Cornelia Funke, being "the most influential German woman in the world" according to the authoritative Times, do a service Hollywood remarkable both in form and content work. She wrote a novel - it is almost finished the script for David Lynch, if he had not shot, highly abstract, but, for example, a fantasy for children of preschool age. In the story "Inkheart" Characters from the bad books materialize and penetrate into the dim reality, living the same people the opposite - fall into a fictional dimension in which the fate of each destined to the author-creator. Funke insisted falls his young readers in the regular books, . that, . as a blue box of "Mulholland Drive", . sometimes are not as a source of everyday knowledge, . how a true meeting point of two worlds. And there is this promotion of a culture of reading something really touching, . meaningful and exciting - all, . that adapt to the cinematic language are only a few,
. A pity, but they include the director Iain Softley does not belong in any way. Probably, . with such a task he could not cope by definition: Softley too intelligent, . too focused on a performance the actors and too austere for, . to play in the intellectual and educational charades with the audience, . known to be under his,
. But, . is the main trouble with his paintings, . rather that, . that he should not be the most important thing to rule - for children have to work the same way, . as for adults, . even better. The resulting screening, . despite the impressive list of fantastic actors' names, . impression is halturki; next bezdelushechnogo product for family viewing, . capable prismirit at least a couple of hours particularly spoiled and noisy,
. Because really amazing in the film only a stately and aristocratic Hellen Mirren, which is equally good as a motorcycle in the prologue, and riding a unicorn in the final. From the postmodern jokes - Jennifer Connelly, . appears momentarily in the tiny role of the bride of the hero, Paul Bettany, beautiful actress Sienna Guillory, . plays neurotic clinical little fool, and a colorful villain in the performance of Andy Serkis, . every moment reminiscent of his past Position, . through the rhythmic repetition of syllables of the phrase: "my darling." As for the rest of, . catch the eye even for something that is not to provide any possible,
. The style of painting resembles the grotesque serials for school - the same-meager arsenal of expressive art means, . laced display, . clumsy dialogue, . self-made decorations and, . consequently, . complete lack of spectator interest in intensifi,
. Sometimes the feeling that you were blatantly cheated, because instead of fantasy - boredom and solid clichц?. But pity in this case only for those to whom it was addressed and gray monotonous. It is unlikely that parents will be informed to explain her children, the actor who plays Pylnoruka, indeed married to Auntie, played by Connelly - and this is ridiculous. Similar sense of humor from Softley - nothing else as an excuse in front of bored adults. Another question: how do we explain to children, . Why uncle so mediocre director tells the tale claimed? And it, . as not strange, . answer Cornelia Funke - obviously a talented writer, . more subtle and strange just enough, . how general can be a strange writer, . that when writing his fiction seriously think about the way the actor Brendan Fraser,
. Reply likely to voice a character, Helen Mirren, correctly noted somewhere in the second half of the film, that she would mind only those stories that have a reason to stay only in the pages of the book.