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Людмила написал(а):

Писали здесь же, премьера в России 6 августа! вот и считай

Людмила, это я провтыкала. Прочитала не 6 августа, а 6 июня (оно ж так похоже :) или может быть я так хотела :) ). И так уже обрадовалась. Вот если бы ты не выделила это жирным шрифтом, я бы еще долго оставалась в неведении.

Отредактировано Айрин (2009-06-08 18:06:43)

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Людмила, это я провтыкала. Прочитала не 6 августа, а 6 июня (оно ж так похоже или может быть я так хотела ). И так уже обрадовалась. Вот если бы ты не выделила это жирным шрифтом, я бы еще долго оставалась в неведении.

не хочу вас огорчать, но дату премьеры опять поменяли... :'(  на 5 ноября 2009...это жестоко :(
источник тот же : КиноПоиск.RU

По ссылке  Japan Box Office
June 6–7, 2009  Источник за два дня  сборы фильма "Я прихожу с дождем" составили $638,731 

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По ссылке можно посмотреть новые отрывки из фильма, фрагменты премьеры, интервью и съёмок фильма "Я прихожу с дождем" :cool:

ИСТОЧНИК    http://i032.radikal.ru/0803/c9/c00881cd1f7c.gif

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Людмила написал(а):

не хочу вас огорчать, но дату премьеры опять поменяли...   на 5 ноября 2009...это жестоко

http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/he_and_she/girl_cray2.gif   http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/he_and_she/girl_cray2.gif   http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/he_and_she/girl_cray2.gif
Это очень жестоко!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Они над нами издеваются???????????????

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Людмила написал(а):

не хочу вас огорчать, но дату премьеры опять поменяли...

спокойствие, тлько спокойствие, как завещал великий Карлсон
мы не смотря ни на что его дождемся

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Людмила написал(а):

Здесь отрывок из видео интервью,  Джошевы ответы на некоторые вопросы 
An interview too reel?

На Главной
Промоушн фильма "Я прихожу с дождем" благополучно прошел в Японии и мы можем узнать подробнее об одном из интервью звезд фильма, проводимого в рамках компании.
Джош Хартнетт, Такуя Кимура и Бьюнг-хун Ли по очереди задавали вопросы друг другу.

Такуя Кимура спросил у Бьюнг-хун Ли, как он запоминает свои тексты. Его ответом было то, что он никогда не запоминает тексты своим сердцем, вместо этого он анализирует персонаж, которого он играет, и декорации, которые сами помогают ему выражать свою роль.

Бьюнг-хун Ли был очень серьезным, придумывая хороший вопрос для Джоша, и поэтому он потратил много времени на него, после определенного времени он спросил , когда же последний остепенится.
Джош ответил, что нет, не остепенится до тех пор, пока не найдет себе правильную девушку.  o.O

Когда пришла очередь Джоша задавать вопросы, он спросил у Такуя Кимуры : "Кимура-сан, кто твой самый самый любимый американский актер?" и тот ответил: "Шон Пенн". Джош согласился и сказал, что ему тоже нравится Шон Пенн. Потом он спросил у Бьюнг-хун Ли про любимую американскую звезду в фильме, над которым они работали. Вопрос вызвал смех у всех, потому что ответ на него был настолько очевиден.

В конце интервью интервьюирующий спросил парней, что за крест они несут на своих плечах (подразумевая ответственность/ношу, которую они несут сейчас).

Ли Бюн Хун ответил, что с годами, чем ты старше, тем большая ответственность на тебя ложится.

Ответ Такуя Кимуры был о том, что как член группы SMAP, им нужно поддерживать командный дух.

Ответом Джоша было- как пройти через это интервью не сказав при этом ничего, что в дальнейшем преследовало бы его в его карьере.

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Людмила, спасибо. Интересное интервью.

Людмила написал(а):

Джош ответил, что нет, не остепенится до тех пор, пока не найдет себе правильную девушку.

В принципе, это разумно. Надеюсь, только, что остепенится он не в 80 лет. Интересно, что в его пониманиии "правильная девушка"...

