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Directed By
Amy Redford
Written By:
Amos Poe, Gillian Horvat
Cast:
Isaach de Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Ashlie Atkinson, Chris Bauer, Saffron Burrows, Janeane Garofalo, Reg Rogers, Adam Trese, David Wain, Virginia Wing, Mark A. Keeton, Richard Short, Lori Tan Chinn, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Lawrence Ballard, Joel Cannon, William Leroy, Sonia Manzano, Owen McCarthy, John Melville, Ben Toro, Mia Kucan, Amitesh Manchanda
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The Guitar (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
February 16th, 2009
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I wasn't quite sure what to make of this movie, a film that first comes off as deeply depressing about a woman who loses her job, her boyfriend and potentially her life (within two months) to cancer of the throat. Saffron Burrows looks to be deathly ill in the beginning of the movie and you start to think that you're going to suffer through her slow and agonizing demise. This is the starting tone.
The the movie tries to slip into a hippie spirit, grabbing onto a couple fleeting seconds of greatness before diving into the pool of the expected. Burrows' character starts maxing out her credit cards, eating the foods she never ate before, buying all the things that she never indulged in before, all the while thinking back to her childhood and how evil her parents were for not overindulging her, and screwing the UPS guy and the pizza delivery girl.
By the end of the movie I wasn't as interested in it, even if the character finds life instead of terminal illness. I didn't really care as much about the living character as I did about the one who was facing death. While the character herself cared more about the one dying as well, forgetting time and the possibility that she might live.
This might be an uplifting flick for those who have dealt with cancer, but something in the movie trivialized it for me. It's richly detailed in look and sound and Burrows is mesmerizingly gorgeous as always, but there's too many flat notes to overlook completely.
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