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Tideland [2006]
from Revolver Entertainment
starring Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges
directed by Terry Gilliam

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Whimsical, occasionally alarming and consistently odd, Tideland isn’t a film for everyone. But director Terry Gilliam would be the first to admit that; in his introduction on the DVD, he says that while some people will love the film, others will hate it, and still others just won’t know what to make of it.

It’s not difficult to see why. Tideland is about a little girl whose imagination becomes her refuge when first her mother dies of a drug overdose, then her deadbeat father follows suit, leaving her alone in a house surrounded by endless fields and lurking lunatics.

Tideland has been compared with Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth; but where the latter film had a brutal wartime backdrop, Tideland is set in the sunny but isolated world of the American deep South, and the nightmare creatures of the Labyrinth are exchanged for battered dolls’ heads. Left to his own devices, Gilliam does tend to make very strange films, and this is no exception. Tideland’s real strength is in its lead actress: for an eleven-year-old to carry a film that tackles death, drugs and child abuse is a tall order, but Jodelle Ferland manages it spectacularly. --Sarah Dobbs

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Less than the sum of it's parts
  As a Gilliam fan I was expecting far more from this but, as has been said before, this is possibly due to the original story on which the film was based. Geoff Bridges' character provides the real goodies in the first half of the film after which things do tend to drag. I was contantly expecting 'something more' to happen. That said, the film is beautifully shot and well acted and the 'fantasy' scenes are memorable when Gilliam actually gives free reign to his imagination .

• Dark and confusing
  If you love Gilliam as I do, you forgive the sometimes unfinished feel to the work, for the visual brilliance and uniqueness of his films. But this was just too unstructured and unremmittingly dark for me.

• The Tide Is Out On Gilliam's Career
  This has to be the worst movie I've seen this decade. There are
  just so many things wrong with it, on so many levels, it almost
  defies description; and it would, in any case, take hours to cover
  them comprehensively. But for the sake of brevity, here goes:
  The original story is the principal problem - as is always the
  case - and Gilliam cannot be expected to shoulder the burden of
  that, which lies squarely with the writer, Mitch Cullin. Having
  said that, of course,... more info

• beautiful dark and innocent
  terry gilliam demonstrates his sensitivity and wonder in this film. an adaptation of a book inspired by art, dreams and childhood vision, this film is hard to digest at parts but worth the discomfort.
  in order to fully embrace the point of this film you should lose yourself to the child's perspective, it is hard not to read into all the disturbing suggestive content but as a child of 9 you would not see things the way we do now. the point of the film will be lost the more you cling to an adult view.more info

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