Title:
Five Senses, The
Released: 1999
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 106 min
Country: Canada
Language: English
/ French / Italian
Tagline:
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses. -- Oscar
Wilde
Plot
Summary: Interconnected stories examine
situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented
by a massage therapist (Gabrielle Rose) who is treating
a woman (Molly Parker), while her daughter (Nadia
Litz) accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter
in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (Brendan
Fletcher) (vision), a professional house-cleaner (Daniel
MacIvor) has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker
has lost her sense of taste, and an older man (Phillippe
Volter) is losing his hearing.
Comments:
Quiet
and sensual. An enjoyable quiet movie that examines
people's perceptions of the world and themselves.
Worthy of a watch. I enjoyed Gabrielle Rose's performance.
She was good in "The Sweet Hereafter" and
very engaging in this movie. The rest of the cast
was equally good. I do have a problem with the title.
I kept thinking this character is this sense and this
one is that sense which distracted me from the unfolding
stories. I think a more generic title like "Sense"
would have been better. The ending was unexpected.
Cast
overview:
Molly Parker .... Anna Miller
Gabrielle Rose .... Ruth Seraph
Elize Frances Stolk .... Amy Lee Miller
Nadia Litz .... Rachel Seraph
Mary-Louise Parker .... Rona
Daniel MacIvor .... Robert
Philippe Volter .... Dr. Richard Jacob
Clinton Walker .... Carl
Astrid Van Wieren .... Richard's Patient
Brendan Fletcher .... Rupert
Paul Bettis .... Richard's Doctor
James Allodi .... Justin
Gavin Crawford .... Airport Clerk
Sandi Stahlbrand .... TV Reporter #1
Amanda Soha .... Sylvie
Movie
scenes preview:
Scene #1
featured
actress:
