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6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Let's start 2013 list with Bong Joon-ho, at the time it was already a well known director basically everywhere, with Barking Dogs never Bite, Memories of a Murder Mother and most of all The Host which immediately became worldwide popular.
Snowpiercer was another well deserved success, also featuring Hollywood stars. and projected the director to a real status among the black-humor authors.
The movie is super entertaining, a gold amongst action genre and tbh I have a thing for frost settings. After 10 years Snowpiercer stand very well the test of time, and influenced plenty of films and tv series, some of them still in development.
7 months ago
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Guilty pleasure of mine, I find it one of the most interesting movies of 2017, and I consider it underrated.
I liked the performances of the various actors/characters, the escalation from false kindness to the social tension among them.
I think the script and direction were good too, cause the tone it's mostly not loud, almost delicate but that's the real face of the hypocrisy that permeates the villa where it all takes place.
The movie was made and came out at certain time, while some infamous and controversial things happened (Cecil the lion etc) so even if the pellicula is not a political statement of globally outstanding themes, what it addresses is handled with great efficency.
7 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm generally not a fan of historical dramas, I have something not cool for those dresses, forced 'old' atmosphere and way of talking, but this movie was not about them, it has a solid plot and the epic vibe of the story helped making all more engaging.
Mads Mikkelsen has the main role here, and that is a blessing for the movie. What I really like about him is something every good actor (and every good 'worker' in general) should have and do, a constant self-improving attitude doing his job.
He has a brilliant career filled with awards (a Cรฉsar among them) but when I see him on the screen I always feel he's trying to learn more and do better as an actor.
7 months, 2 weeks ago
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7 months, 2 weeks ago
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"You should see this movie, it's about Nan Goldin her activism, it's directed by a very good documentarist and of course it was huge at Venice" told me an artist-friend of mine.
It's good film about this great living photographer, it's true but I also found it to be a very powerful means of expressing her voice and spreading awareness about a serious social problem that it was like an elephant in the room.
I was already an admirer of Nan Golding as an artist, but now I really realized the fact she's great as a person and this same reason influenced and boosted her talent. Her struggle, her consciousness, her soul.
She IS HUGE and this 'portrait' made by Laura Poitras was really on point.
It left me just with a question: imagine the impact of this film if it was about a MALE popular artist made by a MALE big director.
There's still glass ceiling to break... That's for sure.
7 months, 3 weeks ago