Heartless
The darker it gets the more you see
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 12, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Ifc Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jim Sturgess, Noel Clarke, Eddie Marsan, Clémence Poésy & Timothy Spall | |
Performer: | Joseph Mawle & Luke Treadaway | |
Directed by | Philip Ridley | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Ridley | |
Composition by | Nick Bicât & David Julyan | |
Director of Photography: | Matt Gray |
Entertainment Reviews:
With erratic success, Heartless tries a number of different veins.. but it's on firmest footing as a macabre comedy.
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Village Voice
Ridley lets the darkness permeate the space and filter into his characters, who are unable to prevent their own hearts from being eaten alive.
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That Shelf
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A highly imaginative if often darkly disturbing work that even at its most seemingly outlandish remains intriguing and involving.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It doesn't go anywhere special or much of anywhere, though it goes there in appreciably icky style.
New York Times
Although it's called HEARTLESS, this compelling psychological horror-thriller contains a tremendous amount of heart. That would be largely thanks to a moving and deeply sensitive lead performance by Jim Sturgess...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"Heartless" is an uneasy mixture of B-movie shocks, social commentary and sentimentality that shows a potent imagination at work.
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New York Post
an ambitious, disorienting film that plays fast and loose as much with its own generic identity (urban horror, social realism, morality drama, black comedy, psychothriller and fairytale allegory) as with its protagonist's meandering sense of reality.
Little White Lies
Product Description:
An alienated fellow enters into a sinister pact that threatens to push him into psychopathic territory in this brutal neo-Faustian thriller from U.K. director Philip Ridley. Jim Sturgess (21) stars as Jamie, a thirtysomething photographer buckling beneath the weight of a stigma: a huge, red, heart-shaped birthmark that masks one half of his face, and has turned him into a social pariah. He inhabits the East End of London, currently racked by crisis -- bands of thugs who rove throughout the streets, spreading violence and terror among the citizenry. As Jamie soon discovers, however, these aren't ordinary hooligans wearing demon masks, but actual demons. The young man packs heat and then considers going to the authorities, but before he can do so, the monsters turn up, attack him, and murder his mother. Then, one of their leaders, Papa B. (Joseph Mawle), approaches Jamie to make a deal: permanent removal of the birthmark in exchange for the performance of some evil deeds. Jamie consents, but has no idea just how vile and cruel those tasks are until he has already signed up. At the time of its release, HEARTLESS was the first feature from Ridley since his 1995 outing THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON.
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