3 Needles ( Three Needles )

3 Needles (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Three Needles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Thom Fitzgerald

Written By:
Thom Fitzgerald

Actors:
Mabel Adams ..... Nahmnru, the African Grandmother
Asckt ..... Tea Picker
Shawn Ashmore ..... Denys, the Porn Actor
Caroline Aspirot ..... Stripper
Nontombi Bovana ..... Grandchild
Rob Burns ..... Broker
Stockard Channing ..... Olive Cowie, the Porn Actor's Mother
Chin Han ..... Soldier Xuan
Tanabadee Chokpikultong ..... Tong Sam, the Rice Farmer
Yotaka Cheukaew ..... Qi, the Rice Farmer's Daughter (as Yotaka Chorkreaw)
Eric Codana ..... Abakeweta
Catherine Colvey ..... Clara the Novice's Mother (scenes deleted)
Kathryn Costello ..... Tourist
Steven Crowder ..... Depanneur Manager
Douglas Cwaba ..... Hermit

Synopsis:

Had it taken a more hard-headed approach, "3 Needles," an ambitious, frustrating Canadian film that examines the AIDS epidemic on three continents, might have been to the AIDS epidemic what "Traffic" was to the drug trade. Its moony poeticism is underscored by the sporadic narration of Olympia Dukakis, who plays a nun in the last of the movie's three stories. Her character, Sister Hilde, a missionary working in South Africa, delivers the movie's summary benediction: a rambling, eccentric message from the great beyond that makes the film's closing note of cosmic compassion ring painfully flat. Before that, the tone of the movie gyrates wildly: mystical one minute, smirking with a weird gallows humor the next. But when it bothers to screw in the nuts and bolts of its vignettes, "3 Needles" evokes a sorrowful vision of the world in which AIDS (the word is never heard in the film) advances because of human frailty. The film was written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald ("The Hanging Garden"), a New York-born filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 April, 2008.

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