The Inner Life of Martin Frost

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01/03/2011 No me gustó del todo, de hecho creo que 2 estrellas y media es mucho. Sin fuerza, sin grandes actuaciones; hay conceptos entregados que simulan ser interesantes, pero que más da, al final se pierden en una historia sin pies ni cabeza. See more 11/20/2010 Martin Frost retreats to his friends' up-state cottage, and as a story comes upon him, he falls for a beautiful, mysterious woman. But when he finishes writing his story, she dies, and she miraculously comes back to life when he burns the only copy of the story. Together they must work out how to trick the hidden "muse gods" so that they can live together. This is the plot of <i>The Inner Life of Martin Frost</i>, and like most of Auster's plots, it sounds simple to the point of banal, magical to the point that it defies suspension of disbelief. But these criticisms underestimate the feeling of an Auster story. His work rises organically out of the characters, seemingly created by the characters instead of their author. And this is the point of the film. Do we create our lives, or are the events that shape us brought upon us? This theme is similar to his novel <i>The Travels in the Scriptorium</i>, which includes cameos by characters in his other books. Likewise, the film explores the relationship between an artist and his art. In <i>Smoke</i> Thomas responds to the story of Bakhtin smoking his book by saying, "No writer would do that." Apparently Martin Frost would. The question is would an artist sacrifice his art for his life? Auster says yes, but his eventual obsession with Claire and when he tries to turn her into art, we wonder if that "yes" is definitive. Not many people on Flixster, including critics, liked this film, but fans of Paul Auster's fiction and existential, allegorical stories will be like pigs in shit. See more 08/01/2010 A bit clunky... Michael Imperioli is very good in it, though. See more 04/30/2010 I thought that it was beautiful. That kind of love is unreal. It was whimsical, sad, loveing, and happy all at once. David Thewlis was wonderful. I can't help but watching it over and over again. See more 09/20/2009 8/10 - Curiosament acabava de llegir "Viajes por el Scriptorium" del mateix Paul Auster que també fa una metàfora sobre la creació artística (literària en aquest cas). L'artista i el seu món. I una encantador Irène Jacob See more 08/12/2009 A writer holed up alone in a country house to finish a book suddenly finds hes not alone when a strange woman appears. We are supposed to be curious who the woman is, where she came from and how she is influencing his story. Instead you think, what a load of intelectual, art house wank! See more Read all reviews

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