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	DVD Verdict Review - Metroland
		Metroland finds its central character in a mundane suburban life, and reminisces with him to his wild oat-sowing days as he questions the life he has chosen.
		Metroland doesn't deal with its subject matter in a serious, heavy-handed manner, or make its characters into the somber, melancholy beings that seem to populate dramas.
		Metroland's soundtrack features a range of music, from punk to jazz, and the rear channel is used extensively to expand the music's soundstage.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/metroland.php (848 words)

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	Review: Metroland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Metroland, a 1997 film that debuted at that year's Toronto Film Festival but is only now being distributed in the United States, fails to add much that's new or insightful to this over-familiar subject matter.
		Metroland is about one man's coming to grips with the deflating but inevitable truth that, at one point or another, we almost all become our parents.
		Metroland's plot is a retread of nearly every mid-life crisis movie that has come along in the past three decades.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/metroland.html (835 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adapted by Adrian Hodges and directed by Philip Saville, Metroland focuses on 30-something Chris (Christian Bale) who, in 1977, is living a comfortable existence in a staid community at the far reaches of the London metropolitan line, the same suburbs where he grew up.
		Metroland is a bit rocky at first, but when director Philip Saville finally lets Chris’ memories with Annick play out – along with Marion’s participation – the film becomes a very interesting commentary on his personal decision-making process.
		Perpetually cash poor, Julia is faced with real questions of responsibility after embarking on this life-altering adventure with her daughters, hoping that amidst the conflicts and constant upheavals, she can attain some inner peace.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=52451 (740 words)

	INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: METROLAND (Adele Tan)
		METROLAND urges us to doubt not that the youthful Bohemian aspirations of our youth, at odds with latent bourgeois ideals, will either blow up in our faces or become wistful itches that visit themselves upon our mid-life crises.
		METROLAND's occasionally saber-like lines ("You're not original enough not to," Marion tells Chris when he asks her how she knows he will eventually get married) reflect generations of youths who aspire to esoteric lifestyles, yet find out that their fates are less than extraordinary.
		So, for all those times that we have looked over to the other side of the fence, METROLAND reminds us that we might never cross it, much as we like the view over there and perhaps the best thing is for us to keep to our side of the fence.
	inkpot.com /film/metroland.html (773 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Metroland
		In Metroland, Chris, a middleclass office employee living outside of London, has made this type of choice, and has now reached the stage where he has a pretty good idea of what the rest of his life will be like.
		The view of Metroland from the train is both boring and ominous-mile after mile of conformity, complacency and security.
		Metroland manages to portray the City of Light as it must have seemed to so many like Chris and Toni: the City of Life.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=96558 (944 words)

	Metroland - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, filmakers, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With Toni's interests remaining firmly in punk rock, anti-establishment behavior and casual sex, Chris begins to reminice about the times the two had together during their university days--a time when he shared those interests--and about whether his decision to move on, marry and start a family was the correct decision to make.
		This is due partly to the compelling nature of watching someone's life unfold on the silver screen, and partly because it is something that everyone on earth can relate to, for we have all experienced a period of self-retrospection where we question our own supposed happiness.
		What was particularly interesting about Metroland's script was the way this material could have gone either way in terms of quality: it turned out to be well-conceived on all fronts, but, just as easily, could have also turned out to be a boring, long-winded movie that seemed more interested in preaching than anything else.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Reviews/metroland.shtml (550 words)

	Nando Media Equips Eight Metroland Web Sites With 'Digital Workbench'
		About Metroland (http://www.metroland.com): Metroland is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation, a broadly based information and entertainment company that owns among other properties, The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper; and Harlequin Enterprises, the world's largest publisher of romance fiction.
		In addition to publishing award-winning newspapers, Metroland is among the largest distributors of flyers, circulars, product samples and catalogues in the greater Toronto and south-central Ontario areas, delivering products for most department stores, food supermarkets and major chain retailers as well as hundreds of local retailers.
		Metroland's flyer distribution business has quadrupled from 367 million total pieces delivered in 1987 to more than 1.6 billion in 2000.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-20-2002/0001673097&EDATE= (718 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Metroland at Epinions.com
		Metroland is cliched and has its faults, but Bale and Watson save it with their emotional performances.
		Apparently this is a question that Philip Saville, director of Metroland, did not particularly try to avoid in his screen adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel.
		Chris (the amazing Christian Bale) is a mid-20-something man living in the suburb of London known as Metroland, aptly titled for its connecting railway stations.
	www.epinions.com /content_97056624260 (516 words)