Людмила написал(а):

Потом он спросил у Бьюнг-хун Ли про любимую американскую звезду в фильме, над которым они работали. Вопрос вызвал смех у всех, потому что ответ на него был настолько очевиден.

Юморист :) Люблю мужчин с чувством юмора.

Отредактировано Айрин (2009-06-14 00:49:22)

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Людмила написал(а):

на 5 ноября 2009...это жестоко

злости не хватает.. :(( и так уж ждем ждем сколько.. и опять переносы:(
я вообще понять не могу почему разница мир и РФ в полгода???!!!!!! я фигею :((((

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Людмила написал(а):

на 5 ноября 2009...это жестоко

да, обидно :'( опять еще полгода ждать :disappointed:

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Главное, чтоб его вапще показали! да и в сетке явно появится раньше!

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Gagda написал(а):

да и в сетке явно появится раньше!

на это и надеюсь)))

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Статья о фильме, хорошая,  рейтинг фильма пока тот же: 3 из 5. 
I come with the Rain
Josh Hartnett plays ex LA cop Kline who goes to Hong Kong in search of a Billionaire’s Son named Shita (Takuya Kimura). Helped by a ex colleague, Shawn Yue the two search for Shita and cross paths with gangster Dongpo (Byung Hung Lee) as each become entangled in the search while Shita himself displays extraordinary healing powers to homeless people.
Directed by one of my favorite Directors whose films have a highly effecting nature on me I was excited to see his first English movie on the big screen. Tran Anh Hung had conceived the idea for “I come with the Rain” years ago when he was filming Cyclo.

This isn’t your typical Thriller of the ex cop finding someone lost. It’s a heavy film, visually, it depends heavily on what it shows more than dialogue and the imagery can be brutal in that regard. The first 30 minutes play out pretty normal but as we delve deeper into each character psych the film too becomes more and more erratic. The film jumps back and forth through different events in the characters lives, sometimes a bit confusing as to what is actually taking place in the present, but it gives the film a timeless almost dreamlike quality with no beginning or end. You could say the story is split over three character and their anguish. Hartnett, Kimura and Byung-Hung Lee. The City of Hong Kong is a beautiful setting for a film like this and has a realistic feel since the movie was shot on video.

Hartnett is quite good as the tormented ex Detective as we see his past and present are intertwined. As he gets deeper into his case and search for Shita he becomes obsessed. Leaving behind his 5 star Hotel for a shabby murder scene apartment in order to get inside the mind of Shita and lose himself in the heart of the City. He adorns his walls with the photographs of Shita’s body with cuts all over it, trying to understand.

Byung-hung Lee perhaps had the most interesting role as the Hong Kong gangster whose love runs so deep he would do anything to keep the woman he loves (Played by the Directors beautiful Wife, Tran Nu Yên-Khê). yet for all his love he is still a vicious brute who’s willing to put a bullet in anyone who slander’s his girls name. It’s not mentioned at all in the movie but it might be worth noting that the characters Lili and Dongpo grew up together in the same orphanage and Lili witnessed Dongpo comit murder in his teens.

Some scenes of Takuya don’t work too well. At one stage there is a scene that resembles Passion of the Christ a little too closely, so much so that one might think it was a parody given the film’s setting. I couldn’t watch that scene without immediately thinking of that other movie and it felt a little embarrassing. It doesn’t help that Kimura under plays it. He’s really great in those Gatsby ads though.

In a Tokyo interview Tran said that the casting took a long time but I’m not quite sure I buy that since he cast some well handsome men in this movie who are popular across asia maybe more for their good looks than anything else.

As for the Film’s title Tran had this to say

Q: Regarding the title “I Come With the Rain”,
why is it “Come” ” with the Rain?”

A: Tran Anh Hung
When I wrote the script for the first time ,I had an image that when
Jesus appears, it’s always raining. However, while revising the script,
the rain slipped off some time or other. (laugh) So “the Rain” can be
found only in the title. But for me, rain’s motif inspired me a lot.

For all the symbolism you might come out of the theatre scratching your head as Tran literally nails it to a cross and if this is your first Tran Anh Hung film you might be throwing yourself in the deep end here. For those faint of heart you might get squamish in some scenes that borrow heavily from the works of Irish Painter Francis Bacon.

