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La Gomera (2019)
Well done, Romania!!
The Whistlers (2019)
An interesting movie directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, with an intriguing subject, a great cast, great music, great camera, great lights, great effects.
A Romanian movie which could have a clean shot for an Oscar (movie in a Foreign language).
Wonderfully played by Catrinel Marlon and Vlad Ivanov, "fresh blood" on the international stage!
Deeply impressed, nine stars without a doubt, much appreciated by Rotten Tomatoes!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sala samobójców. Hejter (2020)
Masterpiece
JAN KOMASA STRIKES AGAIN!!!! The 38 years old Polish Director of CORPUS CHRISTI returned this Spring with a MASTERPIECE, "THE HATER", a movie which is the creation of a genius. The brilliance of the story, of the actors, very young, as young and talented as their Director, of the camera, of the image, the Poetry of this wonderfully done movie renders us speechless. CONGRATULATIONS, Poland!!!
The Wife (2017)
Vanity, thy name is Man!
A writer needs to write, said young Joan...A writer needs to be read, said another female writer voice, frustrated and unsuccessful in the infamous '60s. So it started. The desire to write , to be truly an observer of life as it is, was replaced in Joan's heart and mind by the fear of being small and ordinary. So, she married a nobody man and became his ghostwriter up to the stage of Nobel prize. There she couldn't pretend anylonger that she is only the muse of a great writer, a Nobel winner...No! Her son understood who the real genious in the family is and she, the Mother, could not lie anylonger. The man who took her talent, her books, her Nobel, gave her in return disrespect, indiscreet relations with female fans, walnuts with his autograph offered to women he had sex with...
A story which happens every moment in a corner of this life...THE WIFE is supposed to be just a wife, a nobody at a kitchen table, nourishing kids and a famous husband...Glenn Close is brilliant as always. A movie that deseves an Oscar this year.
Maria Magdalena Biela
Eat Pray Love (2010)
Oh, my God!
In Europe we've heard about this movie and the respective "book-diary" now, in 2016. That says a lot. Elizabeth Gilbert is such a phony that I felt nauseated while trying to read her pages. I've never read something so low (because I reject the USA trash genre "eat pray love"). Well, in a few words: Liz Gilbert preaches about silence, humbleness, searching and finding God, blah, blah, while she makes a fortune out of her lies. She saw blue lights, she met God, she lost God, she suffered, tormented, she "found her word" (OMG!). I could have given her a word to describe her (something similar to what she gave to Rome!): shite. Page by page of shite. But, Gilbert is rich and famous, men cried over her legs, women over her words, so what a hell? She is a smart American woman who knows what she wants and goes for it. God is another story, elsewhere, waiting for when time will come, simply to have a "word". In behalf of Lizabeth Gilbert, I apologies to India, to Mahabharata and Ramayana, Upanishads,to the true believers, who silently pray for the Earth, thinking: "forgive her, Lord, for she does not know what she does".
Room (2015)
A mother's "strong"
A mother and her son, which looks like a girl, live in a room that has no windows, a locked door, and no light other than that coming through an overhead skylight. Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a bright five-year old boy with hair down to his shoulders wakes up every morning saying hello to his universe. He does not greet the sun, the grass, the trees outside, where he could run and laugh and play like a normal five-year old but only to the objects he knows for five years as being "the real world", his world: the lamp, the sink, the plant, the refrigerator. His only friend is a mouse that he feeds, thinking that the mouse also lives in that little world, the only one real for him. Sometimes a man comes over, during the night, and then Jack must sleep in the wardrobe, not to be seen. The relationship mother-son appears to be normal: they cook, dance, laugh, stretch out, read about Alice, mother tells the tale of Monte Cristo. The poverty that surrounds them is not painful. The real pain and anger I felt when Jack could not believe that outside "the room" exists a real world, with real people, and trees, grass, leaves, seasons, snow. Then the reality strikes: captivity. A child born in captivity, because of a madman, a rapist. A story of a child whose life started in a cage having as a talisman his mother love and her tooth, thinking that "his strong" is in his long hair. Real world proves to be scarier than "the room". A movie that should be seen, a story that must be known, a boy that deserves all the awards: Jacob Tremblay.
The Revenant (2015)
Life lesson
I've seen it three times and still I feel the need to watch it once more. "The Revenant" is teaching us a life lesson: "As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe. Keep breathing. When there is a storm, and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability." Alejandro González Iñárritu feels by heart every inch of his conducted orchestra, his painted fresco, his wonderfully talented cast & crew: Iñárritu is the master of this game! Leonardo DiCaprio deserves his long waited Oscar and this movie is indeed a masterpiece of cinematography.
By the Sea (2015)
Below sea level
"Below sea level" that's how I'd call this "bio-video" written, directed, acted, etc, by Angelina Jolie Pitt and her puppy husband. Mélanie Laurent is the only one that saves the ridicule and "faux pas en deux" of Pitt couple. I witnessed the kitschest face of kitsch ever. The worst. I feel sorry for Angelina's marital problems but I don't think / agree that they qualify as a movie subject / drama / ???. I feel sorry for Angelina period. And for Brad Pitt. Indeed, Angelina is a bad woman, as she asks in this so called film. Indeed she destroyed a happy marriage, as Brad Pitt tells her in the same "video" called "By the sea". Couple therapy? Did it work for their marriage? I doubt it. Angelina Jolie managed to suck on all levels and also to drag "her Brad Pitt" with her below sea level. I got angry when Angelina abused Chopin in her kitsch. Really angry. For shame. Emily Dickinson and Chopin don't match Jolie Pitt. What about taking a pause for the cause, Angelina?
The Sound of Music Live (2015)
Simply a joke
I tried (fighting my tears) to watch this "vaudeville" until the end, only to be able to write this comment. An awful attempt to prove that "we can do better"...In my humble opinion I say: when one achieved perfection, why try again? Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are Maria and Captain von Trapp forever in our hearts and cinema. Anything else becomes a sad pale parody. In this third millennium we cannot do better than the 1965 "Sound of Music" and we should not even try. I am curious: would some foul try a remake of "Gone with the wind" or "My fair lady"? Instead of trying to prove better than "the classics", why don't you try something new, people? Why Kara Tointon accepted to humiliate herself being compared against Julie Andrews? Kara's Maria is angry, nervous, frowning, artificial, as if she forgot the words she must sing...The Captain of 2015 version is a caricature, a joke. I am sorry but truth must be told: let the classics BE and go forward, explore your own paths! Otherwise you are just phonies...