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Frozen

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Shirley Henderson has cornered the market when it comes to playing the emotionally fragile waif and here she uses her talent to good effect in a small film that punches well above its weight. Frozen is wistful, dreamlike, and solidly unpretentious. Kathy's obsessive search for her missing sister Annie becomes increasingly elegiac as she discovers that Annie disappeared in the `dead ground' between two surveillance cameras. This blind spot becomes a portal into another place, where she glimpses her sister. There are no flashy special effects here, just grey urban landscapes and melancholic shots of the mudflats of Morecombe Bay. In fact describing his movie does little to do it justice as its simple style belies its enigmatic charm. If you have to have car chases and shoot-outs in order to enjoy a movie Frozen is not for you, but if you appreciate a thoughtful study of pain and loss you should enjoy this film.

this is a great story. It's feels as though you don't have answers but you do. If you watch this movie then you need to pay attention to what certain characters say in the beginning and what they say in the end. Piece it all together and viola! you find out what happened to Annie. in the end I was shocked and satisfied with a good movie.

I really don't know what to say about this film other than I found it really odd. I didn't feel as though any plausible answers were given at the end and I was left wondering what the heck it had all been about. Very very odd film.

I sat down to watch this movie. And then it ended. So I thought hard to remember how I spent the last 90 minutes of my life. I remember beautiful and dreadful grey landscapes. Lots of water and bubbles. A doleful, solitary string instrument in the background. The story of a girl trapped between this world and the next because of what happened to her sister, with imagery pretty much crammed into my eyes at every turn until even I was a little lost.

To begin with, Henderson comes off as child-like and clearly insane. You don't know if she's genuine or genuinely schizo. She's truly unconvincing as a girl who suffers and comes across as a little girl lost, or bored, it was hard to tell. Does she need coffee? Does she need a thicker coat, perhaps? Does she need to take a nap? I found the heroine distracting at best and kept wondering, "What IS she doing?" When the actor gets in the way of the story, then you know it's bad acting. The acting was very numb and she didn't garner any sympathy from me.

All the male roles were...non-existent. I know there were men cast in there! Richard Armitage was in there for heaven's sake and though his acting was excellent, as was Roshan Seth's, they were so unmemorable! Hastily introduced and poorly developed, the story line was literally a girl running around for 90 minutes with a few guys in the background.

The ending was really expected. There was no redeeming, her, clearly. But how it came about and how suddenly made me wonder how the heck I got to the end.

I'm into mystery movies however I just didn't get this one, totally lost interest within the first 10 minutes! Sorry I just can't think of something good to say about this movie...

This movie is amazing, really... Shirley Roshan is a wonderfull actress and Richard Armitage too... A strange and beautifull movie!