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Post by The Ghost of LLC on Mar 9, 2007 3:01:56 GMT
Little Miss Sunshine Jonathon Dayton/Valerie Faris 2006 USA 1st time A highly disfunctional family hits the road in a broken down Volkswagen Bus to make it to a beauty padget in which their daughter is entered in.
This is deffinately an actors/writers piece. The well scripted dialouge and humor and the excellent chemistry and interaction among the actors is what keeps this movie running, foremost. The humor, although at times tinkering upon the brink of obserdity in which I must bring myself to ask if I should be bothered by he ridiculous twists, or allow the logics of comedy to make the situations OK, is excellent and right up my alley. The actors seem to make the most of their surroundings so they may embody the setting into their character's mood and body language, which was interest as 75% of the film takes place inside of a Volkswagen. The visuals were quite nicely executed as well. Wide-lenses, bright colors... Not so much a "revolutionary" shot as it is just simply welcoming and well balance that happens to stick out to me involved the bus and the adults of the family unfocused in the background, on the side of the highway, while the son sits on the opposite side of the shot, right in front of the camera, while his sister walks down from the highway shoulder to his side. Great comedy, well-scripted, and genuinely interesting characters.
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Post by Capo on Apr 7, 2007 13:43:46 GMT
Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton / Valerie Faris 2006 USA A dysfunctional family strive to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant in California. Fashionable film in similar vein as Me and You and Everyone We Know, the kind of small film made big by box office receipts and the kind of bandwagon of supporters that can only sway expectations too high. It is, however, a pleasant surprise of a film, with a good sense of "laugh and cry" rhythm, attractive, varied performances, and consistent cinematography. All of the characters are caricatures, really, and the script seems a draft shy of fully developing them into consistent ("invisible"?) fictions, but as it is, the fact that the directors are husband and wife is telling, because there's a real, rather perceptive sense of "family" here, and that point in the film when the message is presented most evidently - the climactic beauty pageant dance - flirts with cringe-worthiness, but in the end is more similar to Napoleon Dynamite in being surprisingly quite funny and uplifting.
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Post by RNL on Dec 8, 2009 4:10:27 GMT
- Originally posted by Boz: Little Miss Sunshine 2006/Dayton & Faris A nice little quirky family comedy, heart-warming at times, risque at others, a story that never drags supported by a great ensemble cast. Steve Carrell shows some dramatic chops, Alan Arkin came to my conscious for the first time as a great actor, and Paul Dano was almost as good here as he was in The King. Nothing too daring as far as shot composition here but Dayton and Faris manage to craft some nice still images. Overall though, any real poignancy was lost in the absurdity of the ending. Could have been better.
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