Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner
Synopsis:
A single young man in a tight little religious community of Scandinavian extraction is pathologically shy of contact with other human beings; he even needs to be coerced into going to his brother and sister-in-law's for dinner. All this changes, however, when a colleague draws his attention to a site selling a new generation of lifelike sex dolls.
Review:
At first humorous in its unlikely premise, this typically Nordic oddity takes itself deadly seriously in a touchingly sincere way, so that once the family and community have adjusted to the new reality of Lars's existence, and we have settled into a Max Mon Amour-type situation, we then follow case history-like as he makes his way back to normality thanks to the ministrations of his general practitioner and the long-suffering torch-holding of a pert little office colleague. There can be few films in which the faithful gather in church for the funeral of a sex accessory.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner
Synopsis:
A single young man in a tight little religious community of Scandinavian extraction is pathologically shy of contact with other human beings; he even needs to be coerced into going to his brother and sister-in-law's for dinner. All this changes, however, when a colleague draws his attention to a site selling a new generation of lifelike sex dolls.
Review:
At first humorous in its unlikely premise, this typically Nordic oddity takes itself deadly seriously in a touchingly sincere way, so that once the family and community have adjusted to the new reality of Lars's existence, and we have settled into a Max Mon Amour-type situation, we then follow case history-like as he makes his way back to normality thanks to the ministrations of his general practitioner and the long-suffering torch-holding of a pert little office colleague. There can be few films in which the faithful gather in church for the funeral of a sex accessory.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner
Synopsis:
A single young man in a tight little religious community of Scandinavian extraction is pathologically shy of contact with other human beings; he even needs to be coerced into going to his brother and sister-in-law's for dinner. All this changes, however, when a colleague draws his attention to a site selling a new generation of lifelike sex dolls.
Review:
At first humorous in its unlikely premise, this typically Nordic oddity takes itself deadly seriously in a touchingly sincere way, so that once the family and community have adjusted to the new reality of Lars's existence, and we have settled into a Max Mon Amour-type situation, we then follow case history-like as he makes his way back to normality thanks to the ministrations of his general practitioner and the long-suffering torch-holding of a pert little office colleague. There can be few films in which the faithful gather in church for the funeral of a sex accessory.