Tran Anh Hung’s next Film is an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood. I ‘m rather looking forward this as I am a fan of Murakami. I had imagined maybe someone like Wong Kar Wai directing this but I think Tran Anh Hung is a director very capable of doing the material justice. It took 5 years to get permission from Murakami to finally make this movie, lets hope it was worth the wait.

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Людмила написал(а):

рейтинг фильма пока тот же: 3 из 5.

та шо ж такое?!  :angry: не, я буду смотреть и составлять свое впечатление, вон про "Сумерки" тоже разное говорят...  :D

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Людмила написал(а):

Статья о фильме, хорошая,  рейтинг фильма пока тот же: 3 из 5.

Плевать на рейтинг...и на рецензии...
Только своим ощущениям можно верить...Тем более мы стока этого ждём....

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tatie написал(а):

та шо ж такое?!  :angry: не, я буду смотреть и составлять свое впечатление,

тоже не собираюсь делать выводы заранее)))но знаю, для меня участие Джоша в фильме уже +++++))) http://i031.radikal.ru/0803/b6/6394d6c18a2b.gif 

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Только своим ощущениям можно верить...Тем более мы стока этого ждём....

:yep: очень хочу увидеть Джоша в кровище...страдающего...сходящего с ума...сил нет... http://doodoo.ru/smiles/wo/prayer.gif

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Two top stars from Korea and Japan have once again displayed their respective talents in the same movie. Lee Byeong-Heon and Kimura Takuya are appearing together for the second time--after their 2007 Japanese film “Hero”--in “I Come With The Rain.”
Directed by Vietnamese-French director Anh Hung Tran, whose works include “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “Cyclo,” the film is a multinational project starring Josh Hartnett and Elias Koteas in addition to Lee and Kimura. The thriller centers around ex-Los Angeles cop Kline (Josh Hartnett) who travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son (Kimura Takuya) of a Chinese billionaire. Lee plays a role of a mafia boss in Hong Kong.
With trailers released on April 18, it is scheduled to hit theaters in Japan on June 6. A large-scale premiere will be held in the island country, which all the stars will attend.
http://koreanmoviezeed.blogspot.com/200 … ya-in.html

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ВОт тут ещё фото и видео
http://www.filmsactu.com/news-cinema-i- … s-7625.htm

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Ппц, у меня домашний инет появился, наконец-то, но тааакой паршивый, полчаса страница грузится, так и не открылась... Там Джош есть где-то по ссылке хоть? Чтоб я не мучалась  :mad:

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Everydika написал(а):

Ппц,

Извини, что цитирую только несклоняемые, но от таких новостей остается только ругаться :mad:
Лучше бы я не заходила на КиноПоиск  :'( 
премьера (РФ) «Top Film Distribution»  дата премьеры вообще исчезла, на форуме пишут что перенесли опять
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Пойду на сайт Top Film Distribution, искать информацию...

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Извини, что цитирую только несклоняемые, но от таких новостей остается только ругаться Лучше бы я не заходила на КиноПоиск    премьера (РФ) «Top Film Distribution»  дата премьеры вообще исчезла, на форуме пишут что перенесли опять

http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/cray.gif  я проооооооооооооотив!!! ДАЙТЕ мне новый фильм с ним, ХАЧУУУУУ... так, давайте устроим умственный флеш-моб: договоримся на определенное время и день, когда все на минуту задумаются и загадают одно и то же желание про Джоша??? давайте???

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Людмила написал(а):

премьера (РФ) «Top Film Distribution»  дата премьеры вообще исчезла, на форуме пишут что перенесли опять

%-) да, чего уж удивляться... все-равно, скажу вам честно - нам эта премьера в РФ или Украине постольку поскольку, я уверена, что мы это кино найдем в сети и посмотрим задолго до того, как оно появится на экранах кинотеатров (если вообще появится)... не падаем духом, пираты могут преподнести сюрприз в любой день))

tatie написал(а):

договоримся на определенное время и день, когда все на минуту задумаются и загадают одно и то же желание про Джоша??? давайте???

