The Nest - DVD

A solid 4 1/2 stars for a great study of character, relationships, and family disintegration in the go-go ‘80s, a boom time when not everyone made it all of the time. It’s the tone, screenplay, cinematography that make it work. Yes, the performances are an integral part of the package, but as with any good movie you don’t watch it to watch the actors act; you watch it for the whole, which is more dependent on the director. Fans of Curaon’s “Roma” will be able to handle “The Nest,” with its static camera that slowly zooms; its fly on the wall point of view with minimal edits, it’s full shots that rarely include close ups. It may be slow and bleak but every scene is freighted with meaning and it never bores; every scene is consequential and adds to the whole. To add to its stripped down approach, the film has no soundtrack. Though plenty of ‘80s music like New Order, The Cure, Bronski Beat, The Psychedlic Furs, and Simply Red show up inside the drama, mostly compliments of the disgruntled daughter.The one star reviewers are probably mostly people for whom this simply isn’t their cup of tea. Like someone who watches a horror film and cries foul because movies shouldn’t do that. If they had more self-awareness, they’d be aware of their aesthetic values and be able to explain in order to enlighten others. But alas, like the main character in the film, they (most of them) know not who they are.

I watched this because I read a glowing review. The reviewer gave this a "Don't Miss" subhead and I believed her. I love every role Carrie Coon has played - most noteworthy Chief Burgle in Fargo - and she's the outspoken woman I looked forward to seeing in The Nest. Jude Law is a consistently unpredictable character in most of his roles which makes him interesting. But their chemistry isn't there as a British husband and an American wife because they have nothing in common. Their attempts to force their own expectations on each other are vivid and unyielding, and so why do they stay together? They're not particularly wrapped up in their children because each is too selfish. He, with his attempts at conning anyone who will listen. She, with her horses and riding instruction. The kids are forced to fend for themselves. Each one of the parents' passions eventually dies and they're left with a hollow existence. It's an attempt at a cautionary tale and I was led on by its underlying sense of doom. Things happen to lead you to believe their Surrey mansion is haunted. I was anticipating them being driven out and back to America by a demon. Nothing like that happens. So we're left feeling let down. Our anticipation fizzles away to nothing. When this happens in a movie I always think something went wrong - a mistake by the director, or some idiot studio boss trampling on the script. Something went wrong with this story line. I said out loud, "THAT can't be the end!" because it felt like the story needed more time. The husband and wife had to either go their own ways, move out of the mansion, find new obsessions, focus on their children...SOMETHING to redeem their lives. This movie needed the Cohen Brothers to give it a powerful conclusion.

This movie was excellent. I couldn't look away from Jude Law and Carrie Coon. They sizzled. They reminded me of Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet in the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road. They weren't quite as good as Dicaprio and Winslet but they were very nearly close. We haven't been treated to this type of art house storytelling since before the pandemic, and I was like a starving woman at a banquet. If you like quality, realistic films with fabulous acting and strong messages about life, values, relationships, and society, then you will enjoy this movie. If you're one of those who are addicted to super heros and sci-fi tech, then it's not your cup of tea. I give it four stars and suggest you check it out.

A miserable movie about people who are miserable or here is a dysfunctional relationship for two hours. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen....and then....finally....the credits. What? Might have been interesting if it showed why these people were so horrible, what motivated their miserableness. But that was not to be. I thought it was going to be a "thriller", after all that is what it said in the description. There was nothing thrilling about it. I thought maybe the story was going to start when the little boy started talking about how creepy the house was, then the mother complaining that the house was changing everyone, but it was just a stupid family drama about people you cannot like, and don't care enough for to hate.

This is a deliciously atmospheric, almost gothic family drama. I say "almost" because the writers never resort to genre tropes or cheap startles, yet the suspense builds from the opening scene. Subtle and unsubtle "gut punches" raise the stakes to the hold-your-breath point as the family begins to self-destruct in earnest. As others have mentioned, the acting is excellent, and the (natural light?) cinematography casts their lives in an appropriately ominous pall.I can't explain all the dismal reviews, unless those folks were looking for a "Gone Girl"-style domestic crime story. The Nest is a realist drama involving a much more common but equally insidious psychological malignancy.On a personal note: The Nest is an exaggerated version of my own marriage, and it was surprisingly cathartic to see someone else navigate a narcissist's implosion ("anti-gaslighting therapy").

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« The Nest » est un film lent et psychologique : autant prévenir pour ceux qui serait tentés de voir le film. Pour autant, il n’en demeure pas moins que ce film est excellent, servi à merveille par les deux acteurs principaux, Carrie Coon et Jude Law.Anatomie de la déliquescence d’un couple et du foyer familial, entre un mari menteur, manipulateur, égoïste et sa femme qui, sans l’air d’y toucher, reste intéressée. Les deux enfants en font les frais. Au-delà du pitch qui n’a rien d’original, la principale force de « The Nest » est d’embarquer le spectateur dans une ambiance de plus en plus oppressante, dans le sillage de ce couple qui n’arrive plus à se supporter.Avec une brillante mise en scène, « The Nest » enferme au fur et à mesure ses personnages dans des cadres plus resserrés, pour mieux souligner une ambiance de plus en plus irrespirable, le couple étant devenu de simples silhouettes dans cette demeure devenu bien trop grande pour eux. La fin laisse place à différentes interprétations à l’issue de l’autodestruction de ce couple, mais là n’est pas le propos du film, qui n’est ni plus ni moins une description froide de l’abandon des espoirs que chacun peut avoir au début d’une relation amoureuse.

C'est l'histoire d'un jeune militaire qui part à la recherche de son frère aîné rejeté du foyer familial lorsque lui était encore enfant et qui découvre un univers totalement à l'opposé du sien de marginaux, dans lequel il va se faire un "nid" et se découvrir à défaut de retrouver ce frère qu'il se met à comprendre. C'est une mini série (4 épisodes) jolie et mélancolique et surtout extrêmement bien jouée par de jeunes acteurs criants de vérité à commencer par l'acteur principal. On reste toutefois sur sa faim, cette série aurait mérité d'autres développement, mais elle vaut la peine d'être regardée..

Épisode court et sans interet

One of the best Films of 2020! Highly recommended.