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ACTOR
Isabelle BlaisZach BraffPatrick LabbéJulian Lo
DIRECTOR
Deborah Chow
SYNOPSICS
The High Cost of Living (2010) is a English,French,Cantonese movie. Deborah Chow has directed this movie. Isabelle Blais,Zach Braff,Patrick Labbé,Julian Lo are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2010. The High Cost of Living (2010) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels,Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
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A situational drama with quiet undertones, never fully realized
The High Cost of Living (2010) There is something about this kind of slice-of-life movie with a major hook--in this case a car accident and an injury--that makes you want to watch. And here we have a rather realistic depiction of working class Montreal which is interesting as a backdrop, unromanticized. The two leading characters, a Francophone Canadian and an Anglophone New Yorker transplanted to the city, are equally realistic. They find themselves needing, and helping, each other to get through the crisis. You grow gradually to like them just as they slowly learn to like each other, though whether a romance comes out of it is always in doubt. But this isn't quite enough to sustain a full length movie. There is no significant secondary plot, there is no terrific surprise or second phase after the first problem gets resolves. Instead, the main problem (which I'm trying not to give away) is stretched to cover the whole extent and so it gets slow. Often. It's interesting enough you stick with it, but you'll wish for me. I think it's probably true a different pair of leads--including the more famous Zach Braff--could energize or give depth to the role in a way that would fulfill us all better. And the situation they find themselves in is actually fascinating--a little dramatic and unlikely, yes, but leading to an inevitable climax. The relationship grows with delicacy but little emotional complexity. Until the last scene, which is a beautiful way to bring it all to a close.
Cost of Living covers all possible bases
This riveting film is not your typical redemption movie, though you see in a realistic fashion the main character searching for it diligently. Zach Braff plays a man without boundaries or concern for consequence who is suddenly arrested by his own poor choices. The story follows relationships between people who connect, but, just like real life, not quite perfectly. You see the cost of these relationships, and how sometimes there is no pay off. I loved the character development and entire mood of the film. Braff, who I watched religiously on "Scrubs" is phenomenal and unrecognizable from previous roles. The entire cast is great and production and direction may have had budgeting problems, but not enough to take away from this gritty (I promised myself I wouldn't use that word) tale.
High Cost? Not really
This is another of those grey area films for me. Not because of the acting, I think Zach Braff and Isabelle Blais hand in some solid performances. Not even for the definitely overall indy film feel of the movie, which serviced the story ...well. The problem lies within the premise itself. I'm not one to issue spoilers in a review, so you'll just have to view the trailer and suss out the plot for yourself, but there are situations that are introduced between the main characters that simply do not ring true, do not support the weight of the plot, and do not convey a strong enough emotion at times when the events eventually payoff. Despite all this, I don't actually hate the film and found myself wanting to like it more than it probably deserves (despite a second act that dragged on a little longer than it should have.) Currently one of the films screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, I say, when it hits theaters, if you've seen all the other films you wanted to see, find yourself with nothing to do on a particular day, have a little extra spending cash burning a hole in your pocket, and you absolutely must sit in a theater and watch a film why not? There are worse films you could watch.
High life in the depths of Montreal
I'm ever so grateful for the good things Air Canada does, and it would be great to honour that company for it's successes. The individual touch operated free video monitor in front of each seat, is not a common feature in many other airlines - you won't find them in any US Airlines, i was sad to learn. What it provided is a large selection of movies, TV shows, news, from a variety of sources that you can watch, pause, stop and come back to it later in the flight. One one flight from Vancouver to LA, I saw "The High Cost of Living" in the Canadiana movies folder. Having been a great fan of Zach Braff from Scrubs, then Garden State, I was excited to give it a try. I was so happy I did. It was a jewel of a film, shot in Montreal, with a bilingual - sometimes trilingual - cast who, hold their own, but don't overshadow the Hollywood star. This movie could be seen as Zach's Apocalypse now, where the terrible circumstances the film portrays allows the actor to show some good depth. It's not a feel good movie, and Zach is not a hero. He is looking like a man who is nearing middle age and who feels the best parts of his life are already behind him. In fact, Zach's chuteness (Charm and Cuteness) from his previous works, fits in perfectly with the story to draw the portrait of a man who is truly pathetic - a broken man who is living on the drudges of society spiraling down. Until in one terrible night he runs over a beautiful and caring pregnant woman and does a hit and run. It's a clash of cultures and lifestyles. What ensues is a sometimes uncomfortable pursuit of a guilt ridden man trying to atone for his cowardice. Despite the dire picture I painted above, it's still quite a funny movie but never straying to far from sadness, though it's hard not to feel good after the movie ends, well at least, grateful that you are not them. Watch this movie!
intriguing premise
Henry Welles (Zach Braff) is a small-time drug dealer in Montreal. He gets turned around and drives down an one-way street the wrong way. He hits pregnant Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) in a hit and run. Nathalie loses the baby but can't get a cesarean until a few weeks later. Henry sends his friend Johnny to find Nathalie which attracts the attention of police detective Lambert. Henry follows Nathalie to a bar where he defends her against a woman berating her for drinking while pregnant. She has a fight with her husband Michel and leaves him to stay with her new friend Henry. The start has the two sides speaking different languages as if they're taking place in different cities. It's an interesting conceit but it does need to be more demonstrative about the location being Montreal after it's revealed. As for the story, there is an intriguing premise with two actors willing to try. It does wear thin as the audience waits for his inevitable reveal to Nathalie. It would probably help to elevate the story's tension with more Lambert. The climatic meeting with Nathalie is almost anti-climatic. The climax should be more about his guilt and his decision about his crime instead of a romance. In the end, it's an ambiguous ending with the police calling Henry. It doesn't satisfy.