The picture has been in development with onyx films and studio 37 for a good while. Upside down film us release march 20 with jim sturgess kirsten dunst. The fantasy romance upside down, from writerdirector juan solanas the man without a head, tells the uniquely original story of an interplanetary dystopian romance, in which opposite gravities. Bizarre romantic fantasy upside down is mostly desperately twee, but argentine director juan solanas displays flashes of visual ingenuity, while timothy spall adds amusingly sympathetic support as. As it is, too many elements collide and the film ends up. The political implications of upside down, written and directed by the argentine filmmaker juan solanas, may be obvious, but the movie is not a dystopian satire about the haves and the have. As it is, too many elements collide and the film ends up being distracting and muddled.
Fantasy drama directed by juan solanas and starring jim sturgess, kirsten dunst and timothy spall. I hope he is actively working on something new and great, and that the commercial failure of this movie has not deterred him. Written and directed by awardwinning filmmaker juan solanas and set in twinned worlds with opposite gravities, the film puts an eyepopping, original twist on the classic tale of. Had the premise been simpler, and the central romance more complex, upside down may have met in the middle to make an engrossing drama. Apr 16, 20 upside down official movie trailer hd eone films. T he highlight of upside downa scifi romance set in a world with, per the films lengthy prologue that vaguely recalls the intro to lady gagas born this way video, twin planets each with its own and opposite gravityis the moment adam jim sturgess inadvertently pisses on the ceiling. May 09, 2014 the frenchcanadian film upside down, written and directed by juan solanas, is primarily a visual experience. Juan solanas talks upside down, filming with a limited budget. The film is a conceptual romancescifi from director juan solanas. In a world where two realms with their own gravity exist in proximity to one another, adam sturgess is a relatively ordinary individual. Juan diego solanas upside down 2012 us movie trailer jim sturgess, kirsten dunst, jayne heitmeyer, agnieshka wnorowska, and. Upside down may have met in the middle to make an engrossing drama. With jim sturgess, kirsten dunst, timothy spall, blu mankuma.
Mar 14, 20 in juan solanas latest project, upside down, viewers are plunged into a universe where two planets, the aptly named up and down, developed on top of each other. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the msaesge home a little bit, but. The two lands are linked by a huge corporate building where everyone works. What it ends up being, however, is a creative thought exercise. After years of being solely in the home entertainment business, millennium films continue to try, with upside down, to break into the theatrical side of movies. Juan solanas silly, but visually breathtaking, upside down sometimes just watching a beautifully produced set of visuals unique, colorful, strange. Starcrossed lovers from two disparate planets fight for love against all odds in this romantic scifi adventure starring kirsten dunst and jim sturgess. Juan solanas talks upside down, filming with a limited.
Up is an affluent planet, with only wealthy people, while down is a desolate wasteland, filled with the poor. Posters and images from director juan solanas scifi romance upside down check out the first images from juan solanas interesting scifiromance film upside down, which stars kirsten dunst and jim sturgess as lovers separated by the very laws of gravity. The rich music, the tango, the soaring spaces and height reeled me in. It is a shame that upside down had such a painful and unpromising commercial launch. Juan solanas s digital fantasy takes place on twinned planets whose double gravity holds them in such close proximity that people can climb from one to.
In 2012 he has directed the frenchcanadian production upside down. Upside down trailer 20 kirsten dunst movie official. Upside down is the singular vision of the argentinianfrench filmmaker juan solanas, who directed and wrote the screenplay. Adam played by jim sturgess and eden kirsten dunst, who are madly in love. Availability can change throughout the month based on the librarys budget. Upside down film wikipedia, the free encyclopedia upside down is a 2012 canadianfrench romantic science fiction film written and directed by juan diego solanas, starring jim sturgess and kirsten dunst contents 1. The movie brought me in to an expansive, magical world.
