Sonata (2004)

Sadly Over-hyped

Good movie but grossly overrated

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The teenager Megan (Nicole DuPort) is a young woman raised completely isolated and dominated by her deranged and possessive mother, the writer Samantha Fergus (AnnieScott Rogers). Megan lives her life as if it were a fairy tale and without sense of reality, having her education through home schooling with private teachers. When her hormones change her behavior, inclusive with sexuality arisen, she does not have any support from her mother, and she creates an imaginary friend to satisfy her repressed desires and leading mother and daughter to a tragedy."Sonata" is a disturbing, dark and cruel psychological drama, showing the sick relationship of mother and her daughter. The movie is not bad, but the viewer is misguided by the distributor that sells this heavy drama as if it were a horror movie, with a typical cover inducing to a horror movie and certainly disappointing the fans of this genre. Therefore, the target audience is absolutely deceived. Nicole DuPort is perfect in the role of a repressed young woman finding sexuality without any orientation or support. AnnieScott Rogers in some moments exaggerates, but also has a good performance. The introduction of this film, with Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata no. 14 ("Moonlight"), gives a touch of class to this good movie. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Gritos de Horror" ("Screams of Horror")

It's rubbish. More than rubbish. A celluloid turd. Actually, this movie looked like it wasn't made even with film.It does look very cheap. The girl was a good actress, as was the mother slightly, but there was no good characterisation. It is extraordinarily slow-moving, boring and hugely unrewarding. It said it's an 18, but I didn't see anything to constitute it being an 18. I suppose I wanted shock, scares, blood and nastiness, and I didn't get any of that because it was a psychological horror film.But even as a psychological horror film it was pants. The script was awful. It was just bad. Plain bad.Don't be fooled by the cover and watch it. It's awful.

This film was like pulling teeth.Very little happened and each scene just dragged into another. Soap opera acting(apart from the lead girl)and I spent most of the 90 minutes fast forwarding through it. How this film has scored as high as 5/10 is beyond me. Occasionally you unearth a gem with these little known independent films, however this is not it. For supernatural thrillers etc your better off getting The Changeling or any other 70/80 horror.Hire it at your own risk, but you have been warned. There is a lot better out there and films that are entertaining at least, this one couldn't even be classed as that I'm afraid.Almost as appalling as Nutbag

This movie rise a lot of problem for today people time being, roots of this film going back to such masters as Antonioni, Fellini,Tarkovsky,Bergman(Director and author Boris Undorf had a very good teachers). This is a thriller but thriller that force you to think about relations between parents and children, about border between childhood and adult life, about children privacy etc., This is a sort of investigation of existing problem that parents and children face everyday. Author gradually opens for you character of two women, shown how mother could destroy her own child. The biggest role in this movie belongs to the music. It is not much words between the main characters and director find the way to express people fillings. Both main characters give you right impression about conflict that keep you busy all 91 minutes of film.