Mouth to Mouth (2005)

Director:

Alison Murray

Writer:

Alison Murray (writer)

Release Date:

9 May 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Close Your Eyes and Picture the Perfect World

Plot Keywords:

Urination | Humiliation | Mother Daughter Relationship | Teenage Runaway | Male Nudity

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ellen Page	...	Sherry
Natasha Wightman	...	Sherry's Mother Rose
August Diehl	...	Tiger
Beatrice Brown	...	Nancy
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos	...	Mad Ax
Elliot McCabe-Lokos	...	Manson
Diana Greenwood	...	Dog
Eric Thal	...	Harry
Jefferson Guzman	...	Blade
Willy Rachow	...	Scrawny Boy
Christian Näthe	...	Hackler
Jim Sturgess	...	Red
Patrícia Guerreiro	...	Squeegee Girl
Joaquim Horta	...	Cute Guy
Armin Dillenberger	...	Spark Member

Runtime:

USA:101 min | UK:103 min | Canada:98 min

Country:

UK | Germany | Canada

Language:

English | German | Portuguese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | Canada:18A | Greece:K-13

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

MJW Productions

Trivia:

All the cast members really shaved their heads for the film, so the entire movie had to be shot in sequence. Ellen Page walked around with her half her hair shaved off for a full day.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Creating 'Hard Candy' (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Blackest Day

The wrong film in the wrong hands

This film is based on an interesting idea which in the right hands could have been a wonderful film. Its an indie film, of course it is, but I have seen a good few indie films and this really hits rock with the director. I mean Alison Murray, I'm sure she knows a lot about being a teenage dropout but she doesn't know much about making a gripping film.

Its got some pretty good casting, about six of the people cast were okay actors and that includes Ellen Page, it didn't really push her the way a film and a good director should, as as we have all seen - she can do a lot better! The film was shot as though Murray read about every effect you can do with a camera and thought - I'm gonna use them all! It went light for no reason, it didn't accentuate a feeling or to show an emotion, it wasn't intimate or innocent it just was and in my experience, ever shot should be justified, from the first to the very last.

The sound track was good, I'll give you that. And some of it was quite hard hitting, but I find it difficult to believe that I just watched a film where people died in the course of an anarchist group trying to find freedom and I don't care about them. It wasn't believable, no grief, no despair, no anguish. I wasn't reeled in, I didn't feel their pain and so I didn't believe in its reality.

It is that typical film made by someone who wants to tell their 'incredible story' and just got out of art school. It tries to fit too much in to the plot when a good film can focus on both plot and the dimension of the characters. The ending was excruciating and I cant believe I just spent £15 on this film.