I apologise, we feel bad, but there's no trailer available. ~Ed.
Astonishingly, though, the film’s brutality never plays like a stunt, thanks to Ms. Dawson’s revelatory performance and Ms. Lugacy’s adventurous direction (which includes lots of long takes and metaphorically apt compositions). Hard to watch but essential to see, “Descent” is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place...
"We had faces then," Norma Desmond said in "Sunset Boulevard," but the fact is, we have faces now. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank and Uma Thurman are a few modern classics, and so is Rosario Dawson, who could have provided a 100-minute closeup and revealed more about human nature and anguish than all of "Descent," a rape-revenge fantasy that will have audiences ankling after the first attack...
There are also a handful of interesting moments—the lesbo-erotic spark between Maya and her ex-roommate, Jared's unexpected reaction to his comeuppance— but those are quickly discarded, leaving only a well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play...
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 30th Nov 2006.
Release date: November 30th 2006.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