ну раз уж у нас секта, тогда надо и обряды сектантские вводить)))ггг
а еще можно составить "карту желаний", мы вроде собирались)))

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Вот это я понимаю! :cool:

Lee Byeong-Heon made waves in America after his successful debut in Hollywood this summer with the blockbuster "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". But he's also turning heads for his role in "I Come with the Rain", directed by Vietnamese-French filmaker Tran Anh Hung.

The film is generating huge buzz here ahead of its debut in Korea next Thursday at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival in Busan. Movie fans snapped up all the available tickets for the screening within 38 seconds ! after they went on sale.

Tran made his mark on the film industry with "The Scent of Green Papaya", which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, and "Cyclo", which received the Il Leone d'Oro, or the Golden Lion award, at the Venezia Film Festival in 1995.

His latest film features three major stars from three countries: Josh Hartnett from the United States, Takuya Kimura of Japan and Korea's Lee. I Come with the Rain is about a Los Angeles cop named Kline (Hartnett) searching for the son of a Chinese billionaire, Shitao (Kimura). Lee plays the role of Su Dongpo, a cold-blooded Hong Kong gangster who falls madly in love with a woman named Lili, who suddenly goes missing.

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Первый отзыв о фильме с феста в Корее   :)

I Come With the Rain -- Film Review

BUSAN, South Korea -- A vivid opening segment of a vicious beating sets the tone for this noirish thriller about a traumatized ex-cop on a hunt for the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical mogul. Jumping from Los Angeles to the Philippines and Hong Kong, "I Come With the Rain" is a moody, supremely stylistic exercise in sweaty underworld revenge that could have easily teetered over into Orientalism.

It never does, thanks largely to director Tran Ahn Hung's restraint (from heavy exoticizing) and focus on bloody misery and the search for redemption and salvation.

An all star international cast should guarantee "Rain" broad festival play, particularly when combined with Tran's directorial pedigree; his earlier films include the Camera d'Or winner "The Scent of Green Papaya" and the Golden Lion-winning "Cyclo."

There's also a good chance for art house and limited release in urban markets in all corners of the globe.

Two years after killing a gruesome serial murderer in the line of duty, Kline (Josh Hartnett) has given up the police force and works as a private detective. Agreeing to find Shitao (Japanese TV idol Kimura Takuya) in part because of the fat expense account that comes with the gig, he heads off to Asia.

His search for Shitao forces him to cross paths with gangster Su Dongpo (Korean star Lee Byung-hun), who is also looking for Shitao after the latter absconds with his wife Lili (Tran Nu Yen Khe), albeit through much more vicious means. That the murderous Su may be the most well adjusted character in the film is a good indicator as to how morally suspect everyone is, even though his final act of revenge is a doozy.

There is a lurid aspect to "Rain," and Tran -- known for his general classiness -- proves that he's able to wallow in human depravity with the best of them. The aesthetically lush brutal- and biblical-violence reminiscent of "Oldboy" is partnered with some garish, outre images: 9mm bullets aren't traditionally included in foreplay, vagrants aren't normally beaten to death with freshly-shot dogs, shooting victims rarely come back from beyond the grave as Christ-like healers. All these are as languidly shot (in properly lit HD) as the rest of the film.

"Rain" is a textbook example of a film that will live or die on the strength of its cast. As a cop that identified a little too strongly with his quarry, Hartnett is with Kimura in being cast against type. He acquits himself reasonably well, however Kimura ("2046") is at his best when doing the rascally heroic thing on television.

When he tries to act, as he does here, it can backfire on him, but he does manage a quiet intensity as the proverbial lamb trying to work in an urban jungle. Lee is slickly nasty in a less nuanced hybrid of his performances in "A Bittersweet Life" and "The Good, the Bad, the Weird."

Though nearly two hours long, "Rain" never really drags, and Tran somehow manages to keep his religious imagery from dipping into histrionic. It may not be the subtlest of films from 2009, but it's certainly one of the most aggressively ambient.

