{"id":12640,"date":"2011-02-09T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2011-02-09T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:45:38","slug":"rabbit-hole-john-cameron-mirchel-2010-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mirchel, 2010) USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Sweatt<\/a>. Viewed at the Metro 4 Theatre during The 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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A sensitive journey to love and\u00a0healing. Rabbit Hole<\/a> is a dramatic tragedy staring the renowned actress Nicole Kidman. Known for such movies as\u00a0Moulin Rouge, The Hours and Eyes Wide Shut; her amazing\u00a0performance in Rabbit Hole has earned her another Oscar nomination. Her intense role of Becca, a traumatised mother grieving the loss of her young son\u00a0will surly add to her collection of trophies. Robert Durling, the producer of the SBIFF, so believes in her work in this film that he scheduled an evening event\u00a0of\u00a0 tribute way before she even received the nomination. He\u00a0pronounced\u00a0this her best performance to date as it is such an intense\u00a0subject\u00a0matter to handle.<\/p>\n

Rabbit Hole has also been a very personal project for Kidman. As producer, it took Kidman four years to get it made, bringing it from a stage play to the big screen (written by David Lindsay-Abaire).\u00a0Therefore this film also gives us even more of an insight into this big star. Just like her, the film is subdued, and feels more like a foreign film then an American film in the slow deliberate attention to detail as\u00a0 this film focuses on the internal rather than the external.\u00a0Rabbit Hole really delves beneath the surface of the characters, way deep into their psychic and personal truth.<\/p>\n

Aaron Eckhart also delivers a\u00a0great performance as he\u00a0plays Howie Corbet, the husband and father. Even though their reactions to their terrible tragedy is completely opposite he allows her to be where she is. When she flies off the handle sometimes expressing herself as\u00a0 a \u00a0total bitch he has tremendous restraint, patience and compassion for her. After all, they share the very same\u00a0pain.\u00a0I especially appreciate the scene where the couple is in a group therapy session and she gets fed up with all the god talk, taking us on a roller-coaster of emotions\u00a0from very sombre, depressive suddenly to the relief or laughter.<\/p>\n

Following her intuition leads Becca,\u00a0the mother,\u00a0\u00a0into an interesting journey with the very calm and centered Miles Teller who plays the teenager who happened to be driving when their young son ran in to ther street. A fascinating relationship develops between him and Becca. Their secret rendezvous eventually are what heals the wounds for both of them. This young man is a talented artist working on a comic book which brings a whole other layer of colorful creativity to the movie that is otherwise shot in a very subtle neutral color scheme.<\/p>\n

The Rabbit Hole holds allot of moral messages in the actions of the characters. No matter how heated the argument become they fight for each other, always insisting that no one is to blame for the death of their son. This film is tender and intimate taking us on an emotional journey. Afterward I felt strangely calm centered and at peace, \u00a0leaving me with a very good feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Sweatt. Viewed at the Metro 4 Theatre during The 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. A sensitive journey to love and\u00a0healing. Rabbit Hole is a dramatic tragedy staring the renowned actress Nicole Kidman. Known for such movies as\u00a0Moulin Rouge, The Hours and Eyes Wide Shut; her amazing\u00a0performance in Rabbit Hole has earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}