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Cashback [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)


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"there is an art to putting your mind somewhere else whilst the seconds slowly tick away..."
Review date: 2008-08-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

Tedious and genre-confused film about an art student who's split up with his girlfriend and is moping around not able to sleep because of it. He gets a job in Sainsbury's at night to pass his time, where he imagines time stopping to be able to disrobe the (young, nubile, attractive) female customers to sketch them. The rest of the film seems just to be pithy padding to justify the DVD cover image scene.

In the "Clerks" vein, this film appears quite pleased with itself - it has huge delusions of its own production brilliance (music video style transitions, verbose narration), insight and art-house / cult credentials - whilst simultaneously aspiring towards "American Beauty" in its purported focus on the beauty in the everyday, cross-fertilised with "Human Traffic's" hedonistic, nihilist zeitgeist.

In reality, it's just an irrelevant, ponderous, monotonous, first-person pretentious narrative, teenage-angst-ridden movie incorporating some cheap titillation masquerading as `the appreciation of the female form'. Sadly it's not even faintly amusing with it. The target audience for a movie of such superficiality is probably boys in their early teens.

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very enteraining
Review date: 2008-08-05 Rating: 8 out of 10

We enjoyed this film immensely. We expected some 'ligth entertainment' but found a film with a satisfying story showing with some insight into the developlemnt of the main character.

Make use you get the longer 'unrated' version. I suspect the UK release cuts some of the nudity which is really central to the story.

Robert

aye, pretty good
Review date: 2008-07-14 Rating: 8 out of 10

I'm not quite sure why i enjoyed this film so much. it has something. even though some bits are kinda cheesy, other bits totally aren't, and it makes for a brilliant film somehow. i'm not doing it justice here. it's definitely worth a watch. i think some people will love it, but i dont reckon it'd be everyone's cup of tea.

Amateurish yet professional, bad yet good
Review date: 2007-08-24 Rating: 6 out of 10

In some ways, it may only be fully understood by those attracted to the female form, as it chronicles what it is like to experience attraction to it. Particularly the effect that seeing a beautiful naked woman can have on a small boy. Like many good films, it has a message of hope and does something with the medium that one hasn't seen before. (Even though it does many I have, and badly.) Although it is part escapism, it is also grounded in some of the humdrum yet interesting reality we know, giving it a nice duality. Unfortunately, it is let down by a bad script that sometimes verges on less than one dimensional but that doesn't spoil some beautiful moments. One very odd thing is that although it is set in 2005, supposedly we are expected to believe that when the young university student was a boy of perhaps 11 the year was 1984. It would have been about 1995. What is more, his mother was dressed in 70s style clothing! I know the 80s is currenlty thought of as hipper than the mid-90s but to a 31 year old this is a very blatant anachronism.

the next great cult movie
Review date: 2007-08-16 Rating: 10 out of 10

the feature was based on a short film which went around the festival circuit about 2 years ago. the dvd contains the short film, the feature film and some other clips on the making of the film. the director is a famous photographer, and that will explain why the camerawork is simply awesome. apart from having a collection of the most beautiful women in the world (i am guessing they were models that the director probably worked with before?)roaming around a supermarket (some topless..) the storyline is an amazing introspective from a students perspective of how to keep 'the boring day job'..and how to capture those special moments in life.. i loved it

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Michelle Ryan (II)
Sean Biggerstaff
Emilia Fox
Stuart Goodwin
Shaun Evans (II)

Creators:
Sean Biggerstaff (Primary Contributor)
Emilia Fox (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
EAN: 0876964000925
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2007-07-24
Universal product code (UPC): 876964000925
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 102 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)

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