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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A Piece of Art Oct 28, 2009
By Vicki L. Riechers
"Reading to learn"
The Blue Hour is a true piece of art and story telling. The characters are well developed and the message of the film is brilliant! Enjoy!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A beautiful film Oct 28, 2009
By ENNP
The Blue Hour is a true work of art. The film is captivating, moving and elegant. I highly recommended it.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Eric Nazarian's River Oct 27, 2009
By Mark Arax
The Blue Hour is an easy film to admire. It is a first film by the immensely talented young director Eric Nazarian, a film that, in lesser hands, could have been hobbled by its measly budget (two hundred grand) and incredibly tight schedule (nineteen days.) Yet The Blue Hour rises way above these restraints. It is smart, lush, deeply felt, rendered without a single false moment. I will not delve into the many reasons--the forgotten river, the shadow L.A., inhabitants who occupy the same time and space yet remain alien to each other--that distinguish both the story and its telling. I will only add that in age when the word "indie" is wrenched to mean any number of things (many of them contradictory), The Blue Hour stands out as "indie" film in the truest and most defiant sense.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
The Soul of L.A. Oct 21, 2009
By Jesse Katz
The Los Angeles River--destitute, paved, forsaken--is the cradle of L.A. life. Centuries ago it sustained Native Americans, then lured Spaniards, then finally birthed a metropolis that sprawled and morphed so extravagantly that people forgot where it started from.
The filmmaker Eric Nazarian, in his magnifcent and subtle feature, The Blue Hour, restores the river to its rightful place in the soul of the city. Weaving together four disparate tales along its concrete banks, Nazarian gives us something Hollywood often seems incapable of conjuring: the authentic L.A., the misperceived L.A., the L.A. of ingenuity and survival and heart, the L.A. of the trenches and margins. Through his lens this forlorn body of water is timeless and universal, our common ground. It is the giver and taker of life, an oasis, a temptation, a canvas, a hideout, the wellspring from which all the city's dreams and losses flow. With only a few minutes of dialogue on this hour-and-a-half DVD, The Blue Hour is all about what is left unsaid, the truths that collect like silt in our bones.
Despite operating on a shoestring, Nazarian reels in a surprisingly accomplished cast, extracting performances--including a grieving, and ostensibly Armenian, Alyssa Milano--that defy their popular images. It is easy to see why such proficient actors agreed to put their faith in him. Nazarian has created something gorgeous and haunting, lush and spare, intimate and epic. The Blue Hour aches in all the right places, and offers comfort, a hand, a caress, just when we need it, too.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
WATCH THIS MOVIE NOW!!! Oct 31, 2009
By Paul Ramirez
The Blue Hour is rich in emotion without the clutter of excessive dialogue. The individual stories are moving and relatable to the everyday challenges of life, love and loss. Viewers will find themselves connecting with the characters, among them the artistic teenage girl Happy, whose home life is less than ideal, the parents who've tragically lost their little girl and the elderly man, Humphrey, yearning for the companionship of his wife who has recently died.
The director, Eric Nazarian, draws the viewer in by keeping the film pure - allowing the scenic location of L.A. to provide a powerful backdrop for the individual stories to entwine.
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