Brick (2006)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 8, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Snap Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Feature Commentary - Cast & Filmmakers
- Deleted Scenes
- Extended Scenes
- Featurette - Casting The Roles
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Reviews
Whatever it is, wherever it is, whenever it is, it's not remotely like anything else out there.
Brick exemplifies the difference between a cinematic talent show and mere karaoke.
the school's cliques, cants and "class" politics are shown to be as amoral and impenetrable as any criminal netherworld dreamt up by Raymond Chandler.
An innovative ride that carries the viewer into a world familiar from genre films and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, yet quite unlike anything we've seen before.
A refreshing private-eye thriller in a style now widely identified as neo-noi.
A good whodunit with some references to films made in the 1940s.
BRICK announces the arrival of a very unique voice in Rian Johnson.
I can’t really recommend it to anyone, unless it’s one of those lazy video nights and you’re in the mood to experiment.
Exercício de estilo corajoso e eficiente, o filme busca (com sucesso) ambientar sua trama noir em um colégio norte-americano, criando um "detetive" adolescente saído diretamente da forma que gerou Philip Marlowe e Sam Spade.
The teens in Rian Johnson's striking debut feature Brick express themselves in jargon that sounds as if lifted straight from the pages of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
Brick is just an elaborate noir send-up, and an enjoyably kooky one at that
The genre itself is one of my favourites, but I am uninvolved and unmoved by Brick; it's like a teenager dressed in dad's overcoat.
Johnson has mixed together 1940s-style slang and his own jargon to create a lively, imaginative script that keeps the viewer guessing. Hammett would certainly have been pleased...
It's a fun, involving concept, but it tends to weaken the more you think about it.
What's most impressive here isn't the conceit of the premise but the economy of the direction, as when Johnson uses a few simple shots and an off-camera clanging-metal sound effect to cause us to feel the pain of a thug crashing head-first into a pole...
The self-consciously mannered rat-a-tat-tat dialogue also mines a neat overlap between teen slang and noir patois, both of which can be indecipherable to non-initiates.
While Brick is chock-full of the characters, language and imagery of classic noir, it is in fact set among contemporary teenagers. It's a gimmick, but it's a damn fine gimmick.
While it looks to the past for inspiration, Brick is very much a post-modern film of today.
After discovering his girlfriend has been murdered, a high school geek attempts to unravel the mystery in what may be the best teen movie you've ever seen.
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