Jonathan Glazer is one of the best filmmakers of our time who makes far too few films. It has been almost a decade since the last trip to the screen: In dem disturbing as well as disturbing In the sci-fi thriller Under the Skin, he followed Scarlett Johansson as a murderous alien through desolate landscapes.
His second full-length feature film is no less disturbing and disturbing: After his cinema debut Sexy Beast, Glazer ventured into 2004 with Birth an uncomfortable psychodrama, which caused shocked reactions at its premiere in Venice. It’s one of the best films of the 2000s.
Masterpiece on TV: Jonathan Glazer’s Birth with Nicole Kidman
Birth takes us to contemporary New York and shows us a city that is in wintry wafts of mist. Ten years have passed since Anna (Nicole Kidman) lost her husband. Although she is still concerned about the loss, she accepts the marriage proposal of the wealthy Joseph (Danny Huston).
You can watch the trailer for Birth here:
Birth – Trailer (English) HD
Just then, she meets a 10-year-old boy (Cameron Bright) who introduces himself as Sean and says he’s the reincarnated version of her husband is. Just like everyone else around her, Anna doesn’t want to believe him at first. Gradually, however, she discovers more and more of her husband in the boy.
In Birth, the fog in Central Park gives you goosebumps
The subsequent psychodrama dispenses with lurid effects and major moments of shock. Instead, Glazer joins in masterful precision and calm the relationships among the characters. His film is a slow, thoughtful and depressed stroll through New York.
The images are dark and heavy – and want to be deciphered. Just as the fog lies in Central Park at the beginning, Glazer denies us a clear view of things. Birth is a film that challenges us as viewers, every take to look at closely and let it work. This is the only way to make the complex emotions tangible.
Nicole Kidman’s game is correspondingly nuanced. In Birth she gives one of her best performances. Basically you want don’t miss a single secondbecause even a blink of an eye can set off a tremor in Birth that shakes the city Glazer captures in mesmerizing images to its very foundations.
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