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Cold Mountain (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 2003 / Director: Anthony Minghella / Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman ... / DVD ... more
Cold Mountain (DVD) ... released 05 July, 2004 at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Features of the DVD: PAL / Cold Mountain, freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable Civil War love story, offering everything you'd want from a romantic epic--except a resonant emotional core. Everything in this sweeping, Odyssean journey depends on believing in the instant love that ignites during a very brief encounter between genteel, city-bred preacher's daughter Ada (Nicole Kidman) and Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law), who deserts the battlefield to return, weary and wounded, to Ada's inherited farm in the rural town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina. In an epic (but dramatically tenuous) case of absence making hearts grow fonder, Inman endures a treacherous hike fraught with danger (and populated by supporting players including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and others) while the struggling, inexperienced Ada is aided by the high-spirited Ruby (Renée Zellweger), forming a powerful farming partnership that transforms Ada into a strong, lovelorn survivor. The film's episodic structure slightly weakens its emotional impact, and it's fairly obvious that director Anthony Minghella is striving to repeat the prestigious romanticism of his Oscar-winning hit The English Patient. For the most part it works, especially in the dynamic performances of Zellweger and Kidman, and the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is recreated with violent, percussive intensity. Those who admired Frazier's novel may regret some of the changes made in Minghella's adaptation (the ending is particularly altered), but Cold Mountain remains a high-class example of grand, old-fashioned filmmaking, boosted by star power of the highest order. --Jeff Shannon

Newest Review: ... for effect, but I doubt it. What I really liked about this film was that it was trying to show a harsh reality, particularly ... more

 ... for what life was like for women. It reminded me a little of the film True Women, which is another film you might enjoy if you liked this. Ada would not survive if she was unable to stand on her own two feet and carry on without the security of a man by her side. It shows that the women, too, had a battle ahead of them, and without the same upbringing as men, I bet it was just as tough. Acting/Characters Nicole Kidman (The Peacemaker, The Interpreter) was at her best in this film, graceful, well-mannere...more

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sunmeilan
Crowned Review Cold Mountain (DVD): A film for the romantics out there (1439 words)
by - written on 20/04/09 (Very useful, 226 readings)
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Just a short time before going off to fight in the Civil War, Inman meets Ada Monroe, and the two fall in love at first sight. A couple of brief conversations and a lingering kiss later, Inman is gone, leaving Ada in Cold Mountain to write letters to him at every opportunity. Then her father dies, her life takes a change for the worse and she writes to Inman begging him to return to take care of her. Inman eventually gets the letter, and depressed at the state of the war he has been fighting in for months and months, he decides to turn deserter and return to Cold Mountain on foot, some thousand miles away. Along the way, however, he is thwarted at every turn, while back ...  Read the complete review

Praskipark
Crowned Review A Film with Several Layers of Frost and Ice (1037 words)
by - written on 29/03/09 (Very useful, 190 readings)
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Cold Mountain is an epic romance based on the best selling novel written by Charles Frazier. Directed by Anthony Mingella (English Patient), this film tells the compelling tale of a man and a woman who are seperated by war and how their unfounded faith gives them strength to carry on and find each other again. We follow the path of Inman (Jude Law), a young Confederate soldier who escapes from the southern forces to wearily walk his way back home, where he hopes his true love will be expecting him. As he trudges along this path he is confronted by a frightening group of escaping slaves in a field of corn, a wicked and perverted reverend, an evil bordello ...  Read the complete review

JonathanS
Crowned Review Cold Mountain (DVD): Oscar Mountain? (1078 words)
by - written on 22/01/04 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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It's that time of year when thoughts start to turn towards the Oscars with the years last contenders being released by the studios. There is no more aggressive studio at campaigning for Oscar success than Miramax, and this year their hopes are pinned on Cold Mountain, an historical drama based on the book of the same name by Charles Frazier. Directed by Anthony Minghella, previously a winner with The English Patient, and starring Nicole Kidman, another previous winner, it's a film that would seem to have the right pedigree for Oscar success, but which ultimately fails as a work of successful storytelling, despite having many things going for it along the way. ...  Read the complete review

Ayesha-%60
Premium Review A Cold Place for Warm People (1131 words)
by - written on 06/02/10 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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I rented this DVD, having been put off going to the cinema by a friend who suggested it was not worthwhile. To be honest I'm glad I just rented it, it is not the kind of film I'd pay £6 to go and see, at least its not my idea of a night out. However, for a night in it was just about right and worth watching. Story Set during the American Civil War, in a town called Cold Mountain, the film provides a deep insight into the lives of the ordinary people affected by what went on around them. We learn what the war really meant to them, and, as with most wars, the unjustified suffering and losses incurred as a result of war. Whilst the young men ...  Read the complete review

linzeelou
Premium Review Cold Mountain (DVD): Could you survive Cold Mountain? (895 words)
by - written on 07/12/09 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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Cold Mountain is a 2003 romance/ war film and is based on the novel by Charles Frazier. It is rated 18 due to scenes of violence and sex and it is 154 minutes long. Plot In the early 1860's and the Civil War is just about to happen. Inman is already in the middle of the war and we see him reading letters from Ada, the love of his life. As the war gets even more brutal, the men are tired but they get ambushed, leaving Inman in hospital to recover from a neck wound. We then go back to flashbacks of how Inman and Ada met, before the war started and to when Inman had to leave. Ada, is left all alone with her father in her new home until things go ...  Read the complete review

 
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