Three Days of Rain

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04/09/2011 A grimly hypnotic mood piece -- where characters' blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky yet overly familiar riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes). See more 09/20/2010 about as real as fiction gets. depressing, of course...but kinda fascinating. See more 01/26/2010 It looks like its going to have a great ending and I liked it... but it's not so kinda dissapointing. See more 03/22/2008 This is a very loosely structured vignette (I feel sore actually calling it that), which follows six stories through three days in rainy Cleveland. The DVD jacket made some intensely strong connections between this film and two, I repeat, two of the TOP 5 films of all time. I commend New Light Entertainment and Radio London Films for having the balls to make comparisons to "Magnolia", "American Beauty", and "Crash". My bias with easily falling in love with vignettes may be broken by this film... or maybe the logical reality that not every vignette ever made will be WELL made. The film is scored, rather strangely, with a continuous, melodic jazz arrangement. I will admit this movie has two gifted actors who were in "Magnolia", and it is correctly noted as being "in the tradition of Magnolia". What I simply cannot agree with is the critic from Film Monthly claiming it is a "natural successor to American Beauty". Seriously? ... Just because it rains in two movies doesn't make them comparable. The funny thing about these stories is they don't really line up in logical cohesiveness. I mean, yeah, they're mostly sad or challenging, which is an unofficial requirement, but in other films, there is a shady thread connecting them with a beautiful, painful sense of realism. The issue with these characters, is we JUST DON'T CARE. You cannot make an effective vignette if the audience could care less about the actions that befall the characters. The fault for this, I'm afraid, lies with both the director and the actors. All in all, "Three Days of Rain" is not a total disaster, but as far as vignettes go- it echoes a tropical storm named Katrina. See more 03/20/2008 It just brought attention to the lowly, forgotten, and sometimes despised. See more 02/18/2008 This was interesting. Sort of. I'd hoped for Crash likeness, but got nothing like it. I hoped for inspiration, some kind of lovable character, something that represented people, but got a short story in visual form.. which very often doesn't work. More attention to adapting the stories would have been good, and some more attention to the characters would have been good too. See more Read all reviews

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