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Black Rainbow (1989)

Thriller | 103 minutes
2,89 46 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 103 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Mike Hodges

Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards and Tom Hulce

IMDb score: 6,0 (2.163)

Releasedate: 5 December 1989

Black Rainbow plot

"She has just witnessed a murder that hasn't happened yet."

Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits. Trouble begins to arise when she gives Mary Kuron a message from her husband Tom. Tom isn't dead yet though... with the emphasis on the word "yet". Martha knows not only that he will die, but also who is going to kill him.

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Walter Travis

Gary Wallace

Lloyd Harley

Lieutenant Irving Weinberg

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Zinema (crew films)

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Creepy Jomanda.

This entertaining thriller about a Jomanda-like Arquette has good acting performances and a nice story. Unfortunately, towards the end the film sags a bit and the tension disappears due to the high degree of predictability. The ending is quite a miss and is in stark contrast to the excellent and eerie beginning.

Reasonable.

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yeyo

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After weeks of limiting myself to British cinema, Black Rainbow turned out to be a revelation. I saw it in the BFI, of all places. While British cinema can be quite comical as folklore, American cinema is a 'language'. They don't call Hollywood the dream factory for nothing. Even a seemingly genre film like Black Rainbow offers a cultural compendium through a succession of meaningful images. It enables us to grasp contemporary reality with mystery and imagination. The bottle of bourbon of the alcoholic father, the compartments of the trains, the face of the sinister assassin and the hotels with their Art Deco charm (magical places where you would like to wander into the end of time) are all attributes of a kind of dream world that transcend their mere physical materiality. Through an ingenious game of codes, American cinema has woven a kind of web that offers the potential for endless fascination. Even the whole fortune telling phenomenon, total rubbish of course for the average BFI visitor, is left as it is. Hodgens depicts this in such a way that divination is also seen as a form of expression, a language with codes and expectations, which therefore also conveys a certain beauty. It is therefore with a sad heart that I have to say that Hodges made the film to 'warn' good viewers against the excesses of such quackery and according to The Guardian he even 'predicted' Trump & The Evengalical Right. Oh look, nobody's perfect.

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scorsese

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Nice film about a woman who has contact with the afterlife and travels around with her father to perform. An original and entertaining story and the film has a mysterious atmosphere, especially during the first half. Not everything is worked out equally well (such as the relationship between the woman and the journalist).

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