Reviews

The film took you on the journey walking with these 3 on a personal trip from the end of the south to the end of north of Britain which took them 3 months of hardcore experiences, away from the comfort of homes and indoor life. It leads to a sincere conclusion as one of the men Christy Tattershall put it, the end is just the end, the confirmation that the individual moment and path of each day are the answers of the journey. 9 out 10 of a film, it made you falling in love with Ezra and understand his music with a more personal connection.

The landscape of the UK is another main character especially Scotland, the generosity of the land opens up his music, one could feel the spirit of his latest album, Gold Rush baby, which is not about the western landscape in the US but the open space in between a person's mind and one's the connection with the land.

One has to allow the scenes and stories come to you, allow yourself to sit back, drink-in the art of cinema and observe just like Fabietto (main character) does in the film with him; to grow, to learn about life as it unfolds, to remember as events and history happens, to search way out and get lost in tragic traumas, and to accept what's happened, to experience and to be.... The Hand of God is a child of director's life, a child of his decades of mastery in cinema, a child of his own childhood; it is honest, raw, sincere, it is tender, forgiven, kind, sad also and, it is life itself.

One of his best films to date.

Thanks god for Simon Callow! His acclaimed one-man adaptation of the Charles Dickens is a gift to us all; the conceptual art direction bring viewers to our deepest imagination.

this is a movie filled up with event and facts but no characters, no detail on characters' world, they are acting on the surface, the script is the problem, it should be worked into textures and layers of these colourful characters rather than just covered them with events and what's happen,

they could edit some scenes out which director just show what's happen but not take them further to a better storytelling; stories happened to build the characters so we viewers can sympathize with them. You don't feel for any of the characters here. it's such a shame. this movie has no angle to this special group of people.....

All the emotion is not quite there, never gets to the point and ends at the surfaces. the film wasted these casting since they can do more than what's in the film. We all know how well they can act for such a colourful Raymond's world.

the thing work for this movie, I guess is the layers of each characters, a wonderful writing on almost each character, from the street Big issue seller to the leading roles, all were given a good depth of the investment. The supporting characters are there for its purpose and because of that, you can see the strong structure in script. the layers of each character make this "surreal" world believable otherwise, it is hard to watch for the plots and some of the cliché.

other plus is the well casting and lovely performance from all the casts, though you can tell the directer is trying to set up the tone and style like quentin Tarantino but fail to have the edge of it BUT a promising start for his own style to come. a bit low-rated, so I give 7 out of 10 in hope to balance other way-low ratings.

for a person who never have special feeling toward Catherine Zeta-Jones, this piece of work of her playing a middle aged mother is truly the best one from her career as far as I believe. Justin Bartha is also the main reason makes this story believable. one of the great example of how right casts can push a B level of the production, script and its director to even possibly work. there are some good moments but most of the time one just so much hope the director can go deeper and build on characters in a much more personal angles, sadly he did't. without these two main actors, the movie would be a 4-5 out of 10 piece of work.

Love the feeling for being an insider, follow the camera I am like there in Karl's life, what things he loves in life, how much he loves reading, how hard he works, reads, thinks, creates almost in any corner in his living, you are like going with him to different cities, love his passion in making, in life, you can truly understand his solitary life is a gift and love the ease he has in his moves yet profoundly...though the film is poorly made and I wondering why Karl Lagerfeld would give Rodolphe the job to do his documentary, since there are tons of talents could do much better than this one, but,on the other hand, as you get to know Karl for real...it is not hard to know why, I guess he is a very real and easy person, he might take this kind of depth of the film fine, you would still know he had a lot to say in life and he is not hiding any words from you if you just watch with a sensitive eyes, and an open mind.

I was very keen to share the tense and love between Nicole's character and her son. That is one part that most comments here didn't talk about. I might highlight it here with my notice. One scene that the little boy smiled to her before she walked him to school and later it caught her to feel so emotional to think about that, Nicole gave an A+ act in this scene, it hurts when I see her cried. The drive in her character is not only how smart a doctor she is in the film, it's more the mother kind of power to me. It's beautiful to see that element in this si-fi film, isn't it? Nicole now is really in her high peak of acting career, she still tried her best to take all the different kind of characters, I love her for doing so. It feeds me great deal as a movie goer, to see a wonderful talent like her making the film with her standard. Even in this light touch of Hollywood film, with her presence, it's worthy to watch twice.

the process in the journey matters more than the destination. I cried in the nearly ending part, the ending scene is excellent too...it is a hell good film and a must see for most the adult who are over 30, either you prepare to face the aging or, you will see yourself in the story too, as old as you can be, life is there waiting for you to fulfill, and the journey in each day matters the most, that's what I've learned form this movie, casts are perfect, music is beautifully paved from the first scene till the end, David is always good at his score-sense in his films, for the whole movie, I would give it an 8, simply perfect!!

This is really a nice story, very true as my own experience, I believe anyone who ever been to that state or close to, things might go so tragic like that, The film is a truly reminder for all of us ---don't ever be that way when you fall in love, the ending could be whole lot different and you can get more than what it could offer. Self loving is always the infinity, the forever lesson for all of us to learn and stand on foot with it this life. We fall, then we grow. Brigitte Rouan is really a talent, she deserves more recognition than this film did. Great work as a female director, we need more of them like she is. Working on a project that might call her soul and she did it faithfully.