Brilliantlove reviews
Review by on 23 Sep 2010
When writing and thinking about BRILLIANTLOVE, the word ‘love’ comes up a lot, showing that this controversial yet beautiful perception of love makes you start to wonder exactly what your views on love, sex and commitment are. We see the two main characters, Manchester and Noon, express their love through sex, drugs and alcohol while taking an adventure to a better lifestyle with a wealthy pornographer, however taking a few bad turns for worse could interrupt their perfect world. From the director’s point of view, Ashley Horner expresses their relationship, not only by filmmaking, but also music, artistic cinematography and the creativity and imagination of Manchester’s photos.
Straight away the question of morals and equality irrupt from this film and it is obvious that Horner questions feminism or how women would react to this film as some may find it objectifies women as mere sex symbols for men. One could immediately say this is quite simply ‘a dirty porn movie’ however if you look past the graphical sex scenes and descriptions, you can see how perhaps it is an attempt to mould modern films so sex becomes more acceptable on screen, and so there is a new way of expressing love and passion.
My personal view of the film was that it had a brilliant and in depth way of showing money does not make one’s life any better or fulfilled. BRLLIANTLOVE proves that if a couple are in love so much they do not need the necessities of which only money can bring. The way Manchester does not need an expensive camera to create amazing photos is a fantastic example of this. This is a perfect film for anyone who feels passionately about the way love is expressed through different arts.
Rebecca Chivers
Straight away the question of morals and equality irrupt from this film and it is obvious that Horner questions feminism or how women would react to this film as some may find it objectifies women as mere sex symbols for men. One could immediately say this is quite simply ‘a dirty porn movie’ however if you look past the graphical sex scenes and descriptions, you can see how perhaps it is an attempt to mould modern films so sex becomes more acceptable on screen, and so there is a new way of expressing love and passion.
My personal view of the film was that it had a brilliant and in depth way of showing money does not make one’s life any better or fulfilled. BRLLIANTLOVE proves that if a couple are in love so much they do not need the necessities of which only money can bring. The way Manchester does not need an expensive camera to create amazing photos is a fantastic example of this. This is a perfect film for anyone who feels passionately about the way love is expressed through different arts.
Rebecca Chivers
Review by on 22 Sep 2010
It usually bodes badly for a film to have a terrible title, and BRILLIANTLOVE certainly lives up to its name. The initial idea about young, vacuous, horny adults constantly going at it is fairly underwhelming, and the dramatic set up of the story is rushed out in an improbable way within the first ten minutes. Everything is focussed around relentless kinky sex and pointless genitalia washing scenes, rather than in taking the time to develop either character into a three-dimensional person.
Noon is a taxidermist who does little other than collect the multitude of birds that happen to drop dead in perfect condition right outside her front door. Manchester doesn't appear to do anything other then hang around eating ice pops. Together it is utterly believable that they would have a shallow and exciting sexual relationship, but the idea that they are actually in love is shoe-horned in via occasional overly sentimental lines of dialogue, and this just doesn't ring true at all.
The culmination features a cringe-worthy art show where Manchester's pornographic photographs of himself and Noon are exhibited, unbeknownst to her. He dresses up in a scarf and eyeliner while everyone in attendance coos in delight at the mediocre pictures, before Manchester impresses everybody by urinating into his own mouth. Beautiful shots of Northern countryside landscapes provide occasional light relief, as does a final scene where Manchester gets a well-deserved punch in the face.
Sarah Chorley
Noon is a taxidermist who does little other than collect the multitude of birds that happen to drop dead in perfect condition right outside her front door. Manchester doesn't appear to do anything other then hang around eating ice pops. Together it is utterly believable that they would have a shallow and exciting sexual relationship, but the idea that they are actually in love is shoe-horned in via occasional overly sentimental lines of dialogue, and this just doesn't ring true at all.
The culmination features a cringe-worthy art show where Manchester's pornographic photographs of himself and Noon are exhibited, unbeknownst to her. He dresses up in a scarf and eyeliner while everyone in attendance coos in delight at the mediocre pictures, before Manchester impresses everybody by urinating into his own mouth. Beautiful shots of Northern countryside landscapes provide occasional light relief, as does a final scene where Manchester gets a well-deserved punch in the face.
Sarah Chorley
Review by on 19 Sep 2010
Surely the most graphic film sexually I have ever seen. I can see the point it illustrates and for a while it works well but gradually you got a little tired of Manchester being so one-dimensional and her being so filthy. The art show centre was very well done but after that it lost its way and neither I nor the director seemed to know or care whether these two should live or die.
Film details
Brilliantlove
MAIN FEATURES
Director: Ashley Horner
Actor: Liam Browne
Actor: Nancy Trotter
Actor: Michael Hodgson
Actor: Arabella Arnott
Actor: Stephen Bent
Actor: Liam Browne
Actor: Nancy Trotter
Actor: Michael Hodgson
Actor: Arabella Arnott
Actor: Stephen Bent
United Kingdom, 2010.
97 mins.
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