Heres our account of how juan solanas s upside down messed up its release. Adam and eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on. The film, directed by juan diego solanas, takes place on twin alien planets. Their release of the paperboy, with nicole kidman, last year, didnt do well, but bernie, starring jack black, was a modest art house hit of 2012. Upside down features incredible visual moments and usually every little detail is a wonder to behold, but there is only so much that urinating upside down can do for a movie and once the novelty. Ten years after a forced separation, adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love. Upside down director juan solanas by cinema royale. Posters and images from director juan solanas scifi romance. Upside down is a 2012 canadianfrench romantic fantasy written and directed by juan diego solanas and starring jim sturgess and kirsten dunst. Dispelling the myth that the brain produces consciousness, and the implications for everyday life by mark gober 5. As a finished movie, it is a beautiful work of art. Kirsten dunst and jim sturgess scifi romance scores bad. Jan 29, 20 upside down trailer 20 official movie trailer in hd starring jim sturgess, kirsten dunst directed by juan diego solanas stunning romantic adventure in an alternate universe with.
The films incredible visuals, which look like they belong in an art gallery instead of up on the big screen, more than complement the dazzling concepts writerdirector juan solanas has crafted in this scifi. Cloud atlas, across the universe star in upside down, an interplanetary dystopian romance about a. The genre shifts never quite gel, despite jim sturgess and kirsten dunsts. He is the son of the argentinian film director and senator fernando solanas. But when argentine director juan solanas set out to make his romantic fantasy film upside down, he was presented with the challenge of filming a world not with zero gravity, but dual gravity.
Going into upside down knowing virtually nothing about it, other than it costars kirsten dunst, i have to admit to being impressed at first. Kirsten dunst, jim sturgess, timothy spall, juan solanas. Jim sturgess, kirsten dunst, timothy spall, blu mankuma en nicholas rose. Aug 28, 20 upside down is commendably daring, yet fruitless in character, lacking warmth where needed, and starving the audience of affection for the very reason it exists. A fantasylike rendition of the tale of two cities concept, it tells the story of two individuals. More than two years after wrapping in late 2010, the ambitious science fantasy romance. Upsidedown was apparently panned by critics and ignored by viewers, criticized for its abstract, physicsrelated concepts of physical gravity, looking for scientific exactness rather than just accepting that the setting is a small part of the film. Jim sturgess talks upside down and director juan solanas vision, calling it stunning and beautiful, plus auditioning for guardians of the galaxy.
Cloud atlas, across the universe star in upside down, an interplanetary dystopian romance about a young mans search for the longlost girl. You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. Upside down trailer 20 official movie trailer in hd starring jim sturgess, kirsten dunst directed by juan diego solanas stunning romantic adventure in an alternate universe with. This guy looked up at a girl on the upper mountain, and she. Dec 28, 2010 posters and images from director juan solanas scifi romance upside down check out the first images from juan solanas interesting scifiromance film upside down, which stars kirsten dunst and jim sturgess as lovers separated by the very laws of gravity.
The political implications of upside down, written and directed by the argentine filmmaker juan solanas, may be obvious, but the movie is not. Ive been keeping an eye on juan diego solanas surrealsounding scifi story upside down for a while now. Meanwhile, just overhead, eden dunst dwells in a world defined by wealth and. Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. Born in buenos aires on november 4th 1966, juan diego solanas is the son of one of argentinas most important directors, fernando e.
Upside down is a film produced by a french box, studio 37, where the filming took place in montreal, before the cameras of the argentine director juan solanas. Upside down, a topsyturvy romance by juan solanas the. Upside down is one of the most visually arresting movies to come out so far in 20 second to stoker, and the visuals are endlessly beautiful. A man searches an alternate universe for his long lost love. Mar, 20 the bright yellow stream of urine cuts through writerdirector juan solanass otherwise icy palette and lends at least a fleeting moment of levity to a film whose aweinspiring cg visuals and wellintentioned lead performances are weighed down by the screenplays clever but notentirelycogent premisewhich, in short, involves the. Upside down, a topsyturvy romance by juan solanas the new. The good news, speaking of nonsense, is that you no longer have to imagine what any of those things would be like because upside down is a film that does all of it and much more.