Pusan International Film Festival -- Gala Presentation

Sales: TF1 International
Production companies: Central Films, Morena Films
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Lee Byung-hun, Kimura Takuya, Tran Nu Yen Khe, Shawn Yue, Elias Koteas
Director: Tran Ahn Hung
Screenwriter: Tran Ahn Hung
Executive producer: Simon Fawcett, Alvaro Longoria, Julie Lebrocquy
Producer: Fernando Sulichin, Jean Cazes, Jean-Pierre Marois
Director of photography: Juan Ruiz-Anchia
Production designer: Benoit Barouh
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Costume designer: Judy Shrewsbury
Editor: Mario Battistel
No rating, 116 minutes

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Этакий микс из обзоров на фильм "Я прихожу с дождем" от  INQUIRER.net
31.10.2009
Mixed reviews for Josh Hartnett starrer shot in RP http://s55.radikal.ru/i149/0911/20/11df9e863744.jpg
LOS ANGELES—The Hollywood Reporter declared “I Come With the Rain,” the Josh Hartnett film partly shot in the Philippines, as a “visually stunning thriller.”

Two other trade publications, however, panned the movie filmed in Mount Diwalwal in Compostela Valley, Mindanao. Shown as a gala presentation selection at the recent Pusan International Film Festival, “I Come With the Rain” features Filipino actress Thea Aquino in a cast that includes Elias Koteas, Korean star Lee Byung-hun, Japanese TV idol Kimura Takuya, Shawn Yue, Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Simon Andreu, Eusebio Poncela and Russ Kingston.

Mount Diwalwal residents were also tapped as extras in the film written and directed by Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese filmmaker whose credits include “The Scent of the Green Papaya” (Camera d’Or in Cannes, 1993) and “Cyclo” (Golden Lion in Venice, 1995).
The Hollywood Reporter’s review by Elizabeth Kerr is very favorable, a complete contrast to the verdicts by Variety and Screen International.

Let’s begin with the good news—with excerpts from Kerr’s review: “A vivid opening segment of a vicious beating sets the tone for this noirish thriller about a traumatized ex-cop on a hunt for the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical mogul. Jumping from Los Angeles to the Philippines and Hong Kong, ‘I Come With the Rain’ is a moody, supremely stylistic exercise in sweaty underworld revenge that could have easily teetered over into Orientalism.

“It never does, thanks largely to director Tran Ahn Hung’s restraint (from heavy exoticizing) and focus on bloody misery and the search for redemption and salvation.

Brutal

“There is a lurid aspect to ‘Rain,’ and Tran—known for his general classiness—proves that he’s able to wallow in human depravity with the best of them. The aesthetically lush brutal—and biblical—violence reminiscent of ‘Oldboy’ is partnered with some garish, outré images: 9mm bullets aren’t traditionally included in foreplay, vagrants aren’t normally beaten to death with freshly-shot dogs, shooting victims rarely come back from beyond the grave as Christ-like healers. All these are as languidly shot (in properly lit HD) as the rest of the film.

“‘Rain’ is a textbook example of a film that will live or die on the strength of its cast. As a cop that identified a little too strongly with his quarry, Hartnett is with Kimura in being cast against type. He acquits himself reasonably well; however, Kimura (‘2046’) is at his best when doing the rascally heroic thing on television. When he tries to act, as he does here, it can backfire on him, but he does manage a quiet intensity as the proverbial lamb trying to work in an urban jungle.

“Though nearly two hours long, ‘Rain’ never really drags, and Tran somehow manages to keep his religious imagery from dipping into histrionic. It may not be the subtlest of films from 2009, but it’s certainly one of the most aggressively ambient.”

Variety’s Derek Elley wrote: “Shot two years ago, largely in the Philippines and Hong Kong, and finally preemed in Japan last summer, the Josh Hartnett starrer ‘I Come With the Rain’ staggers onto the screen looking as bloody and bruised as many of its protags. Frequently incoherent and often repulsively violent drama, centered on an American private investigator on the trail of a wacko gone AWOL in the Far East...

“Pic opens with a sequence of LA cop Kline (Hartnett) hunting down a sick serial killer, Hasford (Elias Koteas), that’s expanded in memory flashes throughout the movie. Cut to two years later, and the still-traumatized Kline, now a PI, is hired by a pharmaceuticals billionaire to find his son, Shitao (Kimura), who’s disappeared in Mindanao, Philippines.

