Angelina jolie by the sea review năm 2024

Widely dismissed as a vanity project for its photogenic stars, this serves as the artsy European flipside to Mr & Mrs Smith, the enjoyably brash Hollywood smash-em-up that first spawned the Brangelina behemoth. Where Doug Liman’s 2005 action film found the couple trying to kill each other while falling in love, this finds them trying not to kill themselves while falling out of love. The 70s-set story largely unfolds in a lavish hotel suite in the scenic south of France (actually Malta), where blocked writer Roland (Brad Pitt) hits the bottle when given the cold shoulder by the medicated Vanessa (Angelina Jolie Pitt, also writing and directing). But when attractive newlyweds (Mélanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud) move in next door, a spy hole in the wall awakens dormant desires that blend voyeurism and revenge, with underlying grace notes of grief. There’s a hint of the psychopathy of The Comfort of Strangers or Blue Velvet as these dead souls play Peeping Tom with the living embodiments of their past, but Jolie Pitt is clearly aiming more for the spirit of Bergman, Buñuel or Antonioni. Sadly, away from the war zones of In the Land of Blood and Honey and Unbroken, she becomes somewhat becalmed and we end up more focused on Vanessa’s symbolically entombing Liz Taylor/Sophia Loren wardrobe than the emotional battlefields of the bedroom. As for the couple’s long-withheld secret, its eventual revelation is appropriately anticlimactic.

By the Sea - video review Guardian

Writer-director Angelina Jolie's attempt to emulate European art cinema is a slow, sodden, stupefyingly dull take on a 1970s marriage gone bad. Jolie plays Nessa, and her husband, Brad Pitt, is Nessa's husband, Roland. The Pitts, it must be said, suffer gorgeously. Vacationing at a swank hotel in Malta, they spy through a peephole at newlyweds next door (Mélanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud). Nessa and Roland barely talk. When they finally do, you pray they'll shut up. "I smell fish," Nessa says, sniffing. Nah. What stinks is the movie.

By the Sea is a series of nice visuals and pleasant costumes. Which is frustrating as there is an interesting kernel of an idea here, especially when combined with the lead cast.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2020

About the technical level there is nothing bad to say, the film is quite stimulating in terms of video and audio. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 27, 2019

By the Sea is a hard watch in a lot of ways, not because the subject matter is difficult to watch unfold, but because the slow-going plot and sparsely-used dialogue will make you impatiently awaiting the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Nothing ever truly sizzles. The result is a film that is very flat, and easily forgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 17, 2019

The chemistry between Brad and Angelina is killer. It palpable and obvious it is from beyond the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 30, 2018

It's a shame because we know what they're going for, that French Italian new wave idiom but they never get there. It approaches the artistic heights, but no cigar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Jolie appears to have spent more time picking out lingerie and arranging it in silk and satin than writing the script or even trying to get her husband to act

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2018

Along the way, it lost itself, turning into something that is neither here or there. It is a film that is as confused as its barren characters.

Full Review | May 1, 2018

It's touching, but it doesn't save the result from becoming anembarrassment.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2018

It's clear that [Director] Jolie-Pitt is going to take her time to develop the plot. Also, that the story itself is small. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Dec 5, 2017

Cutting, provocative, introspective and wickedly astute, the elegant art-house melodrama juxtaposes beauty with the ugliness of the institution [of marriage].

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2017

From the moment our gilded couple hove into view in one of the most beautiful cars ever made a convertible Citroën DS I have to say I rather warmed to it, despite its obvious lack of commerciality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2017

The result is an uneven film that tests viewers' patience as holes in the narrative are filled with unhappy stares and beauty shots of the Maltese coastline...

Full Review | Oct 18, 2017

So it's a misfire, but one that springs from a deeply felt place.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2017

The message reached by the end of the film is worth the wait, as long as you're willing to ponder the meaning after the final scene.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2017

This movie would have been a lot better if it weren't so concerned with being beautiful or important.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 10, 2017

Thankfully, Jolie Pitt the director is in much better form; and as ponderous, maybe even pretentious, as some of this might be, there was never a moment where I wanted to look away from the screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2016

There is no doubt that this drama is a half-hour too long and slow-moving, but Jolie and Pitt do some of their best work in scenes here -- and they don't hold back.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2016

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What was point of By the Sea movie?

Jolie stated that the film "at its core, is about grief" further noting that the loss of her mother in 2007 caused a great deal of sadness for her. To that end, the movie resembles movies of the 1960s and '70s; Jolie stated that her mother "loved films of that period".

Is it worth watching the song of the sea?

Song of the Sea ReviewsSong Of The Sea is visually lush, but it's story is never too cluttered or busy. It doesn't depend on manic sugar rush energy to keep its intended audience of kids attention, but rather seeks to draw them into a fascinating, unique world.

Was By the Sea a good movie?

By the Sea is a hard watch in a lot of ways, not because the subject matter is difficult to watch unfold, but because the slow-going plot and sparsely-used dialogue will make you impatiently awaiting the end. Nothing ever truly sizzles. The result is a film that is very flat, and easily forgettable.

Why did Angelina Jolie make By the Sea?

"I wrote 'By the Sea' because I wanted to explore grief," Jolie explained in the behind-the-scenes clip exclusive to People and Entertainment Weekly. "Much of the film and my character are very much about my mother and my feelings about my mother," the 40-year-old actress said.