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| | Amazon.ca: Absolute Beginners: DVD: Julien Temple,Robert Austin,Steven Berkoff,Lionel Blair,Robbie Coltrane,Jess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Julien Temple's wildly stylized musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel is a dazzling blend of music, dance, and visual effects, reminiscent of a two-hour video in the best sense. |
 | | As it could be only in Temple's fantasy world, jazz is its lingua franca, with a coruscating patchwork score by the venerable Gil Evans that samples the music of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and other luminaries of the period. |
 | | Given the limitations of O'Connell, Kensit, and the thin script, the film lags when the music stops and they're required to act, but most of the time the director uses them virtually as animatronic figures reacting in the simplest manner to the spectacle constantly spinning about them. |
| www.amazon.ca /Absolute-Beginners-Julien-Temple/dp/B000089737 (1619 words) |
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