“In Mindanao, Kline is told by Vargas (Eusebio Poncela), an investigator previously hired by the billionaire, that Shitao may now be in Hong Kong. Hotfooting it to Kowloon, Kline looks up cop pal Meng Zi (Shawn Yue) for help.

“Already rife with coincidences, the story line becomes particularly fuzzy as Shitao is shown living in a grass hut where he performs miracles on tortured souls, bleeding from stigmata as he absorbs their pain...

“With all its imagery of physical pain, mental scarring and Christ-like suffering and crucifixion, the pic makes for deeply unpleasant viewing, to little conceivable point ... Second half is almost impossible to follow logically, and not helped by laughable cameos, including Hong Kong thesp Sam Lee as a mad evangelist.

“Coda, which returns to the story of Kline and the crazed Hasford, piles on the sick psycho-horror to numbing effect. Lee steals the movie as the sadistic Su, though it’s a perf the South Korean thesp can almost phone in nowadays. Clean-cut Hartnett simply looks bemused, and Koteas comes close to hamming.”

‘Unique, but incoherent’

Darcy Paquet of Screen Daily weighed in with this review: “Something seems to have gone terribly wrong in the making of ‘I Come with the Rain,’ an undeniably unique but nearly incoherent ... thriller starring Josh Hartnett and a handful of Asian stars. This handsomely produced feature from ... director Tran Anh Hung looks good, but its story rapidly disintegrates after the second reel.

“The film starts off innocuously enough, setting up its story with obvious strokes and weighed down only by some clunky dialogue. But from the time Kline lands in Hong Kong, the plot grows stranger and less coherent with each passing minute. Virtually every character in the film acts in obsessive, unpredictable ways, but the screenplay makes very little effort to provide any motivations for their actions.

“Soon the dialogue begins to take a philosophical turn, with Jesus references piling up around Shitao’s character and a long flashback sequence devoted to the serial killer’s musings on human agony. Some mainstream viewers may be put off by the film’s unusually high levels of violence and gore...

“Hartnett gives it his best shot, but his character has lost most of its credibility by the film’s conclusion. Lee and Kimura also show flashes of charisma which are ultimately lost in the noise.”

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Ещё одна рецензия на фильм, но очень мудреная... с трудом поняла, почему автор, *the writer is an associate professor for cultural studies at Inha University*, не доволен фильмом...  :dontknow:

[Viewpoint] Clueless global hybrid, now showing
Brace yourself for a disconcerting image of Asia and Asians in the movie ‘I Come with the Rain.’

November 09, 2009

As a scholar of global culture, I was intrigued by a recent release, probably still screening in some theaters. The movie sports at least four titles as of the moment, three of which are translations of its English title, “I Come with the Rain.” The cast list also reads like an actors’ assembly convened by the United Nations, complete with that august body’s usual marginalization of women: an American (Josh Hartnett), Japanese (Takuya Kimura), Korean (Lee Byung-hun), Canadian (Elias Koteas), Chinese (Shawn Yue), Spaniard (Eusebio Poncela), token-female Vietnamese (Tran Nu Yen-Khe, the director’s wife), plus a handful of gun-toting Filipinos and a roomful of naked Filipinas presumably standing in for all the other nationalities left unrepresented.

Tran Anh Hung, who wrote as well as directed, had done a few films earlier, mostly set in Vietnam (including “The Scent of Green Papaya,” actually shot in France), and generally well-received by art-film connoisseurs. I Come with the Rain appears to be his bid to acquire hit-maker status, drawing on his ability to interweave a wide array of characters in fascinating Oriental locales. Unfortunately, the attempt misfires so resoundingly that only a marvel greater than what Kimura’s miracle-working character can conjure up will enable the film to achieve wider release elsewhere before it shows up on video and the Internet.

I Come with the Rain isn’t wanting in good intentions, so I found myself rooting for it to take off even after its hopelessly anachronistic climax. The challenge of maintaining exclusivist high-art aesthetics must have clashed with the thriller genre’s requisite of catering to as wide a viewership as possible, and while this may have resulted in an occasional masterpiece - witness Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blowup” or Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” - in this instance what emerged is an indeterminate hybrid comprising several arresting concepts that fail to coalesce in the end.

