Bloody Weekend
(1994)
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Bloody Weekend
(1994)
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Neil
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| Dearbhla Molloy | ... |
Therapist
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Danny Cunningham | ... |
Lance
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| Catherine McCormack | ... |
Rose
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Nick Patrick | ... |
Giles
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| Biddy Hodson | ... |
Charlotte
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Mathew Eggleton | ... |
Lionel
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Caleb Lloyd | ... | |
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Joe Gecks | ... |
Brother on Bike
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Bridget Brammall | ... |
Shop Assistant
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Tom Welsh | ... |
Skinhead
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Seven teenagers retreat to a country house for the weekend to make their epic, an impossibly ambitious Celtic fantasy. As the making of the video drifts from playful hilarity to argument, frustrated ambition and accusation, intimate details seep into the script and the gap between fact and fiction closes, foreshadowing later events. When the group decides to lift the mood with an Acid-inspired initiation, secret dreams and fears are revealed, and pent-up emotions released, with all their youthful intensity and passion. Written by L.H. Wong <as9401k56@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
The main thing that drew me to this movie, was the fact that it was directed by Anna Campion, Jane Campion's sister, one of my favourite New Zealand directors. It's a fairly solid effort, but it doesn't live up to her sister's reputation. The story is slow, and there isn't a lot of pay off, but I think that gives it a real life quality, even if some of the scenarios are a little bit hard to swallow.
The acting is solid. There is some beautiful camera work, the problem is that is all there is.
Loaded ambles along, with a couple of peaks, and then it just ends, leaving you feel like you saw half a good movie, that ran out of steam. It's like it has a thriller story, that is played out in a drama format. Maybe the script in someone else's hands might have worked, but it just seemed like there wasn't enough it.