The Air I Breathe R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 27, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker & Kevin Bacon | |
Performer: | Andy Garcia, Julie Delpy, Clark Gregg & Emile Hirsch | |
Directed by | Jieho Lee | |
Screenwriting by | Jieho Lee & Bob DeRosa | |
Composition by | Marcelo Zavros | |
Produced by | Paul Schiff, Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamano Loquet & Ian Duncan | |
Director of Photography: | Walt Lloyd | |
Executive Production by | Christopher Pratt, Jim Seibel & Bill Johnson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
With any luck, The Air I Breathe should be the last gasp of the faux-Altmanesque school of serendipitous storytelling.
Newsday
Rating: 2.5/5 --
As the plot strands begin to coalesce everything becomes far too overwrought.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Pretentious in its tone, ambitious in its goals, and incompetent in its execution, The Air I Breathe is a polluted mess despite its good intentions.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/5 --
A perfectly awful example of a certain breed of American indie film that brings together a lot of familiar faces for an ensemble drama about...nothing.
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Metromix.com
Your appreciation of this circular plotting will have a great deal to do with how tongue-in-cheek you believe the film is
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New York Theatre Wire
Rating: 1/5 --
Mr. Lee is a former director of Asian music videos, which explains why his debut feature, from the high-octane opening credits to the Marnie-esque ending, is all style and no substance.
Manhattan Movie Magazine
Morosely pretentious.
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Variety
Product Description:
Solid performances from an all-star cast bring this ensemble drama to life. As parallel stories unfold, the viewer discovers unlikely connections between several seemingly unrelated people. Though the film is divided up into segments entitled "Happiness," "Pleasure," "Sorrow," and "Love," the mood is melancholy overall. Splattered with violent acts, THE AIR I BREATHE touches on the aforementioned themes and more, pondering the meaning of life and death through characters who live on the edge and risk everything for the thrill of joy, chance, and escape, even if that means death. The film begins with Forest Whitaker playing a bored and frustrated nine-to-fiver who feels stuck in his routine. After taking a huge risk on a whim and losing it all, the doomed businessman has the unlucky fortune of meeting with Brendan Fraser's character, a numb hit-man who feels no remorse until crossing paths with a troubled pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar). At the center of much of this chaos is Fingers (Andy Garcia), a ruthless villain intent on killing anyone who gets in the way of his success. Though the plot at times feels contrived with all its strategically placed coincidences, writer-director Jieho Lee anchors the film with clever editing and a thoughtful script, which is careful to cover events from multiple points of view. Julie Delpy and Emile Hirsch give dimension to the stories as secondary characters whose actions become central to the plot.