One morning, director juan solanas woke up and had a vision. I saw two mountains, one upside down on top of the other, he recalls. Aug 22, 2012 upside down has been ranked 4592 times, wins 42. Although its difficult to work out from this whether upside down will be good or not, its certainly an intriguin idea and from this evidence its going to be visually arresting. How juan solanass upside down messed up its theatrical. High resolution official movie posters for upside down 20 directed by juan diego solanas. But when argentine director juan solanas set out to make his romantic fantasy film upside down. Jim sturgess, kirsten dunst, timothy spall, juan solanas, dimitri rassam, alexis vonarb, aton soumache, claude leger, jonathan.
Juan solanas upside down is an overly sappy and far too dramatic love story with a hard scifi twist thrown in. Upside down began as a single image seen in a dream by writerdirector juan solanas. Juan solanas piece is fixated on minor incidents as his world burgeons with class discrimination, erupting war, corporate lockdowns, and inhuman law. The fantasy romance upside down, from writerdirector juan solanas the man without a head, tells the uniquely original story of an. Juan solanass digital fantasy takes place on twinned planets whose double gravity holds them in such close proximity that people can climb from one to. Mar 14, 20 one morning, director juan solanas woke up and had a vision. Kirsten dunst spiderman, melancholia and jim sturgess cloud atlas, across the universe star in upside down, an interplanetary dystopian romance about a young mans search for the longlost girl of his dreams. However, its painful birth has nothing to do with the merits of the finished work of art.
Juan solanas ambitious upside down wants to be part alternateuniverse dystopia, part anticorporate screed, and part love story. Were introduced to a binary system governed by three inescapable if not entirely scientific laws. New poster and trailer for the science fiction novel. Posters and images from director juan solanas scifi. Beautiful new images for juan solanas upside down heyuguys. But between that release and its annoucement back in 2009, the life of this film has looked like a rollercoaster made of delays, rumours and ultimately bad press. Born in buenos aires on november 4th 1966, juan diego solanas is the son of one of. Juan solanas born 4 november 1966 is an argentine film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. Upside down takes that conceit and flips it on its head by offering a vision of twin planets that are literally within shouting distance of each other their respective highest mountain peaks almost touch and which have gravities that pull in opposite directions. Otherwise, any connection between the two worlds causes things to burn.
If youre feeling charitable, that fact might serve as a thin excuse for the cavernsized plot holes and lapses in basic logic the film frequently indulges in. I think the visual medium is an underrated component of film critiques but this movie would have been better off as a book. I saw this man on top of a mountain, looking up and seeing a woman on top of another mountain but upside down, solanas recalls of that seminal moment. Adam sturgess lives on a planet where poverty is the norm. Jim sturgess talks upside down and auditioning for. He leads a simple life but is plagued by the memories of a. Adam and eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. The bright yellow stream of urine cuts through writerdirector juan solanass. Upside down finally came out in us theatres on march 15th, 20. Mar, 20 if the answer to all of these hypotheticals is yes, the bad news is that you have pretty much wasted a chunk of your existence on nonsense. Upside down trailer 20 kirsten dunst movie official hd. The frenchcanadian film upside down, written and directed by juan solanas, is primarily a visual experience. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again. Upside down was apparently panned by critics and ignored by viewers, criticized for its abstract, physicsrelated concepts of physical gravity, looking for scientific exactness rather than just accepting that the setting is a small part of the film.
Adam jim sturgess lives in an alternate universe in which the lower class walks rightsideup on the ground, and the upper class walks upside down on a kind of island in the sky. Jim sturgess talks upside down and auditioning for marvel. Upside down by juan solanas jim sturgess, kirsten dunst. Frank scheck found the film confusing, saying, you practically need an advanced degree in physics to fully comprehend the convoluted physical machinations depicted in upside down, juan solanas dizzyingly loopy scifi romance. Mar 31, 2014 the film to most recently catch my attention on netflix was juan solanas upside down.
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