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- Actor : Martin Donovan
- Actor : Matt Malloy
- Actor : Merritt Nelson
- Actor : Julie Kessler
- Actor : Mary B. Ward
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Audience Rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Binding : DVD
- Creator : Hal Hartley
- Director : Hal Hartley
- EAN : 9780794201814
- Format : Color
- Format : DVD-Video
- Format : NTSC
- ISBN : 0794201814
- Label : Paradox
- Languages : Original Language: English
- Manufacturer : Paradox
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Number Of Items : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
- Product Group : DVD
- Publisher : Paradox
- Region Code : 1
- Release Date : 2002-10-01
- Running Time : 60
- SKU : 720917532127
- Studio : Paradox
- UPC : 720917532127
Surviving Desire is actually three short films, two of which--"Theory of Achievement" and "Ambition"--demonstrate writer-director Hal Hartley at his most quirky and abstract. They consist mostly of a series of dialogues, presented out of context, about things like Brooklyn real estate, nonlinear art, and contrasting male and female approaches to suicide. Fans of Hartley will enjoy them; newcomers will probably find them baffling. The third film, however--"Surviving Desire," from which the collection takes its title--is one of the most charming pieces Hartley has made. This hour-long story follows Jude (Martin Donovan), a college teacher obsessed with a single paragraph from The Brothers Karamazov, who's fallen in love with Sofie (Mary Ward), one of his students who's writing a short story about him. As the romance plays itself out, philosophical conversations turn into metaphysical Abbott and Costello routines, Jude breaks into spontaneous dance, a rock band in the street serenades a woman in her apartment window--and gradually a rueful and whimsical sense of life and love rises out of Hartley's erratic rhythms. Hartley is an idiosyncratic filmmaker who's not to everyone's taste; this short film is probably an ideal introduction to his work. Some of his movies seem to be working too hard for a sense of poetry and end up feeling stilted, but in "Surviving Desire" all of Hartley's devices take flight. --Bret Fetzer
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