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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: First Look Pictures
Salesrank: 29296
Released: December 13, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two beautiful sisters lead a very close and remote life in a snow-bound New England mansion. Locked away from society for years the two have lost touch with reality and begin to cook up evil schemes. After luring a young and handsome stranger, Luke, into their web, they begin to seduce him using their otherworldly powers. With 2 sensual girls fawning over his every move, Luke thinks he’s died and gone to heaven. But the sisters’ plan goes terribly wrong when they failed to consider the traumatic powers of lust, deceit, jealousy and betrayal on their own relationship. If "vengeance is a woman scorned", Silence Becomes You delivers a double dose as this love triangle spirals into a psycho-sexual nightmare gone out of control…and somebody is going to get hurt.
Silence Becomes You Reviews:
A "Must-See" for Silverstone Fans 
2009-11-10 - I caught the last 30 minutes of "Silence Becomes You" on cable and was intrigued enough to order the DVD. The DVD would have benefited from a director's commentary as the film is annoyingly vague at times (even to me) and I imagine that most viewers would welcome some clarification.
My favorable first impression was probably a combination of the great production design, the excellent acting for the camera direction, and the understated yet inventive editing. It was filmed in Lithuania in HD video (said to be the first feature film with 100% digital cinematography), a technique that allowed the production staff to see each days rushes immediately so they could make timely rewrite and re-shoot decisions.
"Silence Becomes You" was written and directed by Stephanie Sinclaire, the Associate Artistic Director of the internationally known Kings Head Theatre in London. Her stage background shines through the production as all three of her main characters are given a nice multi-dimensionality. They are all flawed yet to varying degrees sympathetic.
Take the assorted plot summaries and comments about this film with a certain grain of salt. It is about two 20-something half-sisters (if you credit certain statements and make an inference) who are still living together in the estate where they grew up. Alicia Silverstone plays Violet and Sienna Guillory plays Grace.
They have decided that Violet should have a baby and lure a roguish drifter named Luke (Joe Anderson) to the estate for the purpose of getting her pregnant. There is a fourth character, the house, which exercises a considerable hold and influence over the two women. This relationship is represented by frequent memory flashbacks to their father and their childhood. The two young actresses who play them as little girls (most likely chosen for their physical similarity to Silverstone and Guillory) are convincingly directed by Sinclaire and their frequent appearances give the film a lyrical quality.
As in Terrance Mallick's "Days of Heaven" (1978), the four principal characters represent the four elements; earth (the house), water (Violet), fire (Grace), and wind (Luke). The principal dynamic being how the least transitory element holds the three elusive elements in place. Most of the complaints about the film seem to center on Sinclaire's frequent misdirection, the viewer only knows what she wants you to know and when she wants you to know it. There does seem to be vagueness for the sake of vagueness, or at least in the service of introducing complexity to a relatively simple story. The girls have a degree of paranormal skills and there is a strong mental connection between them; qualities that their alchemist father (lead into gold is his metaphor for reproduction) went to great trouble to develop. Sinclaire violates the language of film with this and with her inconsistent flashback techniques; confusing the viewer about what is real, what is mystical, what is a dream, and what is simply a memory. So the film is unable to decide between being a ghost story of a psychological melodrama. Yet in the end all this stuff fits into the final explanation so as long as you get it there is little cause for complaint.
This is a must see for Silverstone fans, by far the best thing she has ever done. Helped by an excellent acting for the camera director and an quality ensemble she is quite impressive. To me her face has always seemed slightly off-balance, making her an excellent fit playing a character that is somewhat off-kilter.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
hmmm, different 
2009-08-18 - There's more than a few reviews out there that rip this film to pieces, but I can't bring myself to join in with that crowd.
Silence Becomes You has its flaws. I won't deny that. It's a movie that sort of feels fake most of the time, like you're watching a play take place, but I might be confusing that with a really good visual presentation. The voice acting and the way the women presented themselves certainly *felt* like I was watching a play.
Anyway, the storyline is about two women who take in a drifter to their HUGE mansion located in the middle of a field (who happens to be a young man around the same age as the women).
