Sensation

nosietoes

Hiya,

was just wondering if anyone knows where exactly sensation was shot. It was driving me mad throughout the film. At least there was that to keep occupied. Was fairly disappointed with the film. It reminded me of Garage, but also reminded me what a superior film Garage was.

InchicoreDude

Has anyone seen this?

Started off so promising, but turned into the biggest pile of tripe I have seen in the cinema. I thought it was going to be a genuinely touching story at the start. But it gradually becomes more & more unrealistic.... Entertainment.ie had it at 3.5 stars; Am I missing something about this film?

InchicoreDude

I just posted a new thread about Sensation, sorry I hadnt seen this one.

I dont know where it was shot. It was set in Limerick/Tipperary though

Creamy Goodness

there were a few scenes in Bray and Newtown Mount Kennedy in Co. Wicklow.

johnny_ultimate

Just watched it today and yeah there was quite a few scenes in Bray / NMK as Creamy Goodness points out. The restaurant they go to is in Greystones too (same name and everything, although not sure if its still operating).

As for the film, good intentions but flawed delivery. At first, it seemed to promise an exploration of darker themes and this is one of the very few Irish films to be brutally, painfully honest about the characters' sex lives (however grim they may be). There characters take some interesting turns throughout too, and everyone in the film is deeply flawed in some way and that creates interesting conflicts.

But the tone and plot didn't always work. The main narrative should be a farce, but they play it straight. Its simply too incredible. Kim comments that "this isn't Pretty Woman". But at its worst moments, it most certainly is. It's hard to tell what the point of the whole thing is. The third act is painfully predictable and a cheap way out of a film that promised so much in earlier moments.

Solid performances, mostly, and only infrequently indulges in the cheap rural humour that has marred many an Irish film over the years. But there's a promise here Tom Hall falls short of bringing to fruition.

Outkast_IRE

This was on RTE last week, was watching it and enjoying the first half hour, up to the point where he drowns the kittens, i immediately turned it off theres very little in film these days that would make me do that, but in my opinion it was a very unncessary scene, they had already established that he was basically de-sensitised etc i didnt think it added anything to the film and the fact it basically showed you how to drown kittens was sad, they could of shown him going off with the kittens and returning without them to establish the same thing.