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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780780633636 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780633636 Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 23, 2001 Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 56944 MPN: 5157
Product Description: Through taste touch sight hearing and smell secret lives of five troubled characters unfold until each is drawn out of their protective shell into a world that re-ignites the passion in their souls. Starring Mary-Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes)Running Time: 96 min.System Requirements:Running Time 96 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 794043515729
Amazon.com: Though set in Toronto and directed by Canadian Jeremy Podeswa, The Five Senses evokes the emotional geography of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs trilogy. Mightn't the senses do as well as colors to signal a chance-driven world where urban isolates miss and make connections in gloomy corridors and apartments, overcast parks, rainy streets, half-finished constructions? But Podeswa's almost aimless cutting among a clutch of apartment dwellers (each identified with smell, sight, taste, hearing, or touch) is more like a warm bath in easy solutions (or sad songs) than a bracing glimpse into the human condition. A masseuse named Seraph (Gabrielle Rose, The Sweet Hereafter's bus driver) ministers to a weeping boy unable to recall when he was last touched, but she can't reach out to her own daughter (Nadia Litz), a self-loathing teen with a taste for voyeurism. Down the hall, a music-loving ophthalmologist (Philippe Volter) sinks deeper into loneliness as he begins to go deaf. Upstairs, Rona (Mary-Louise Parker), who designs gorgeous but inedible cakes, is unable to quite trust the joyously sensual appetite of her Italian-chef boyfriend. Searching for true love by smell, Rona's bisexual friend Robert (Daniel MacIvor) discovers passing pleasure in a designer perfume with the power to conjure an unexpected liaison. If this were The Sweet Hereafter, the fate of the little girl who goes missing at the start of Podeswa's film might shadow these "sensualists" into radical transformation, perhaps even parole them from the prison of self. But The Five Senses never gets that far under the skin. Still, there is something pleasantly hypnotic, even liberating, about the way Podeswa drifts lightly over surfaces, never getting caught in the net of narrative. --Kathleen Murphy
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Rating: - Little known masterpiece -- find it, savor it, share it!
First, I should admit that I am biased toward this film to start. I adore movies that have several different characters -- or several different storylines -- that begin weaving together and intensifying ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Movie
Not a great movie. Not a five-star classic that I'm going to watch again and again. Not what I'd expect to win all the awards it has. But it's good. It's better than the summary on the back of the DVD ... Read More
Rating: - "Nothing can cure the soul like the senses" Oscar Wilde
THE FIVE SENSES is a film metaphor, a study of people all interconnected in a Canadian city whose characters are representative of the Five Senses; touch, smell, vision, hearing, taste.
Rating: - Using the Body to Reach the Soul
It seems that year after year, Canadian cimena becomes the more soulfull in the world. Films like Egoyan's "Exotica" and "Sweet Hereafter" have been aclaimed world wide, but this "The Five Senses" also deserve ... Read More
Rating: - Quirky French-Canadian romanticism
To understand exactly what writer/director Jeremy Podeswa tries to accomplish with 'The Five Senses,' it's first necessary to know where the idea for this quirky little film originated. After reading Diane Ackerman's ... Read More
- Little known masterpiece -- find it, savor it, share it!
- A Good Movie
- Using the Body to Reach the Soul