Rent (2005): Dir: Chris Columbia / Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin: Depressing yet engaging musical about survival.
The film version of the award winning Broadway musical about bohemians in New York's East Village is hampered by being almost 10 years late in bringing their struggles with life, love, and AIDS to movie audiences. Nevertheless, the music is all there, including the beautiful "Seasons of Love.
Rent is a 2005 musical drama based on the Broadway musical of the same name which came out in 1996 and features the actors who appeared on the show. The film focuses on love,sexuality,AIDs,loss as well as trying to pay for rent and addiction to drugs e.
As I watched rent I took notice of the fact that throughout the film the writer as well as the director made sure the audience understood the connection between renting a place and living life. Throughout the film it shows the audience how life is flailing and temporal just as renting is.
This film sports the talents of some really fine triple threats (actors who can also sing and dance) . But despite that it is one of the absolutely stupidest pieces of entertainment fakery I have seen in years.
I have never seen any stage production of Rent. And, based on this cinematic atrocity, I really don't want to.
It's Christmas Eve, 1989 New York East Village. Mark Cohen (Anthony Rapp) is an aspiring documentary filmmaker.
Such a beautiful movie! I adore the way in which this movie portrays life in a realistic and relatable fashion.
Rent is about to turn into a rant. First off I realize the power of the realism the creator of this went through and that made me want to love it that much more but what I thought the musical was about was a group of free spirits living in a tight knit community where love and creativity flows as quickly as the problems.
