The Air I Breathe DVD (Region 1)

6.4	Listal rating

Manufacturer : THINKFilm
Release date : 20 May 2008
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0014381493924
UPC : 014381493924

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Product DescriptionIn this powerful film four very different people on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. A top-notch cast featuring Forest Whitaker Andy Garcia Kevin Bacon Brendan Fraser Sarah Michelle Gellar and Emile Hirsch unforgettably brings to life the stories of a clairvoyant gangster a rising pop Product Description
In this powerful film four very different people on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. A top-notch cast featuring Forest Whitaker Andy Garcia Kevin Bacon Brendan Fraser Sarah Michelle Gellar and Emile Hirsch unforgettably brings to life the stories of a clairvoyant gangster a rising pop star an unlikely bank robber and a doctor desperate to save the love of his life. Filled with surprising twists and turns this suspenseful action-filled drama employs both brutal violence and aching poetry in a moving exploration of the search for happiness in a gritty urban world.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 014381493924 Manufacturer No: TF4939DVD

Every so often a crime drama with delusions of existential grandeur comes ambling down the pike. Sometimes, as in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, a philosophically-inclined filmmaker strikes cinematic gold. If video director Jieho Lee's erratic debut falls short of that estimable mark, he can't be faulted for lack of ambition. Set in an anonymous urban metropolis and divided into the four pillars of life--happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love--The Air I Breathe means to illustrate Henry Ward Beecher's opening epigram: "No emotion, anymore than a wave, can long retain its own individual form." A mild-mannered stockbroker representing happiness (The Last King of Scotland's Forest Whitaker) kickstarts this disquisition into destiny when he decides to take a risk (all four principals are unnamed). Inspired by a coolly confident client who stands for pleasure (Brendan Fraser), he places an unwieldy bet on a fixed race, attracting the attention of sadistic loan shark Fingers (Andy Garcia, doing his best Al Pacino impression). Fraser's character reports to the latter, who manages sorrowful pop star "Trista" (Sarah Michelle Gellar, last seen in the equally strange Southland Tales). The psychic henchman also looks after his employer's motormouth nephew, Tony (an uncharacteristically unconvincing Emile Hirsch). The lovelorn doctor (Kevin Bacon) who treats the hitman after an injury turns to Trista when his best friend's wife (Julie Delpy) falls ill. Whew. Inconsistent acting and clunky dialogue aside, The Air I Breathe infuses conventional genre thrills with introspection to intermittently engaging effect. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Directed by :

Jieho Lee

Starring :

Forest Whitaker

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Brendan Fraser

Kevin Bacon

Julie Delpy

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Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jun 10 20:38

This movie is about four people whose lives become entangled in deliberate or random ways. The setting is a generic metropolis that never gets named. Seemingly random events that occur in one of the parts can become a major plot twist in one of the later ones. The cast gave surprisingly solid performances for the most part. The only one that seemed flat was Emile Hirsch, surprisingly. Overall, I thought that the movie had the same feel as Sin City. It wasn't as good, but still well worth watching.

Rating : 8/10

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