Swept from the Sea

I awoke early in the morning to by chance catch this particular movie. Or more so it caught me. This beautiful story of powerful love is quite the heart-wrenching story of tragedy, and in many ways a more powerful image of... Full review

great romantic movie, beautiful story about love, intolerance and human cruelty. Very ggod acting, marvelous pictures of beatuful island and sea, convinicable story, all in all definitly worth looking... Full review

Wanted to walk out of the movie, but they were comp tickets. and we were with our friends. They did not like it either. If you plan to see it - be warned.... Full review

I managed to catch this film while channel surfing and quickly ushered my children outside so that I could enjoy the show. Although the cinematography may not be up to Hollywood standards of crisp, digitized landscapes I found the film to... Full review

Konrad Korzeniowski at age 15 ran away from his native Poland to seek fortune in the world - the same as Yanko Gooral in this film - and fetched up at Marseilles. There he signed on as crewman on a... Full review

It was a mean time both historically and geographically. The people lived on a stark and barren spit of land attached to a strikingly beautiful yet often-ferocious sea. Storms were frequent and accompanied by howling winds, slashing rains and crashing waves... Full review

This movie is excellent. I knew the cast was good, and in fact all the performances are first class, but the story and the scenery are equally inviting. I caught this on a wet afternoon, and I was totally drawn in.... Full review

The British have dedicated themselves lately to film their wonderful 19th century novels: Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and have come now into the 20th for a Joseph Conrad short story with a strong 19th century flavor. It's their answer to the... Full review

Yet Willocks' men love it....An entire review might be devoted to the sport of mocking Willocks' crimes against decent English prose, but, great fun....For all his stylistic clumsiness, Willocks mounts an impressive narrative drive.... ... Full Review

No, it's not "Titanic" but "Swept From the Sea," a traditional emotional melodrama that benefits from fine acting by Ian McKellen as well as its literary origins. Though Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster," the short story the film is loosely based on, is not one of the writer's celebrated works, seeing "Swept From the Sea" underlines why classic fiction is such a hot commodity in Hollywood these days. ... Full Review

Swept from the Sea starts at the end, then proceeds to relate the entire story via the overused narrative technique of flashbacks. Problem #3: the script is so insipid that it's impossible to become involved enough with these characters to care one way or another what happens to them. ... Full Review

Weisz is charming and pleasing to look at, and because her part requires silence most of the time For some reason, director Kidron seems to have encouraged the most awful kind of overacting whenever a little bit of emotion was required. ... Full Review

The daughter of bigoted, spiteful parents, dismissed as mentally retarded, Amy is meant to be oddly mystical and soulful -- but not a beauty like Weisz. Weisz and Perez are both so dazzling, in fact ... Full Review

"The camera sweeps over the waves curling on the sea, towards a steep cliff and rises to reveal two lone figures on the rugged top: a mother and her small son. ... Full Article

THE surging sea, the barren rocks, Rachel Weisz's full lips and snowy brow form part of the beautiful landscape in Beeban Kidron's pulse-pounder about a misfit village girl and her love for a handsome young foreigner. ... Full Article

Conventional wisdom wouldn't seem to bless the idea of a romantic melodrama adapted from Joseph Conrad by the director of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. ... Full Article