The Stone Angel (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Kari Skogland

Escritores:

Margaret Laurence (novel)
Kari Skogland (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 julio 2008 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Sometimes it takes your whole life to get it right.

Plot:

In Manitoba, Hagar Shipley is nearing 90. She has little, she tells us, but her memories. Over several weeks...

Plot Keywords:

Premarital Sex | Sex In Chair | Female Nudity | Run Over By A Train | White Panties

Premios:

3 wins & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I liked it.

Reparto

Ellen Burstyn	...	Hagar
Christine Horne	...	Young Hagar
Cole Hauser	...	Young Bram
Ellen Page	...	Arlene
Sheila McCarthy	...	Doris
Kevin Zegers	...	John
Dylan Baker	...	Marvin
Peter MacNeill	...	Jason
Aaron Ashmore	...	Matt
Luke Kirby	...	Leo
Janet-Laine Green	...	Lottie
Judy Marshak	...	Silver Elms Matron
Doreen Brownstone	...	Silver Elms Bridge Player
Samantha Weinstein	...	Hagar - Child
Ryland Thiessen	...	Telford - Child

También conocida como:

El ángel de piedra (Argentina) (cable TV title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some sexuality and brief language.

Duración:

USA:116 min | Canada:90 min | Canada:115 min

País:

Canada | UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Canada:14A | USA:R (certificate #44521) | Singapore:M18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hartney, Manitoba, Canada

Compañía:

Alliance

Trivialidades:

During filming, Ellen Burstyn saw on the call sheet a long lost relative who was working on the crew.

Errores:

Anacronismos: The first incident with the freight train is set about 1950 yet it has no caboose. The caboose was not replaced by an electronic monitor on the last freight car until the eighties. It's also more than likely that in that era in western Canada a freight would have been hauled by steam rather than diesel.

Banda de Sonido:

All People That On Earth Do Dwell

I liked it.

I saw the movie recently and really liked it. I surprised myself and cried. This movie is in the same niche genre as "Away from Her" - or even "The Bucket List" but handles the whole aging theme with incredible authenticity. It's really really tough to have the main character as unlikable as Hagar. The director does a masterful job with the challenge. Hagar's hard to understand. Her world has hard edges and she isn't a warm endearing woman at all.

The first scene gets this across without any compromise. Hagar (Ellen Burnstyn) is being taken to a nursing home by her son and daughter-in-law. She figures it out en-route and freaks out. Her edges are really hard. She is mean. She is belittling and selfish. She is a stone. I didn't like her - not even a little bit.

Throughout the course of the movie, we get insight. We find out why she doesn't like petunias, why she favors one son over the other, how her losses have formed her character... I started to see the angel... and I started to like her. I especially liked her when she poured out her secrets to the boy in the shack. Ellen Burnstyn, you are a brilliant actor. Kudos. Kudos. Kudos. What a scene!

This isn't a "feel good" movie, but it is certainly a movie that brings the viewer to empathy. I understand more clearly that hard edges in a person's life are there to protect, they are there for a reason...

Hagar isn't my mother - she isn't even my mother-in-law or neighbor... but parts of her are present in many women (and men) in my life. Those parts somehow make more sense to me now that I've watched The Stone Angel.