Beside a good performance for Maia Morgenstern (she was 27 years old and already her huge talent is discernible), nothing else reminds after one and a half hour, but a poor and artificial romantic drama about waiting the lover. The soundtrack - embarrassing.
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7 Reviews
The Devil, Probably
(1977)
Great, but excess of footsteps noise
14 August 2021
No doubt that we are facing a great film, but for me the excess of footsteps noise is a huge drag in enjoying this film. Unfortunately for me, that appears in many other Bresson films. It is not a simple footstep noise, is like some horseshoes in a cathedral that repeats hundreds of times during the film. Ignoring this aspect, it is a great film.
The Wild Pear Tree
(2018)
Once again a great work from Ceylan
4 May 2019
This is an epic about the struggle of a young to enter into the life the way he wants. Trying to publish a book and meanwhile fighting to overpass hes father issues with betting, this is the main line. But allover are some others interesting moments with philosophical discussions camouflaged behind some ordinary dialogs. I note that @ 47:50, on the door of the cabinet there is also the picture of the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran. Maybe too long, but certainly a good art movie.
Lemonade
(I) (2018)
Stereotype
25 October 2018
This film's main goal is to generate emotions, but it tries to do that based on flat characters, poor and predictable action. The characters have no depth, they are unidimensional and complexity has nothing in common with this production.
Purge
(2012)
Another great film based on a great book
10 June 2018
I've read Sofi Oksanen book before seeing the film and for me that's obvious that we have here a great film based on a great book. Usually the historic event crush individual lives and destinies, but sometimes is really amassing how peoples can react so different and how unexpected individual desires mixed up with historical event can generate dramas.
This film also remembered me another one, a Romanian one, "Somewhere in the East", made after Augustin Buzura's novel "Fetele tacerii", part of the subject being related.
The Conversation
(1974)
Extraordinary ability to increase the psychological tension during a film
23 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Without being a specialist in Coppola, I've discovered this production with surprise It's a great work of art by its extraordinary ability to increase the psychological tension during a film. It's not a horror tension like in Hitchcock's "Psycho", nor a professional obsession like in Antonioni's "Blow Up", but something particular which makes from this film a really special one. The acting of Gene Hackman is also at a very high level. He is able to express the transformation of his character, from a strong, lonely secret service worker to the edge of insanity, proving a great talent and a top moment in his career. Without being really a psychological drama, it makes in inner analysis of the main character during his radical transformation, during the loss of control which takes place in a particular manner, linked with his special job.
Sunday at Six
(1966)
Incredible antithesis
20 October 2013
From an in-existent story he made a cinematography masterpiece, from a propaganda linked subject he made an emotional love story, from the core of the communist Romanian period he made a film in which the politic subject is in the last plane. An undercover piece of cinematographic art. To be taken into consideration that this film was made in the same year with the presidential change in Romania, when Ceaușescu replaced Dej. Also to be noted that there is a completely unrelated scene which depicts some legionnaires acting without logic, just to be in a dark light. As the subject is, no doubt, a fake, even that scene has to be seen only as a cinematographic pattern of well done filming.
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