	Association of Alternative Newsweeklies \| Metroland
		Metroland was founded in 1978 as a monthly entertainment guide; a year and a half later it went weekly, continuing to focus primarily on arts, entertainment and lifestyles.
		In September 1986, Metroland reinvented itself as a full-fledged alternative newsweekly, offering incisive news and political reporting and provocative opinion along with the in-depth arts coverage its readers had come to expect each week.
		The paper's mission is to maintain a fiercely independent voice on local, regional and national issues; to provide depth on stories the mainstream media merely gloss over; to enrich readers' understanding and appreciation of arts and culture; to challenge readers to constantly rethink their assumptions about their lives, communities and society as a whole.
	aan.org /gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid:51 (304 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Metroland on DVD
		When they finally break free, Chris travels to Paris where he embarks on a torrid love affair with a French woman, and Toni sets off for the great unknown as he explores the world.
		And when he does, he discovers a shocking state of affairs -- Chris is happily married to Marion (Emily Watson) and living the life they once dreaded.
		"Metroland" has a superb cast which plays their roles in just the right manner.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=5947 (347 words)

	'Metroland' presents refreshingly real vision of marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps it is the crossing of international borders, both in the film and in the making of the film, that allows "Metroland" to make so universal a statement about marriage.
		Americans would call Metroland suburbia, the place young people long to escape, but inevitably return to when they start their own families.
		Unlike so many films, "Metroland" explores the dark and light side of both marriage and the swinging single life.
	web.nmsu.edu /~jearley/metroland.html (552 words)

	'Metroland' (NR)
		The good news is this: Christian Bale and Emily Watson are excellent actors in their portrayal of Chris and Marion, a middle-class British couple whose safe marriage and quiet existence in a suburban London bedroom community (derogatively referred to as "Metroland") is threatened by the reappearance of Chris's wild childhood chum Toni (Lee Ross).
		Based on Julian Barnes's novel, "Metroland" picks up in the middle of the match, at a point in Chris and Marion's relationship where the two seem to have reached stalemate – that is until Toni pops up to rearrange the pieces on the board.
		By way of showing how the situation ever got this bad, the story then flashes back to 1963, when Chris and Toni were rowdy schoolboys with wanderlust in their hearts, vowing to escape Metroland and never return.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/metrolandosullivan.htm (597 words)

	Metroland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But since he spends the whole movie getting laid, and even uptight Marion grudgingly admits she finds him "rather attractive," it may be my fault for not finding him better-looking.
		This is mentioned because, due to the lack of otherwise interesting action in Metroland, the intrepid moviegoer may spend an inordinate amount of time contemplating the actors' physical attributes.
		Underneath that barbed exchange is the heart of Metroland's message, that Toni is feeding the impressionable Chris a dream he isn't equipped to handle, and doesn't really want.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/m/metroland.shtml (733 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Metroland" review
		I just don't see the point of making a movie -- especially a movie as predictable as "Metroland" -- that directs so much of its energy into a strenuous defense of settling down, as if the director were on some kind of defensive crusade.
		"Metroland" is about a happily married, dullfully employed young father (Christian Bale) who is visited by a free-wheeling, bohemian friend from his past (Lee Ross).
		In reaction to this so-called friend's resentful ribbing, he begins to question the decisions that led him from a youthful, sex-mad, boho life in 1960s Paris to where he finds himself now (the 1970s) -- with the wife (Emily Watson), the baby, the steady job, the mortgage and the Volvo station wagon.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/metroland.html (560 words)

	Metroland - Cincinnati.Com
		Metroland treads familiar ground on its way to a comfortable, conventional ending.
		In fact, if it weren’t for a couple of solid performances by a pair of exceptional actors, this movie could be a flat-out bore — sexual athletics notwithstanding.
		Metroland carries no MPAA rating; if it did, it would probably be an NC-17 because of its frank sex scenes and copious casual nudity.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/metroland.html (320 words)

	'Metroland' (NR)
		Chris (Christian Bale) lives in Metroland, as he calls it, the comforting burbs of London, where he's got a son and a beauty of a wife and a prospering career.
		It's a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man. For soon he's lost in an orgy of memory, and he calls up, in all its brittle glory, the endgame of his relationship with Annick (which was the startgame of his relationship with Marion) and the instinctive attraction between them.
		The best thing by far about "Metroland" is that it understands the mating shuffle, that strange dance of passive aggression and aggressive passivity by which opposing sexes probe each other and ultimately, after many centuries of contemplation, couple up, for better or for worse.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/metrolandhunter.htm (685 words)

	The Freedom Trap - Is the grass really greener? Maybe. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon, Metroland, and Among Giants, which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.
		Torn between French free-spiritedness and the gnawing English sense that he ought to set about structuring a life, the 21-year-old Chris drifted--more or less by default--into the Englishwoman's arms.
		Metroland, while poky and schematic, is full of disconcertingly sharp talk between lovers before, during, and after sex.
	slate.msn.com /id/22912 (1594 words)

