Fox Searchlight, Meet Award-Winning Director Jonathan Glazer

Whoa. Who would have ever thought that two movies would feature scenes with a character walking in traffic, with three — count ’em, three! — extremely rare types of shots: The close-up, the middle-range shot, and the wide-angle shot with the character in front of one of the vehicles and a teeny bit off to the side. This, clearly, is cause for investigation.

I just watched Jonathan Glazers new movie, “Birth” with nicole kidman. I must admit I was a little apprehensive about it, not knowing who he was. But starring nicole kidman, I thought, “it can’t be that bad”. Boy, was I surprised at the genius of his talent. Brillantly woven in mystery, was this love story which moved me to tears. Her love for her dead husband, was so strong, even in death I was all choked up.
One thing I didn’t understand was the final scene. Did she realize at her wedding that itwas Sean afterall???? The boy gave her a final letter, was it in that letter that she realized it was really him??? And why at the wedding did she run out to the seaside???
Someone please answer me!!!!

And it’s not like we’ve seen cgi crows descend on a city before, or demonic babydolls with robot spider legs or anything. Still, the movie is fantastic. You can still find torrents of the original Russian, I think (and I’m kind of shocked it’s [years later] found distribution here).