He quickly becomes interested in one of the girls much more than the other one, which leads the other young girl to become quite upset and jealous by this. Throughout the film you can sense an increase in jealousy from the girl as she repeatedly stands by and watches make out scenes, and eventually reaches a boiling point... except when that time came, she didn't come across as particularly violent. She just came across as weird, because the movie producers made one weird movie with this one.
The film liked to jump around between all sorts of weird camera angles that dealt with the girls past, and how they were treated by their father. It was rather odd though, and more confusing than anything else.
Still, it wasn't a bad movie. It was just very different. I'm glad I watched it at least.
Practical Magical Sisters! 
2008-09-23 - An occult-magic undercurrent runs through this entire movie.
Beautifully made! Gorgeous colors and costumes caught my eye. Went back later to watch from the beginning and fell in love with the entire movie!
Perfectly cast and wonderful performances by all. A definate must see! Especially to watch the sisters learn their craft while young (via flash-backs), and then use their 'magic' during the movie.
what was so confusing about this?
2008-09-21 - I don't understand why everyone was so confused by this film. I watched it beginning to end and was definately not staring at the screen dumbfounded. If you watched it and you got up a couple times to go to the bathroom or get something to eat and didn't pause it, then yeah, i can see where you might have missed a point somewhere. If you watched it all beginning to end and you didn't get it....you're not very bright. Now don't get me wrong. The movie definately has some aspects i didn't necessarily enjoy. Alicia Silverstone's character aggravates the crap out of me. If you havn't seen it yet and want to be surprised then don't read this because i'm about to ruin everything for you. Basically its 2 reclusive sisters living in a mansion alone. They had a strange upbringing by a crazy alchemist father. Assuming their parent's are dead, they've been left alone and have never really been apart of the real world so they have both remained incredibly childlike, often flashing back to themselves as children. They were taught about telepathy and mind powers from a young age by their father and seem to be able to communicate with each other that way. As adults they come up with a plan to find a man to impregnate one of them. they find Luke(joe anderson) in a bar and bring him home but the plan starts to backfire when Violet(silverstone)falls for him. Her sister, Grace, becomes jealous, feeling like Luke is stealing Violet from her so she seduces Luke to prove he's not that great. Anyway, at some point toward the end Luke starts to fight with Grace while Violet is away and he knocks over a candle into a bunch of oil paints causing a fire. Something explodes and flames engulf Luke, killing him. Earlier in the movie Violet finds she is pregnant but after Luke dies she has a miscarriage in the bath. but then you see a pregnant belly on Grace at the end as a result of her seduction. So at the end, Grace ended up getting the baby instead of Violet and it looks like Violet finally decides to leave home. Luke appears briefly in the passenger seat next to her, i think to show that having met him and with him in her thoughts she now has the courage to leave home and be apart of the world which is what he'd been begging her to do. But her character bothers me because she is the more childish of the 2. Grace is smarter and a bit more selfish and conniving. She is crazy and haunted by their father. Violet is a ditzy and naive in a way that I'm guessing is supposed to be charming but instead is just irritating. She too is haunted by their father but isn't crazy. So there you have it. I rather liked the movie, but I can see where others might not have. The movie is mostly just artsy I think.
I don't know what all these other people are talking about
2008-08-16 - All these bad reviews... I was absolutely spell-bound by this film! I loved it! I will admit that there were questions not answered but that was kind of the point.
All three actors, Alicia, Sienna, and Joe were brilliant. Their characters intertwine in this beautiful way though the personalities are so different.
Alicia Silverstone is Violet, who is almost child-like in her perception of things. She falls in love with a guy very different from her and her love for him slowly causes a riff between herself and her sister.
Sienna Guillory, who plays Grace, is devious, tortured, and I'm pretty sure insane. She seems to be haunted by their past a lot more than Violet. Why? I don't know. The scenes of her by herself are beautifully acted. Her character is very deeply developed and her plans about "Luke" go far beyond Violet's causing all kinds of things.
Joe Anderson plays Luke; the trapped male. He's an "I don't-give-a-damn-about-anything" type of character to begin. But as his attraction to Violet grows, his heart opens up to her and they share what I believe to be a very beautiful love.
The costumes are amazing! Beautiful and very fitting to the tone of the film. I loved everything about this movie and can't wait to watch it again!
