Documentary Review:Nostalgia For the Light
Tweet “We are all made of stars “ Nostalgia for the Light/Nostalgia de la luz Director: Patricio Guzmán,Writer: Patricio Guzmán Once in a while comes a movie which with its subject matter and sensitivity could move the hardest of souls. It engages you with a power over your senses and touches every inch of your skin.It...
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Documentary Review:Nostalgia For the Light
Once in a while comes a movie which with its subject matter and sensitivity could move the hardest of souls. It engages you with a power over your senses and touches every inch of your skin.It engulfs you like a translucent rain. At that point it becomes more than a film.
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“The World According to Ion B” : Documentary review
Director: Alexander Nanau ,An HBO Romania presentation.
Here is a real life pauper to prince story:Ion Barladeanu was a homeless man until 2008 ,living in a dumpster in Bucharest. He was also perpetually drunk. But he was also a collage artist who created work in the basement of his garbage dumpster from discarded magazines. Today his works are placed among the best including Andy Warhol,Marcel Duchamp. Angelina Jolie is a fan of his work.
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The Secret in their Eyes (El Secreto de sus Ojos ,Argentina) is a rare instance of genre-bending cinema which manages to effortlessly combine a poignant lovestory with a murder mystery. It does what cinema is meant to do, it grips you, pulls you and challenges your emotions on a number of different levels and even though runs longer than average movies, does not drag at any point and leaves the viewers with a nostalgic feel. A thriller that is powerfully and richly enacted, a genre-busting movie that successfully combines the utmost in romanticism with the utmost in realism.
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Olivier Assayas
CARLOS: Movie Review
Directed by: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Edgar Ramírez,Alexander Scheer,Nora von Waldstätten,Ahmad Kaabour,Christoph Bach,Susanne Wuest,Anna Thalbach,Julia Hummer
It’s not an everyday experience that one gets to label a film “epic” , perhaps prior to even watching it!But at a running time of nearly five and a half hours ,Carlos certainly presents this very, unusual movie experience.Directed by the very talented and eclectic auteur Olivier Assayas, Carlos chronicles the life of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez , a Venezuelan-born leftist revolutionary (nicknamed Carlos) and who, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists on the planet.
I caught up with Assayas at an exclusive screening and though the exchange of his thoughts and experience on the movie was great but the movie left me a bit wanting, neverthless it still makes for a good watch.
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