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colin firth does some of the best acting in years. it might be something to do with the water. out of colin. fascinating. so it does not quite reach the film you are expecting? it is a film of two halves. david thewlis is good. rachel weisz does not have much to do apart from answer the phone and look worried a lot. colin firth is good but then the film gets bogged down in its own mysteries but they are true mysteries. no one knows what happened in this movie. it drifts rather to a climax, to use a nautical phrase. we will not give anything away. the shape of water, this is a curious film and i mean this in a good way. i enjoyed it but you do get to the end and think, i am not sure what it is about. it is about sally hawkins who plays a mute cleaner called elisa and she has a job in an american underground nuclear facility which i think peppered the us in the cold war in the ‘50s and ‘60s. a creature is brought in rather like the roswell incident. they bring it in, in a tank, to do experiments. they suspect it can help them defeat the russians somehow and win the space race. it
colin firth does some of the best acting in years. it might be something to do with the water. out of colin. fascinating. so it does not quite reach the film you are expecting? it is a film of two halves. david thewlis is good. rachel weisz does not have much to do apart from answer the phone and look worried a lot. colin firth is good but then the film gets bogged down in its own mysteries but they are true mysteries. no one knows what happened in this movie. it drifts rather to a climax, to...
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the mercy stars colin firth.l those years ago him emerging from the lake wet in pride and prejudice. in this one he gets a right old soaking. he plays donald crowhurst, an eccentric from devon. he invented his old boat and is about to enter a round the world yacht race. he decides to do it on his own, although he has a happy marriage with rachel weisz and kids and he decides to do this in an ealing—esque spirit of the little man taking on the world. so he's inventing it and getting sponsorship from a local car dealer played by ken stott and getting sponsorship from tinned soup firms and rum firms, and then he sets sail up off on his race and it becomes a totally different movie. it becomes profound and moving and mystical and perplexing. why is this man taking on this challenge? and then, i mean, it's a true life tale so i do not want to tell people what happens, even though they can look it up and find out, but what happens is extremely strange. the film struggles to take that on board. meanwhile, colin firth do
the mercy stars colin firth.l those years ago him emerging from the lake wet in pride and prejudice. in this one he gets a right old soaking. he plays donald crowhurst, an eccentric from devon. he invented his old boat and is about to enter a round the world yacht race. he decides to do it on his own, although he has a happy marriage with rachel weisz and kids and he decides to do this in an ealing—esque spirit of the little man taking on the world. so he's inventing it and getting...
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the mercy stars colin firth.et in pride and prejudice. in this one he gets a right old soaking. he plays donald crowhurst, an eccentric from devon. he invented his old boat and is about to enter a round the world yacht race. he decides to do it on his own, although he has a happy marriage with rachel weisz and kids and he decides to do this in an ealing—esque spirit of the little man taking on the world. so he's inventing it and getting sponsorship from a local car dealer played by ken stott and getting sponsorship from tinned soup firms and rum firms, and then he sets sail up off on his race and it becomes a totally different movie. it becomes profound and moving and mystical and perplexing. why is this man taking on this challenge? and then, i mean, it's a true life tale so i do not want to tell people what happens, even though they can look it up and find out, but what happens is extremely strange. the film struggles to take that on board. meanwhile, colin firth does some of the best acting in years. he's real
the mercy stars colin firth.et in pride and prejudice. in this one he gets a right old soaking. he plays donald crowhurst, an eccentric from devon. he invented his old boat and is about to enter a round the world yacht race. he decides to do it on his own, although he has a happy marriage with rachel weisz and kids and he decides to do this in an ealing—esque spirit of the little man taking on the world. so he's inventing it and getting sponsorship from a local car dealer played by ken stott...
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we go set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in an around the worldcy. and there's more water, as sally hawkins stars in guillermo del toro's fishy fairy tale the shape of water, and an unlikely relationship with an aquatic alien.
we go set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in an around the worldcy. and there's more water, as sally hawkins stars in guillermo del toro's fishy fairy tale the shape of water, and an unlikely relationship with an aquatic alien.
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we set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in an around the world, and an unlikely relationship with an aquatic alien.
we set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in an around the world, and an unlikely relationship with an aquatic alien.
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we set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in around the
we set sail on the oceans with colin firth single—handedly taking on the world in around the