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Monday, May 19, 2008

GRIMM (2003)

Arty Dutch film from Alex Van Warmerdam begins superbly as a sort of modern variant on Hansel & Gretel with grown up siblings abandoned by their parents in the freezing woods. Just when they think they are saved, they awake to find they’re in new desperate straits. Then, with a spectacular (and spectacularly funny) bit of Rube Goldberg action comedy, Warmerdam gets them out of trouble again. Hurrah! But the film soon falls apart with a jolting blink-of-the-eye trip to sunny Spain with another odd couple, a deserted Spaghetti Western ghost town, organ harvesting and a general loss of the dream logic that so convincingly grounded the opening scenes. Still, Warmerdam is someone to watch.

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