Review of The Constant Gardener (2005) by Steven C — 27 Nov 2010
Director Fernando Meirelles makes some interesting choices with his essentially old-fashioned conspiracy picture. Meirelles crafts an aggressive feel of constant back and forth between past and present, love and death, good and evil.
The film is visually striking but it almost hinders the final outcome. The images are so busy that it exhausts the eyes, making the film seems a lot longer than it actually is. Regardless, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz (in an Oscar winning role) give the intense human connection that propels the picture.
Unique, romantic, unsettling and exciting in equal measure, "The Constant Gardener" is one of the finer examples of message cinema from the 00s.
This review of The Constant Gardener (2005) was written by Steven C on 27 Nov 2010.
The Constant Gardener has generally received very positive reviews.
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