The Handmail's tale is absolute perfection: the acting, photography and soundtrack enhance the harsh disturbing world they live in. Nothing is there by chance and each Season and Episode portrays the Handmail's suffering as well as their resistance. In fact this patriarchal society which tries to control women, is actually creating an army of empowered red soldiers. I am sure they will not be humiliated and they grow stronger and stronger every time one of them is forced to bend. One last reference to the beautiful palette of the series which is an absolute masterpiece and contributes to highlight the plot.
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In the Mood for Love
(2000)
Unfamiliar angles in red.
22 July 2021
When you think movies can't surprise, you discover WKA's work and it's amazement!
Here's a storyteller whose camera never seizes to suprise us with new angles within sensual warm colours.
Stories of Love, Loneliness, Pain or Joy are never linear despiste their immense simplicity. Just like WKA's camera forcing us to unusual perspectives. One could also mention the beauty of the photography or perfect soundtrack, but still wouldn't be enough. In a word: Masterpiece!
Here's a storyteller whose camera never seizes to suprise us with new angles within sensual warm colours.
Stories of Love, Loneliness, Pain or Joy are never linear despiste their immense simplicity. Just like WKA's camera forcing us to unusual perspectives. One could also mention the beauty of the photography or perfect soundtrack, but still wouldn't be enough. In a word: Masterpiece!
Lisbon Story
(1994)
Lisbon and Madredeus.
22 March 2020
A hymn to cinema and to its power both because of images and sounds, set in the very heart of Lisbon. In its oldest burghs, Lisbon sets out as the supporting actress the background and soundtrack in Wim Wenders's film.
12 Angry Men
(1957)
Reasonable doubt
20 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
12 men locked up for hours in a courtroom. You can feel the intense heat and the tension inside. 12 men deciding on a latin-American boy's life accused of murdering his own father. 12 votes which will, eventually, expose their own lives and inner selves. It masterly puts themselves (ourselves) on trial so many times.
This is a film set in the 50s but with such relevant contemporary significance it is timeless.
Then great genuine performances by Henry Fonda (who could be a gentleman even when he played the bad guy) or Lee Cobb (leaving you speechless at the end)
Marriage Story
(2019)
Adam Driver's greatest moment
5 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Trying to keep my Watchlist updated ASAP till the weekend. Marriage Story was on this list for a while, but I confess I wasn't quite too excited about it. Today it felt I was in the right mood to absorb and embrace this whole intense cinematic experience. And I can only be grateful for that or else I would have most surely have missed the most heartbreaking scene of the year (the couple's harsh quarell) as well as the most beautiful moment conveyed by Adam Driver's voice.
Fractured? Maybe not.
25 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This was my favourite episode of this season so far. The title was so well chosen. It's not just about physical fractures but mainly inside. Is Shaun fractured inside? Maybe not. He just needs to learn that pain, hurt, emotion is part of relationships. Part of the process. Is he fractured? Maybe not as mush.
Parasite
(2019)
Best Film of the year 👏
23 December 2019
It took me while to be able to sit and review this movie. It has been difficult, almost impossible to put down into words anything about it. I truly lacked the right words and was even afraid not to be true to its core.
Here's a film which leaves no one indifferent. It is certainly metaphorical in every aspect: the water that is both a blessing or a catatrophe depending on which side of the social pyramid one stands; the smell inpregnated in old people's clothes which both disgusts and arouses the rich couple; the large window in their house in comparison to the poor family 's basement window.
The question starts with a simple title:"Parasite". Who are they? The ones in the basement, at the bottom of the pyramid? The ones in the middle trying to strive, even if they cannot get rid of the smell? The ones on top of that pyramid who pretend to accept others yet lack total RESPECT?
Or aren't WE all parasites somehow and loose perspective so often? Wasn't a camera leading our eyes all the time?
For the first time in my life I had a feeling of real movement while watching a film. Sometimes I was moving left, right, up or down. Sometimes I was watching. Others I was being watched. The window could be either a screen to the outside world, inside the house. I often felt watched in the movie theatre
Was I the parasite?
If this isn't the Best Film of the year, I don't know what it us.👏👏👏
Joker
(I) (2019)
This decade's masterpiece
6 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
If there are cinematic masterpieces, this is the one! This isn't a mere villain's film. It's an alegory about today's society. Joaquin Phoenix masters the transformation inside a man's mind whose life has been delapidated. The whole soundtrack together with the direction convey these inner dark moments. The stairs, which Arthur finds so hard to climb near the beginning of the film, turn into a stage of his own glorious madness by the end of the film. Don't we all feel a bit of compassion and even empathy for a man who has been nothing but humiliated by the powerful and the rich? Isn't there a bit of the "Arthur" inside each and everyone of us? What will happen when we rise up to our comedy? Isn't this happening already?
Santa Clarita Diet
(2017–2019)
Funniest and most inteligent comedy series I've seen recently
15 July 2019
A masterpiece
6 June 2019
Battle of Bastards
8 March 2019
Tell Your Friends