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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Digiview Entertainment
Salesrank: 209549
Released: July 7, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Eliza's Horoscope is a slice of reality seen through the eyes of an eccentric and spiritual personality, struggling to find meaning in her life.A young and dashing Tommy Lee Jones stars.
Eliza's Horoscope [Slim Case] Reviews:
The fault lies not in our stars, but in our script 
2009-11-26 - DIGIVIEW's slimline cased DVDs feature unrestored public domain films that have no subtitles or extras beyond plot synopses on their back covers. As with all such bargain brands, dubs are "best available source" and can vary from very good to only fair. Audio levels are however some of the highest you'll find, which makes these ideal for laptop PC or portable disc player watching.
Richard Manuel, keyboardist for The Band is typecast in ELIZA'S HOROSCOPE (1975) as a hippieish composer.
The main character is an eccentric 18-year-old girl with a troubled past who consults Rose Quong (same), an ancient Chinese astrologer living in a Montreal tenement building. While waiting for her predicted true love to appear, Eliza (Elizabeth Moorman) rooms temporarily in this same dank flop house with Lila (Lila Kedrova), a 50-ish former white-faced pantomimist.
One of their neighbors is the anarchistic Indian, Tommy Lee (Jones). When not walking construction girders or drinking with his buddies, Tommy plots to dynamite a nearby bridge as a form of Native protest. He's attracted to Eliza from first sight and she does sleep with him occasionally, but the girl has her heart set on marrying a wealthy man.
Through a variety of outlandish costume and make-up changes over the course of ten days, Eliza meets a number of well-off weirdos. One of her new friends is a home movie fanatic who owns a vulgar life-sized centaur statue. During another episode, she falls in with a creepy cult that combines baptism and devil worship with peyote-laced baccanalian orgies.
An odd editing technique is persistently used here. It's best described as 'visual yips'. Often insignificant moments repeat themselves like a cracked 78, even as the audio continues along smoothly. The end result is more annoying than artistic or disorienting. Most interesting is Elmo Peeler's bare bones music score, a gently melancholy soundtrack in this, his only motion picture.
Mysticism practitioners, entrenched and/or latter-day hippies, plus fans of nearly unfathomable cinematic symbolism will find much to like within Canadian-made "Eliza's Horoscope." For the rest of us however this one's slow going at best. Try seeing it in a non-sober state.
A Touch of Fantacy 
2009-09-14 - I have to agree, with most of the other's users comments. It was a bit confusing, and it helped reading their comments. I personally, as you can see, from what I usually buy, dramas, cerebral movies, was kind of lost with this one. I know this isn't much of a review, but it was great seeing a very young Tommy Lee Jones
I know this doesn't have anything to do with this movie, but for fantasy, I really enjoyed "Skellig" which was actually a children's book and then movie. The actor who portrayed "Skellig", Tim Roth was excellent.
Eliza's Horoscope has to do with Indian culture, mysticism (which I usually enjoy) and death. All in all, I was a bit lost.
