THE LOVELY BONES
USA/United Kingdom/New Zealand
2009
134 minutes
A teenage girl is murdered by a psychotic neighbour and watches from above on the way her family deals with the loss. Technically impeccable but dramatically uneven combination of creepy murder mystery and throwback to 1940s celestial melodramas from a celebrated best-seller whose main fault lies in its uncertainty of tone.
A Paramount Pictures release. Dreamworks Pictures presents, in association with Film 4, a Wingnut Films production.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli; and Saoirse Ronan.
Directed by Peter Jackson; produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Aimée Peyronnet; screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, based on the novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones; music by Brian Eno with Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins; director of photography (DeLuxe, widescreen), Andrew Lesnie; production designer, Naomi Shohan; costume designer, Nancy Steiner; film editor, Jabez Olssen; senior visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon auditorium (Lisbon), March 4th 2010.
2009
134 minutes
A teenage girl is murdered by a psychotic neighbour and watches from above on the way her family deals with the loss. Technically impeccable but dramatically uneven combination of creepy murder mystery and throwback to 1940s celestial melodramas from a celebrated best-seller whose main fault lies in its uncertainty of tone.
A Paramount Pictures release. Dreamworks Pictures presents, in association with Film 4, a Wingnut Films production.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli; and Saoirse Ronan.
Directed by Peter Jackson; produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Aimée Peyronnet; screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, based on the novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones; music by Brian Eno with Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins; director of photography (DeLuxe, widescreen), Andrew Lesnie; production designer, Naomi Shohan; costume designer, Nancy Steiner; film editor, Jabez Olssen; senior visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon auditorium (Lisbon), March 4th 2010.
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