bernard_danino Reviews

I'll Find You (2019)

Painful to watch

[2/10 · 21 September 2023]

To use such a dark period, the holocaust, the war, as a background to a romantic story worthy of a photo novel for brainless young girls is at best out of touch, at worse a calculated attempt to depict this horrible period and the crimes involving Germans and Poles alike as not so grave. See, they got concerts at Auschwitz, a happy ending, and everything is squeaky clean. I felt uneasy watching it. This kind of exercise rewriting history have been seen a lot lately on behalf of the countries trying to clean up their image. I am not saying they should dwell on it, simply don't use such a background for simplistic romantic stories only to add drama at the expense of real suffering.

Stillwater (2021)

Why the political agenda?

[6/10 · 2 February 2022]

The movie is ok, but why they had to shove the Trump bashing, caricatural French racist and lgbt cliché down our throats? It was totally not called for as it was beside the point.

A Perfect Planet: Humans (2021) Season 1, Episode 5

Biased and political

[1/10 · 20 July 2021]

BBC just can't help it. They have to make everything political. Even nature documentaries. Better see this episode on mute.

The Winter War (1989)

Pyrotechnics don't make a movie

[4/10 · 13 November 2020]

No one to root for even after 3+ hours. Shallow from beginning to end.

Roger Waters - Us + Them (2019)

Strong warning: very subversive

[1/10 · 6 October 2020]

Well, what can I say... let's go over the pros quickly. Technically the BD is irreproachable. The picture quality is pristine, not 4k HDR but still. The animations are great "technically". The soundtrack is wonderous, I mean a concert in Atmos is so rare, and the mix is top notch. That's it for the pros. Now let's get to the content. Oh boy, everybody knows what a MF and a SB Roger is. This has been covered by and large for many generations. It is funny to see him shout at his sheepish audience "we don't need no thought control" when all he does is brainwashing them with blatant subversive messages, again and again. I would warn my kids very strongly and prepare them thoroughly before I'd let them attend such a show. That's like a training camp for Antifa. The whole show reeks of the most brainless leftism there is. You can't even concentrate on the music for 2 minutes without being bombarded by subliminal messages or more obvious ones. This guy just instill hatred and reverts all common values upside down, and everybody's cheering. My god this is not very promising for the coming generations.......

The Family Man (2000)

Can't have enough of it

[10/10 · 8 October 2019]

Every time I feel I need a shot of warmth, feelings, a stir, I put that movie. It never ever failed me. I have seen this movie called a masterpiece or whatever but to me it has become my awakening fix in this dull life.