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Irma Vep (2022)
The Magic of the Moving Pictures
Irma Vep is a smart, fun, beautiful to look at series that will transport you. It's definitely for cinephiles, it's absolutely French and it will most certainly put stars in your eyes.
Olivier Assayas is a master and this is his way of paying hommage to his art. Often self-deprecating in a funny albeit touching manner, he reflects on his own life through his alter ego René.
The cast is stellar and Alicia Vikander spearheads it with such grace, that you will invariably develop a crush.
Ignore the bad reviews, watch this unique show. It will bring a few moments of happiness in our dark times.
Mad Men (2007)
So much talent it hurts
Mad men is one of those very rare TV shows that take your breath away. Intensely clever, captivating, beautiful, every single word, every detail is just right. The episodes are real works of art, all of them. Once you get to peak into the lives of Don, Joan, Peggy, Roger and all of the incredibly rich characters you can never get enough. The scenes are so perfect I often pause to look at the details and get blown away by so much attention to every aspect - the gestures, the expressions, the makeup, the hairdos, the clothes, the colors, the furniture...- every scene is composed like a painting. What the team behind this show is doing is creating TV history. I used to think that after the Sopranos I would find everything else mediocre. And then I watched Mad Men. Matthew Weiner is a genius and being part of the two best shows in TV history is no accident. Watch it. TV will never be the same.
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
A massacre. An insult to the fans' intelligence
As a longtime fan of the series I was seriously shocked and appalled that the 4 women that were initially portrayed as intelligent, fun, sexy New Yorkers are shown here as self-obsessed, over- sexed idiots that are not able to travel anywhere without offending the locals and looking ridiculous. The plot of the movie is non-existent. It all looks like a really long compilation of advertorials with not much connection between the scenes. And I am not speaking about the horrible inappropriate styling and the so-old looking women - it would be fine, if they at least were styled and made up properly: Carrie has this weird tan, looks about 10 years older than she actually is and has none of the coolness that made her so likable. Charlotte is losing it and in spite of all the makeup, looks tired and has totally lost her perky personality. Not only Samantha also looks much older than she is thanks to the terrible makeup, but her behavior is erratic and really not consistent with what has been shown in the series. The only one who was more or less OK was Miranda. And don't get me started on the Abu Dhabi stint - the Middle-Eastern country is ridiculed, wrongly portrayed and I frankly think that it is shown in a racist manner. It's a shame, really, that they have taken a social phenomenon and turned it into a shameful mess. I will choose to ignore this movie, pretend I never saw it and keep on watching the series.