The Guitar

Isaach De Bankolé plays a character named "Roscoe", and according to the movie he is named after a small town in upstate New York.

This implies that he's a NY native, though he speaks with a reasonably-thick African accent (the actor is from the Ivory Coast).

But after the first 45 minutes, it went from promise to predictable, from the delivery man to the lesbian affair.

If not, it would probably make you angry. So I would go with my feeling with this one if I was you.

Great film all the locations were real downtown LES spots especially the Antique Shop "Billy's Antiques" and they used the real shop and owner Billy.Also the Everyothers are a great band.

That she is dying and has something from a month to a two to go, was spelt out to her in a professional, perhaps slightly compassionate and yet disengaged tone. The verdict had been handed out, clearly and unambiguously.

I thought that The Guitar was a pretty swell movie. I usually hate movies about people who suddenly find out that they're dying, and then finally start to live their lives when their lives are about to be taken from them.

Just saw this film at the Marin Film Festival. I am still absorbing it.

Adolescent, uninspired movie about a girl who is dying and decides to buy things, kiss girls, and become unbearably shrill.There's no sense of reality here.

Bittersweet and low-key until the fairy-tale ending, The Guitar is, while not exactly a masterpiece, very enjoyable. And the ending, though it does call for a certain "suspension of disbelief", seemed to me both uplifting and fairly funny; especially the way in which Melody acquired her new guitar amp.

For fans of Saffron Burrows, it will be an enjoyable 90-minutes of your time. She does the best with what little material she has to work with and turns in a gutsy, raw performance.