Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed

[Tammy]

I'm trying to figure out how I missed this thread!  Read the first 3 pages, was in love! Have to catch up with the rest.

[oilgun]

Since we've been talking about Ben Wishaw on another thread, I thought I'd put in a plug here for Perfume: The Story of a Murder. It was one of my favourite movies last year but most people I know have never even heard of it.  It was beautiful, disturbing and it made me fall I love with Ben...Although a huge hit in Europe it was really underrated in North America.

[ingmarnicebbmt]

Well, I did PiMP a lot back then, so they tell me!

Tmi, but I sympathize with the idea...

 

[MsMercury]

I haven't gone through and read all the pages of this yet so i'm sorry if this has been mentioned but I'd like to add Hard Candy to the list. It's about a mature 14 year old (Ellen Page) that meets a photographer (Patrick Wilson) on the internet. They eventually agree to meet and suspecting he's a pedophile, she goes to his home and tries to expose him.  The movie can be very disturbing but the dialogue between the two throughout the movie is great. The psychological torture she puts this man through is mindblowing. Especially for a 14 year old girl. By the end of the film you actually start to feel sorry for the guy. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.  Although there are some scenes that may make some men very queasy.
Teri

[Desecra]

Little Red Riding Hood gets the wolf - that was a disturbing film.   One thing that got me (don't want to give away too much of the story) was that there seemed to be no sense of degree - flirting with a slightly underage person was seen as as evil as raping and/or murdering them.   I wasn't sure if that was actually the point being made - the whole public hysteria over paedophilia where teenage love is mixed up in the consciousness with violent assaults on children, while at the same time images of immature women are promoted as sexual.  (The guy was a photographer). 

I suppose it makes an interesting twist that the child-like Ellen Page was actually an adult (I think) - there wouldn't have been issue with the guy chatting her up if it was real life. 

[oilgun]

Little Red Riding Hood gets the wolf - that was a disturbing film.   One thing that got me (don't want to give away too much of the story) was that there seemed to be no sense of degree - flirting with a slightly underage person was seen as as evil as raping and/or murdering them.   I wasn't sure if that was actually the point being made - the whole public hysteria over paedophilia where teenage love is mixed up in the consciousness with violent assaults on children, while at the same time images of immature women are promoted as sexual.  (The guy was a photographer). 

I suppose it makes an interesting twist that the child-like Ellen Page was actually an adult (I think) - there wouldn't have been issue with the guy chatting her up if it was real life. 

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I felt the same way, Desecra.  As a man, that's what made me feel queasy!  For one thing I don't think that being attracted to teens is classified as paedophelia, so if they use that term in the film, it just clouds the issue.  I personally think the film is a failure because it makes you feel sorry for the guy and then it ends up that he deserves everything he gets turning it into a standard revenge film.  Talk about a let-down!  I think it would have been way more interesting, and maybe even subversive, if the victim turned out to be a just a harmless lecher.  The performances are good though, I love that Patrick Wilson.

[dback]

Pedophilia is children, pederasty is teenagers.  She, however, looked young enough that it was borderline pedophilia.  And either way, still not appropriate.

[Hasse]

I know these two may not qualify as overlooked films as they both won several awards. But most people I talk to have never heard of them and I love them both, they are masterpieces imo.

"Cinema Paradiso" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/

"A Room With A View"  http://imdb.com/title/tt0091867/

[Marz]

'The Station Agent' (2003)

[Desecra]

I'm going to add En Kärlekshistoria after having it recommended on another thread.   Maybe the rest of the world didn't miss it, but I did! 

[Marz]

i thought id add 'the station agent' as ive put it on the just watched thread and i don't think many people have seen it and i think they should

[MsMercury]

Somewhere In Time. It didn't do well at the box office but it has it's own "cult" following. In fact, there is a yearly gathering on the island at the hotel where the movie was shot. They have a SIT weekend. It's such a beautiful place I'd love to go on one of those weekends.

[magicmountain]

The Story of a Sign - Cannes Short Film entry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9eUBVpL0ZU

[dback]

i thought id add 'the station agent' as ive put it on the just watched thread and i don't think many people have seen it and i think they should

Oh, I love love love LOVE "The Station Agent."  That was the movie that really put Peter Dinklage on the map for me.  (His role in "Living in Oblivion" didn't scratch the surface of his talent.)  Everything about it is sublime.  Along with "Under the Tuscan Sun," it's one of my favorite feel-good movies.

[Marz]

i know he was amazing in that film!