The 2014 Cannes Film Festival just started on May 14 'th, and will end on May 25 'th. This year's Feature Films jury's president is Jane Campion, the New Zealand director, screenwriter and producer who was nominated for Best Directing and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards held in 1994, and won the Best Screenplay for The Piano, the sensitive drama with Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin (who won an Oscar herself for Best Supporting Actress being only eleven years … [Read more...]
Movies
Movies of all kind from an artistic point of view, reviews or opinions.
The Family
The Family is a dark action comedy directed by the French famous Luc Besson. Besson is lately more a producer than a director, but we can always remember him for Subway, Le Grand Bleu, Nikita, Léon: The Professional, or The Fifth Element. If Quentin Tarantino became of originally reference across movie genres, Luc Besson is highly original before Tarantino. His movies and ideas were adapted in Hollywood for the American public taste. [source] The Family, because of Besson, is considered … [Read more...]
“All Iz Well”
India is an amazing country, as I have already stated in the linked post. I have finally watched these days, a real Bollywood masterpiece, one that has broken the box office record outside India at the time of release, in 2009. Usually it is a matter of tastes regarding this musical tragedies, some of them are really entertaining, others are just boring and stereotypical. Not this one. 3 Idiots is a perfect mix between comedy (it is more of a comedy than a tragedy), drama and music. Actually it … [Read more...]
The Last Castle
Not a big fan of the military in general, nor military life, I have chosen to watch this movie (and respectively to review it) because of James Gandolfini. I have been pleased by the "Art of War" played in The Castle, it was quite entertaining. You know that I don't like to reveal the subject in any review I do, but here, everything is predictable, and I liked the play a lot. The castle itself is a little bit supra realistic and slightly steampunk-ish, but they needed a nice locale, … [Read more...]
The Human Contract
“The Human Contract” seems to be a cookie baked in the Smith family. Jada Pinkett Smith is the writer, director, and actress, Will Smith is an executive producer. It catches the viewer, because it starts almost abruptly in a bar, with the handsome "Julian Wright" (played by “Zero Dark Thirty” and not only, Jason Clarke), in a sort of “light but not so light” flirty conversation with the alluring "Michael" (Paz Vega). The woman seems experienced in all sort of psychological handling, and Julian … [Read more...]
Quills
"Quills" is an extraordinary essay about talent and brilliancy. It doesn't matter that the critics and historians consider the movie historically inaccurate. It is perfectly acted and the ideas are very clearly presented. As the producers said in the year 2000, when the film was released, it was not about the accuracy, "but exploring issues such as censorship, pornography, sex, art, mental illness, and religion." (cf. Wikipedia) [source] - and all the others The movie depicts the period … [Read more...]
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