitterfacebookrssfeedmobisitemap


Fandango Logo

navbar-moviesnavbar-tvnavbar-musicnavbar-books