The movie’s narrative signals its problems from the get-go. After a cleverly misdirected opening, where Kline, a detective, is overpowered and bitten by an angst-ridden serial killer, we flash-forward to a couple of years later, where Kline, now permanently traumatized, is summoned by someone who claims to own the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company.

This man is never seen by Kline or the audience, preferring to convey Kline’s assignment via a menacing lens and a speaker set.

We learn that the CEO’s son, Shitao, has fled to Asia, and Kline has to track him down in his last known whereabouts, an orphanage in Mindanao, Philippines. Upon reaching the place, Kline is informed by another detective that Shitao had been killed by the henchmen of a powerful mine operator, but Kline replies that he has evidence that Shitao has turned up in Hong Kong, where he intends to go next. Why Kline does not fly directly from Los Angeles to the former crown colony is anyone’s guess - I thought at first that the director was preparing to link the U.S. with its neocolonial stronghold, the Philippines, as well as with its war-on-terror campaign on the country’s Muslim minority.

As it turns out, Mindanao’s main function is to provide scenic contrast with the first-world settings of the U.S. and Hong Kong: jungle foliage and fauna, muddy roads, congested slums, disabled expats, Sapphic go-go girls, youthful killing machines, oh my. Far be it for me to espouse political correctness and positive images for any group, but one wonders what a fellow Asian might have in mind when he insists on depicting misery in the third world: just in case the people living there had no idea how underdeveloped their condition is, perhaps?

I Come with the Rain sustains this impressive display of cluelessness upon reaching Hong Kong. The major Asian characters, presumably long-term residents if not natives, speak mostly English, even to one another (Lee Byung-hun valiantly compensates with well-timed outbursts of rage, from all those Toeic review sessions maybe). And if Tran Anh Hung had any symbolic purpose in casting a Korean to play a sadistic Chinese gangster who literally crucifies a supposedly genuine faith healer played by a Japanese - well, these bouts of against-the-grain inspiration are just beyond me.

Tran may have also missed out on the lament of most Hong Kong film scholars - that recent movies made by their own enfants terribles tend to portray a universalized space that is no longer recognizably Hong Kong in character. This is a trend increasingly being manifested in national cinemas that have succeeded in appealing to a global audience, starting with the festival distribution circuit: Filmmakers no longer need to connect with their own mass audiences so long as their output can be supported by a large enough number of fans in the West. The fact that I Come with the Rain isn’t home-grown in Hong Kong points up this problem even more egregiously.

What makes thrillers and horror films ultimately worthy of attention is their willingness to face abjection, an all-too-human condition that more wholesome genres shy away from. I Come with the Rain provides its share of hair-raising situations, but winds up advocating a redemptive ending modeled on the passion of Christ. How Tran ever came to believe that such a resolution (an Asian Messiah, how radical-chic) would complement his too-precious notion of infusing a “low” genre hybrid with high-art values is a lesson on the dangers of intellectual inattention. Apparently the early-Church memo stipulating that salvation was meant for everyone (the secular definition of “Catholic”) missed him by a millennium or two. I Come with the Rain, sure, but I got trapped in the puddle of my own pretension.

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сегодня пока сидела в салоне в одном из женских журналов увидела рекламу фильма :) его все-таки покажут в кинотеатрах!!! ура!  :flag:

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tatie написал(а):

сегодня пока сидела в салоне в одном из женских журналов увидела рекламу фильма  его все-таки покажут в кинотеатрах!!! ура!

УРРРАААА! скорей бы !

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tatie написал(а):

сегодня пока сидела в салоне в одном из женских журналов увидела рекламу фильма :) его все-таки покажут в кинотеатрах!!! ура!

АААААААААААааааа!!!!! где? чья реклама? показывали по какому каналу? когда???????? http://i015.radikal.ru/0803/17/225ee3643c70.gif

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В России или Украине?

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в украинском гламурном журнале, реклама была :) че сразу панику устраивать?  :D


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