A schizophrenic man, Peter Winter (a great performance by Peter Greene), is released from an institution and goes in search of his young daughter, Nicole. He returns home to find out his mother had put Nicole up for adoption. Another element of the story involves the murder of a young girl, whose body was discovered on the grounds of a hotel where Peter had stayed while making his way home. Detect... read more
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Ignore my rating. I don't really know what the correct rating for Clean, Shaven is. There were times at which I found myself deeply haunted by it and there were other times at which I felt like things were dragging. But my reaction here is definitely more positive than negative, because I can't help but give credit when I finish watching a movie and I tell myself "Well, this is not something you see every day," and that's certainly what I thought when this ended."
the giraffe added this to a list 5 months, 1 week ago
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Watched June 19th - jaytoast's DVD collection -
1st Viewing - Rewatched on June 19th
"Do you know what it's like to see your son deteriorate? - when he was growing up he was a quiet boy, but he was happy, then all of a sudden he changed - I wont have that same thing happen to her." - Mrs. Winter
Llke Spider, Clean Shaven is an unflinching look into the disturbed mind of a schizophrenic and like Spider I had my preconceptions of where the story was going that were blown apart by the ending, "
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Rewatch
Criterion Collection releases have a well-earned reputation for including great special features so, while I'd watched this film on Netflix Instant not so long ago, I was excited to have the real thing in my hands.
The feature-length interview with director Lodge Kerrigan, conducted by Stephen Soderbergh was truly interesting and informative. It offered plenty of satisfying insight into the film itself and the broader artistic sensibilities of the director. And even better is that S"
"First viewing - Feb. 9th
Much like Spider, this film is all about the lead role which is played to perfection by Peter Greene (best known as Zed in Pulp Fiction). I was mesmerized watching Greene's character figure out ways to avoid his own reflection, and some of the ways he chooses to do so wind up reflecting his mental state.
Perhaps even more impressive than Greene's performance, however, is the way sound is used in Clean, Shaven. The variety of sounds used throughout the film help us get"
death shade added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
" January 6th - Clean, Shaven is a minimalist film where Lodge Kerrigan shows a subjective viewpoint of a schizophrenic named Peter. Everything including simple mundane tasks look and feel alien. Peter Greene gives a frightening and unpredictable performance as Peter even if he overdoes it at some points. The sound design even furthers the unsettling feeling by amping up the background noises and at times overwhelming with radio broadcasts of people saying violent and horrific things. We are"
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Even if he does not intend to romanticize, the artist who seeks to inhabit the mind of a madman runs the risk of seeming presumptuous. But Kerrigan avoids pitfalls largely through a flatness of affect, a way of seeing that combines a ferocity of focus with a lack of judgment. It's a testament to the filmmaker's instinctive poise and restraint that Clean, Shaven is unblinking but not voyeurÂistic, poetic but not sentimental, suspenseful but not exploitative, extreme but not sensational. Ker"