	BookkooB: Metroland - J Barnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Metroland is a very intimate and enchanting novel written in the first person.
		The reader is drawn into Chris, the narrator's, world at the very outset and from that point on, we are taken on a journey through life, time and age.
		Christopher's transition into adulthood is undertaken in a different Metroland - Paris in 1968.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/2070403386.htm (1078 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Metroland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are a lot of movies about escaping from the middle class, but ``Metroland'' is one of the few about escaping into it.
		``Metroland,'' based on a 1980 novel by Julian Barnes, who became famous after Flaubert's Parrot, watches Chris as he is enticed by temptation and memory.
		The memories are often about the two women he met in Paris that year--the one he married, and the one he didn't.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990416/REVIEWS/904160303/1023 (504 words)

	Metroland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Based on the novel by Julian Barnes, Metroland is a kinder, gentler British rendition of The Ice Storm.
		He's content with his nine-to-five, a family, and a house in the fabled community of his origin.
		The sexually charged undercurrent of Metroland promises something dark, disturbing, and at least provocative, but as the characters reach their defining moments, it's the plot that yields to the ordinary.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/04/22/METROLAND.html (140 words)

	Metroland (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A settled family life seemingly perfect and fine, along comes the diversion: his best friend (male) from 10 years ago, bringing back memories of those carefree artist life of the '60's and being in Paris.
		Here, in this movie, the women (both Marion and Annick) do seem to be more mature in their views of relationship while the young men seem to be still in want of learning and growth in that department of life.
		As the film's tagline goes: "Metroland is a state of mind" -- it doesn't matter where you go.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0119665 (669 words)

	"Metroland' a story of dreams left behind
		While he's doing that, "Metroland" has already beat him to the answer, cutting immediately to Chris giving his Volvo a hearty scrubdown amid a fleet of driveway-bound, chic-mobile washers somewhere in suburban London.
		Based on Julian Barnes' 1980 novel, "Metroland" seesaws between condemnation and approval of Chris' safe and stable suburban life.
		To its rich credit, "Metroland" is a provocative rumination on how relationships are warped by two people's inability to be truthful with each other.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/04/16/WEEKEND4979.dtl (574 words)

	Metroland Movie
		It's 1977, and shaggy-haired thirtysomething Chris (Christian Bale) has a lovely wife (Emily Watson) and baby, a solid office job, and a nice house in the London suburb of Metroland.
		Life is good, until the surprise arrival of old chum Toni (Lee Ross), whom Chris has not seen for 10 years and who was his accomplice in teenage shenanigans and heady visions of a bohemian life abroad.
		Chris is a married thirty-something living in a nice part of town and has a stable job.
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/metroland/B0000648YK (698 words)

	Amazon.com: Metroland (1999): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Metroland, based on Julian Barnes's first novel, is a tale of midlife, middle-class malaise reminiscent of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm.
		"Metroland," at any rate, is positively worth scoping out.
		The rest of the cast is superb - from the effervescent Elsa Zylberstein to the grumpy Lee Ross - METROLAND is a must see for Baleheads and intelligent drama.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000648YK?v=glance (1517 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Metroland: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Look out for the very funny scene where all the residents of the street are outside washing their cars at the same time, as if by some sort of unspoken agreement.
		Chris contemplates sex with other women (and the consequences) and the memories of an amorous relationship with a sexy French girl are brought back to him by the discovery of some old photographs.
		But comes to realise that his life in Metroland is actually OK, and really he is happy with his lot.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007855X (598 words)

	DVD : Metroland
		Christian Bale stars in "Metroland" as Chris, the early-middle-aged British suburbanite who is suddenly forced to dredge up all his bohemian, idealistic questionings from his early twenties when his old poet-buddy Tony (played by Phillip Saville) shows up.
		This is a set of occurences that many people can relate to, things that strike a real chord.
		Christian Bale, oft cited as one of the biggest stars on the Internet, demonstrates why with an incredible range portraying Chris Lloyd at ages 17, 21 and 35.
	www.weddingdaykeepers.com /ItemId/B00009MEJC (814 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Metroland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Based on British scribe Julian Barnes' 1980 debut novel about the dreams and disillusionment of two school chums edging into adulthood in London suburbia, Philip Saville's film comes a little too late to escape a sense of deja vu in its portrait of the 1960s and '70s.
		But this comedy-drama is sexy and entertaining nonetheless, and should land some limited theatrical dates before settling into its natural niche on small screens.
		Disruption comes along --- raising conflicts from both the past and present --- with the return of boyhood chum Toni (Lee Ross), with whom Chris once shared the dream of fleeing slow suburban death and a banker's job to live in bohemian splendor in Paris.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117329438?categoryid=31&cs=1 (689 words)

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