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Patrick Jolley,Reynold Reynolds
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Sugar (2005) is a English movie. Patrick Jolley,Reynold Reynolds has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Sugar (2005) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A young woman rents a shabby one room apartment, opening the door for visions, nightmares, memories, and revenge.
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Sugar (2005) Reviews
Possible spoiler
I just saw this at the Baltimore Film Festival. It's an in-close, gritty look at the psychological disintegration of a young woman. Ms. Golden gives an understated but highly dramatic portrayal, occupying virtually every scene, solo nearly every frame, and with no dialogue. I consider it a very brave, challenging performance - certainly in the degree of intimacy (and the nude scenes are only part of that) we achieve - and one to be applauded. The look of the film - the apartment itself, the different filming styles, the closeups - are very gritty, very pressing, just like this woman's situation. We watch and try to decipher - via camera-work clues and her own actions - what she's thinking, and why. It becomes clear soon enough that we're witnessing dreams, or illusions, or the supernatural - something unreal blended with the real. Director Reynolds and writer Golden have tailored this to an audience willing to think on its feet, something too rare in the cinema. I missed an opportunity to speak with Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Golden between showings - they were at a sidewalk café next door to the Charles Theater as I walked by. I would have loved to get their take on their work. I highly recommend SUGAR for those willing to work - and play - their way thru an unconventional presentation of a mental transformation.
Student Film agony from start to finish. Run away as fast as you can.
This movie is a weapon of mass destruction or at the very least, a fine torture device. I must say it was VERY intriguing at the beginning- there's a petite woman holed up in a run down top floor apartment that is hot as hell. We hear the steady whine of the various appliances and it is very quiet. The contents of the refrigerator are strewn on the floor- we wonder why- then we see she is inside the fridge curled up to cool down. And the rest of this movie is just like that- makes you curious as to why something is the way it is- and then you find out in a very underwhelming visual presentation. I liken the feelings this movie emotes to the feeling you get when you are coming down hard after a very long nite of partying, every part of your body is worn out and ready to fall apart but for some reason you are simply too tired to sleep. You haunt yourself in an ethereal existence of non-being as no real thought or action occurs- it's just you sitting there wishing you could sleep or wishing you had more energy and not knowing how to pursue either endeavor so you just sit there like a zombie hating life. That's this director in a nutshell- he had an idea but had no idea whatsoever how to pursue it so in true student art film cookie cutter method he does something stupid to make the audience not understand this film so he can feel like he is smart by confusing them. Baby, smart don't come from stupid- plain and simple. This movie is dumb, boring and torturous to attempt to bear. It will scar you and make you want that time of you life back. It fully sucks in every way conceivable. Have I made myself clear?
Disorientating, nauseating, but intriguing.
I saw this at the Edinburgh film festival. All I gathered from the programme of events was that it began with a woman emerging from a fridge and went from there. For me this initial image itself seemed worth the price of my reduced student ticket alone, so I went in expecting to be baffled, and expecting to have to think, and think I did. Sugar is a film you have to use your imagination to understand. It's art, not in a pretentious way, but in the sense that its images and ideas are not inclined to present themselves within the temporal and spatial framework of the narrative of the real world. And I think, if you're prepared to view it this way, you will, guaranteed, come out with something that you didn't have before. It taps into a multitude of ideas, most of which have been done before, but never in quite the same way. At moments it felt like a movie about domestic violence. An abused woman taking revenge on her boyfriend by replacing the sugar in a cake with poison. Sometimes it felt like a serial killer movie. The previous tenant of the house seems to be incarcerated behind a grating, and the art direction is as grotesque as anything from Se7en. Then it became a Lynchian meditation on identity. The body behind the grating was at one point the same person as the main character. Again, it reminded me of Polanski's The Tenant. Was the man/woman behind the grating the ghost of the former tenant haunting the new owner surrounded by what might well have been metaphorical clutter. I enjoyed this film simply because it hinted at so much but confounded nothing. All these interpretations and whatever else anyone might have come up with remained valid beyond the rolling of the credits. If anything though, there was too much there, and the film sometimes felt the equivalent of the filthy, messy apartment. This did however feel quite fitting, and ultimately the film lived up to its title, a slightly sickeningly large dose of refined sugar, that may just have been replaced at times by poison.
Really stupid - possible spoiler
Man, this film was brutal! As somebody else said, it was like a student film, and only a run-of-the-mill one at that. I agree that there are some elements that are impressive-- the atmosphere was well done, and the actress was quite good-- but overall, just a ponderous, navel-gazing, boring waste of time. Having said that, I must nevertheless admit that I have thought about this movie quite a bit since watching it. I think I have decided that the woman did in fact move in to an apartment that was filled with the previous tenant's stuff... and preceded to go crazy and kill herself by ingesting roach poison. It is of course a slow and painful death, in the throes of which she undergoes many strange and terrifying fantasies, dreams and hallucinations. She must have been "troubled" to begin with. Perhaps that she lives in someone else's space is emblematic of the woman's tortured and twisted sense of identity... she cannot believe, see or understand that she is the only one there, and is the one who's dying. Until the end, when she finally takes responsibility for her baggage... BTW, dig the wardrobe.
Great experimental narrative
It's rare that I personally see films that boarder on experimental and narrative that actually work for me. "Sugar" is a definite exception to this rule. This film was interesting without being obvious and used devices, such as a mixture of B&W and color, to their full potential for once. I wouldn't dream of trying to go into what this film is about as it will likely be translated differently by everyone that sees it; that's part of it's charm. Hopefully this film will receive some sort of release, but don't expect to see it at the mega-plex near you any time soon. Samara Golden does an exceptional job in the lead role and stays compelling throughout even without dialog while appearing in almost every frame of the film. The craftsmanship is unbeatable and I consider this film a must see for anyone that that is really interested in the medium of film.