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 Hideous Kinky (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: Gillies MacKinnon / Actors: Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui ... / DVD ... more  Hideous Kinky (DVD) ... released 29 April, 2002 at Cinema Club / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film-script places Julia centre-stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as "the annihilation of the ego". Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the colour and cacophony of the market-place to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation. On the DVD: Hideous Kinky is presented in widescreen 16:9 with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. Additional features are disappointing minimal. As well as the usual theatrical trailer, there are brief interviews with the main players (though no marks for imagination as they're all asked the same questions) and approximately eight minutes of behind-the-scenes footage. There are no subtitles. --Harriet SmithNewest Review: ... of a hippie mother, who drags her along to every single place she goes. And at times it even came over as if Bea thought she ... more ... had to play some kind of a mother because she, at times, thinks her mother is not all that good at being a mother for her or her younger sister. Which also shows the strength that Bea has, for at times taking over that role, to keep an eye over her younger sister at all time, when possible. The mother, called Mum, who is also nameless, as the youngest sister, is the one, who takes her two children al
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Format: audiobook on cassette, Publisher: CSA WORD, ISBN: 1901768
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Hideous Kinky (DVD): Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (review on the book) (2570 words)
by FeCapri82 - written on 03.02.03 (Very useful, 448 readings)
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Here I place my book report on Hideous Kinky as I handed it in, in my English class. I got an 8 out of 10. Seeing this was my first bookreport I ever wrote for school, this pleased my very much. ......................... Book Report written by: Sheyna R M Ubjaan H i d e o u s K i n k y Hideous Kinky is written by Esther Freud. Esther was born in 1963 in London. Hideous Kinky was first published in 1992. Type of book Hideous Kinky is a novel. And can also be seen as a travel report. Most important character in the story The ...
by RAPIDO - written on 28.05.01
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A waste of time and money - Advantages: Location - Disadvantages: No plot, Too long, Boring as hell
