While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.... (Full plot summary below)
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While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.
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| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisIt makes for moments of entranced wonder but for tedium as well. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanWhat it lacks in dramatic thrust is made up for in the momentary (and sometimes sustained) glimpses of brilliance. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn old-fashioned type of coming-of-age film shot by the Englishman, Terence Davies. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThough not one of Davies' strongest films, this coming of age tale, set in the American South, has nice, lyrical moments, and is well acted by Gena Rowlands. |
| User ReviewJeffrey ZGena Rowlands awesome (as usual) performance alone makes this movie worth seeing |
| User ReviewDaniel PNeon Bible (1995) ? ?Good crowd. Good money.? ? Bobby Lee (Evangelist) In the ultra-racist, holy-rolling South of the 1940?s, there?s a boy that just doesn?t belong. Unable to fit in with his peers, all he has is his wife-thumping father and his mentally deteriorating mother until Aunt Mae, too old to work the honkey-tonks anymore, comes to live with them. Aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands), a social outcast among the town?s religious zealots, is David's window on the world. The mostly bitter tale unwinds from 15-year old David's (Jacob Tierney - Twist) mind as he rides alone on a train. Director Terence Davies does a good job of staying within the boy?s mind as the scenes are reenacted. As a viewer, watching these events unfold from the perspective of a boy?s tortured soul is a challenge. Everything?s dramatic and over-amplified. The toxic mixture of abuse, intolerance, and religion unfolds in something like a ?stage play musical.' The pace is deliberate with long camera pans and extended scene transitions. The film was both lauded (acting and direction) and disembowled (acting and direction). It may be a bit artsy for some. |
| User ReviewPaul DLETTERBOX. Ultra-ultralenta, pero muy bien lograda en atmósfera y propuesta estética... Y tiene a Gena Rowlands, claro. / Super, superslow, but extremely accomplished atmosphere and aesthetic design... Plus, Gena Rowland's in it, of course. |
| User ReviewPaul KA difficult film. No hopeful narrative arc here, more a sense of continuing harshness and hopelessness as David grows up in his reactionary small town community. Painted in a series of vignettes which build a larger picture of a hard life in the South. Interestingly there are no black faces here, not one. Gena Rowlands owns this movie. |
| User ReviewReece LFor better or worse, The Neon Bible is yet another trip into the childhood of Terence Davies. Although this is a literary adaptation, the story is so similar to his previous work (cruel father, childhood bullying, idealized mother figures, abusive nature of religion) that the film he's made out of the source material is nearly identical to the three that preceded it. Unfortunately, it pales by comparison due to a couple of stilted performance, but given that it's a Davies film there are several elements that work wonderfully, particularly his signature stylistic flourishes (an emphasis on windows, symmetrical shots, dream-like movement between scenes, poignantly romantic imagery). While not his best film, there's still enough here to qualify The Neon Bible as a solid reiteration of Davies' previous work that stands on its own, albeit in a less compelling fashion. |
| User ReviewGreg WIf someone asked me to squat on a sea urchin for an hour an a half, I would have gone through less pain. Like a Siberian winter, you just hope you make it to the end. |
