Birth (2004 film)

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Birth
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Written by
Produced by
  • Jean-Louis Piel
  • Nick Morris
  • Lizie Gower
Starring
Cinematography Harris Savides
Edited by
  • Sam Sneade
  • Claus Wehlisch
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Production
company
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release dates
  • September 8, 2004 (2004-09-08)(Venice)
  • October 29, 2004 (2004-10-29)(United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million
Box office$23.9 million

Birth is a 2004 American psychological drama film co-written and directed by Jonathan Glazer. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Arliss Howard, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, and Anne Heche. Its plot follows a woman who becomes convinced that her deceased husband Sean is reincarnated as a ten-year-old boy.

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Distributed by New Line Cinema, Birth premiered in competition at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, polarizing critics upon its release and grossing $23.9 million on a budget of $20 million. Kidman was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her performance. The film has been re-evaluated in later years and is considered a masterpiece by some publications.

Plot

Sean and Anna are a married couple living in New York City. At the beginning of the film, Sean is heard lecturing to an unseen audience, explaining that he does not believe in reincarnation. Afterwards, Sean goes jogging, collapses, and dies.

Ten years later, Anna accepts a marriage proposal from her new fiancee, Joseph. When Clifford, Sean's brother, arrives at Anna's engagement party, his wife Clara excuses herself, saying she forgot to wrap a gift. Instead, she buys a replacement after hurriedly burying the original gift while a young boy secretly looks on.

Sometime later, at a party for Anna's mother, the boy sneaks into the apartment and claims to be Sean. At first, Anna dismisses the boy's claim. When Anna receives a letter from him the next day, warning her not to marry Joseph, she realizes the boy truly believes he is her reincarnated husband.

That night, Anna and Joseph discuss the letter. Since the building watchman seems to know the boy and that his name is Sean, Joseph calls to obtain more information. When Sean answers the phone, Joseph rushes downstairs to confront him. He takes him to Sean's father and the three of them order Sean to leave Anna alone. Sean refuses to recant his story and Anna watches Sean collapse in his father's arms.

Sean leaves a message on Anna's answering machine, which her mother overhears. That day at lunch, Anna's mother mentions that Sean wants to meet Anna in the park and that she will know where exactly. Anna hurries to Central Park and finds Sean waiting in the spot where her husband died. He offers to submit to questioning.

Anna's brother-in-law Bob, a doctor, talks to Sean, recording his responses on tape. Sean answers all the questions, even providing intimate details of Anna and Sean's sex life. Sean is brought to Anna's by his mother and he is able to identify parts of the apartment. Everyone except Anna remains doubtful. Anna's family becomes worried, particularly her sister Laura, who treats Sean with contempt.

When Anna misses an appointment with her fiancé to spend time with Sean, Joseph begins feeling worried, not merely about the boy but Anna's odd behavior. His jealousy is made plain when he physically attacks Sean. When Sean runs out, Anna follows him and Sean kisses her on the lips.

Anna seems convinced by the boy's story and asks Clara and Clifford to meet him. Clara encounters Sean at the door and asks him to visit her later. When Sean visits, he brings a backpack full of Anna's love letters to Sean. This package was Clara's spiteful engagement gift, which the boy had secretly unearthed and read the night of the party. Clara had been Sean's lover before his death, and he gave the letters to her unopened as proof of his love. Clara had been jealous that Sean would not leave Anna, but at the last moment abandoned her plan to give Anna the letters. When Clara points out to Sean that if he were really a reincarnation he would have come to her first, Sean runs out, confused.

When Anna finds Sean, she suggests they run away and marry when he is of legal age. He tells Anna that since he loves her, he cannot be the reincarnated Sean. Anna apologizes to Joseph, and they are married at the beach. Sean writes a long letter apologizing to Anna, wondering why he had the delusion of being her husband. Anna wades into the ocean's edge in anguish after the ceremony. Joseph finds her and leads her back, whispering into her ear.

Cast

Production

Director Jonathan Glazer was interested in making a film about "the idea of eternal love" and a "mystery of the heart". [1] While writing the script, he was not interested in making a ghost story or a "paranormal piece". [2] He envisioned a fairy tale structure early on. [3] The initial idea for the film came to him one day when he was in his kitchen: "There's this little kid and he tells a woman he's her dead husband – and he's ten years old." [4] Glazer went to Paris to discuss the idea with French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière at his producer's recommendation. Carrière ended up helping Glazer with the story and acted as a script consultant. [4] The director spent eight months going back and forth to Paris every weekend turning one paragraph into three acts. The script went through 21 drafts as Glazer and co-screenwriter Milo Addica worked on the story. [4] With only a few weeks before principal photography was to begin, the two writers decided to refocus the entire film. Originally, the script was about the boy and they changed it to be about the woman instead. [4] "We aimed to make something robust in which every question leads to another," said Glazer. "I'm not a Buddhist and I don't believe in reincarnation; I don't think I could do a film about it if I did. I was more interested in the idea of eternal love. I wanted to make a mystery, the mystery of the heart." [5]

