The New York Post movie blogger thoroughly trashed this perfectly paced, intricately plotted art film.
Yes, it's an Art Film; it's not a Western, nor a Jackie Chan movie, full of flash and dash and daring. It demands that you pay attention to the actors, and the very subtle workings of their minds, as they go through the slow process of awakening to each other. These people are not Californians who might tear into each others lives, uninvited, like big happy puppies.
There is a joke told near the beginning of the film about the two happiest days in a sailor's life being the day he buys a boat, and the day he sells it. "Hide Away" tells the story of a broken man's intensely personal struggle to rebuild his shattered life as he also rebuilds the wreck of a boat he once admired.
The use of flash backs is crucial, as it is more or less exactly the way the whole process of healing the heart works in the human mind/soul. Chris Eyre's directing is superb, as is the acting, if you understand laconic people, and the movie score and cinematography deserves kudos as well.
People who sail boats around the world would get this film. People who wish they could will understand it, too. I have no problem with a film that takes time to tell such a complex human drama, or makes me think as well as feel.
Yes, it's an Art Film; it's not a Western, nor a Jackie Chan movie, full of flash and dash and daring. It demands that you pay attention to the actors, and the very subtle workings of their minds, as they go through the slow process of awakening to each other. These people are not Californians who might tear into each others lives, uninvited, like big happy puppies.
There is a joke told near the beginning of the film about the two happiest days in a sailor's life being the day he buys a boat, and the day he sells it. "Hide Away" tells the story of a broken man's intensely personal struggle to rebuild his shattered life as he also rebuilds the wreck of a boat he once admired.
The use of flash backs is crucial, as it is more or less exactly the way the whole process of healing the heart works in the human mind/soul. Chris Eyre's directing is superb, as is the acting, if you understand laconic people, and the movie score and cinematography deserves kudos as well.
People who sail boats around the world would get this film. People who wish they could will understand it, too. I have no problem with a film that takes time to tell such a complex human drama, or makes me think as well as feel.
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I’m going through some stuff but I will peek in now and then and will be back when it’s over..