Southland Tales (2006)
Genre: Comedy / Scifi
Duration: 144 minuten / 160 minuten (Cannes Film Festival 2006)
Country:
United States / Germany / France
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Stars: Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dwayne Johnson
IMDb score:
5,3 (42.128)
Releasedate: 14 November 2007
Southland Tales plot
"Have a nice apocalypse."
In 2008, Los Angeles experienced a three-day heat wave that culminated in a huge 4th of July celebration. We follow the lives of three people. First up is Boxer Santaros, an actor best known for action movies who suffers from amnesia. Second, there is Krysta Now, a pornographic actress who is working on her own television show. And lastly, there's Roland Taverner, a cop who's kind of screwing himself up.
Actors and actresses
Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane
Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner
Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now
Private Pilot Abilene
Madeline Frost-Santaros
Fortunio Balducci
Bart Bookman
Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
Shoshana Kapowski
Serpentine
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Stimulated by the ranking in the top 1000, version 2019, I was curious about this film. He didn't bring me what I expected. It is clear that Richard Kelly wanted to create a spectacular spectacle. He has only partially succeeded in this. The film is spectacular from time to time. In terms of story, however, it is a messy mess that I can't do anything with. So I don't understand the high ranking in the top 1000.
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flaphead
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- 852 messages
- 982 votes
Seen a long time ago and then I really couldn't describe or rate it properly, so it ended up in the "revisit" pile. That took so long that I couldn't remember anything about it except for the Killers-Timberlake scene. But actually it hasn't changed much since the review...it's a genuine mindfuck and I'm still not quite sure what I was looking at.
The condition for enjoying the film to some extent is not to take it too seriously. In principle, the film doesn't do that itself (including with an anti-cast), and that's a plus. Not that it's an assembly line of hilarity, but there's a lot of little winks and subtle humor in it, which worked fine for me. The offbeat atmosphere and ditto characters are nice. A special approach with the many on-screen menus and TV images, which visually look fine (which cannot be said of all graphics, but anyway). We just take the sfici starting point.
But above all, Kelly makes it unnecessarily complicated/megalomaniac/exaggerated, whatever you want to call it. Just a bit too much for his work in this case, although the artistic intention is clear. At the bottom of the line for the length fine entertaining, but it is really a crazy print.
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