Actress Nicole Kidman read the screenplay and wanted to do the film when she found out that Glazer was directing, as she loved his previous film, Sexy Beast . [6] She approached the director about doing the film. At first, he resisted because he felt that "her celebrity is so everywhere that I thought it could only hurt the delicate nature of this character". [1] However, he met with Kidman and realized that "she was ready to inhabit the role". [1] The more he talked to Kidman about her character, he would rewrite the script on weekends, tailoring it specifically for her. [3] To show Anna in mourning both externally and internally, Glazer gave her short hair, spare wardrobe, and short, clipped speech. [6] The director explained Anna's appearance as "somebody who had sort of let all glamor go and sexuality go". [7] Kidman said that Glazer instructed her to do small, personal reactions. She found the character to be all-consuming so she could not separate herself from the role. To research for the role, Kidman spoke to two friends who had lost their fathers and they talked about how it still affected them years after. [6]

Addica and Glazer often wrote scenes the day before they were shot, giving them to the actors on the actual day they were shooting. [4]

Reception

Box office

Birth grossed $5.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $18.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $23.9 million. [8] In the United States and Canada, the film opened at number 12 on its opening weekend, grossing $1.3 million from 550 theaters. [9]

Critical response

Birth premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival where its first press screening was greeted with widely reported booing [10] and catcalls. [1] Glazer responded, "People are a bit polarised by it, which is healthy". [1]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A well-mounted production is undermined by a muddled, absurd storyline of questionable taste." [11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [12] In his review for Newsweek , David Ansen wrote, "the script is hooey. Birth is ridiculous, and oddly unforgettable". [13] Michael O'Sullivan, in his review for The Washington Post , wrote, "What I'm not so fond of is the cop-out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity". [14] In his review for the New York Daily News , Jack Mathews called the film, "corny, plodding, implausible and – on occasion – seriously creepy". [15]

However, Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and compared it to Rosemary's Baby saying, "Birth is less sensational and more ominous, and also more intriguing because instead of going for quick thrills, it explores what might really happen if a 10-year-old turned up and said what Sean says". [16] In his review for The New York Times , A. O. Scott praised Nicole Kidman's performance: "Without Ms. Kidman's brilliantly nuanced performance, Birth might feel arch, chilly and a little sadistic, but she gives herself so completely to the role that the film becomes both spellbinding and heartbreaking, a delicate chamber piece with the large, troubled heart of an opera." [17] Birth was placed at 96 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s. [18] Writing in The Guardian in August 2010, film critic David Thomson included the film in his list of "10 lost works of genius". [19]

While the film divided critics and audiences mostly "stayed away" upon release, the reception of the film has been reassessed over the years, [20] with some publications calling it a masterpiece [21] [22] and Kidman's performance recognized as one of the best of her career. [20]

Controversy

The film generated controversy due to a scene wherein Kidman shares a bath with Bright, both apparently naked. [1] In fact, Bright was never naked and the two were never even in the same room during the filming of the bath scene apart from one camera shot, and when this shot happened both wore special clothes that were not visible to the camera. [23] Glazer insists that the scene is not erotic or exploitative. "I can imagine that, before people see it, they might think it was salacious. But I knew it was never going to be that." [1]

At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Kidman addressed the controversy of her character kissing a boy: "It wasn't that I wanted to make a film where I kiss a 10-year-old boy. I wanted to make a film where you understand love." [24] Further controversy occurred at the festival when a journalist described Kidman as a "screen legend", to which her co-star Lauren Bacall replied, "She is a beginner". [24] Kidman downplayed Bacall's remarks and said, "I certainly don't feel like a big star in Hollywood". [24]

Complaints of the film's "cop-out" ending are questioned by Roger Ebert in his review, who notes: "There seem to be two possible explanations for what finally happens, but neither one is consistent with all of the facts." [16]

Accolades

AwardCategorySubjectResult
61st Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion BirthNominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Nicole Kidman Nominated
Critics' Choice Awards Best Young Performer Cameron Bright Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Fantasy Film BirthNominated
Best Actress Nicole KidmanNominated
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Cameron BrightNominated
Gold Derby Awards Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
International Cinephile Society Awards Best Original ScoreAlexandre DesplatWon
Best PictureBirthNominated
Best ActressNicole KidmanNominated
Best Cinematography Harris Savides Nominated
London Film Critics' Circle Awards Actress of the Year Nicole KidmanNominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Original ScoreAlexandre DesplatNominated
Maria Awards Best FilmBirthNominated
Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation – Special Mention Jonathan Glazer Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Original ScoreAlexandre DesplatNominated
Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young ActorCameron BrightNominated

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