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Christmas with a View (2018)
The only place on Earth where Tesla goes on gas
Well, it is cheap low budget telemovie. Slow, boring, barely romantic. And the cherry on top: Tesla that produces sound of the gasoline car. Looks like the sound mixer never saw an electric car :-(
Red Sparrow (2018)
1 is too generous for this movie
Sorry, I managed only the half of the movie. It is authentic propaganda piece of ***** from the Cold War times. It is beyond bad. It looks like the creators gathered ALL of the clichés about Russia from all times and put them inside the same movie. The whole plot is so unreal that I even do not know where to start!!! Anyway, some "facts" about this alternative universe:
- Famous prima ballerina (with a star salary) lives in a small dirty soviet-style apartment and cannot pay for anything better. Really?
- This prima ballerina, whom a lot of people can recognize, joins the KGusedtoB school. Really? A famous person on the cover operations?
- The bad uncle is bad beyond imagination. Senator Palpitine is an angel comparing to him. He threatens his beloved niece to work for him or else! Really? In general, everyone in KGB is verrrrrry bad.
- The main character is dressed as she would be in Doctor Zhivago. Or they wear some strange robes from 50s during the classes in the KGB school.
- It is dark. It is either winter or night all the time. Or both.
- Everything is in the state of decay; Unless it is a luxurious bar/palace from Stalin times.
- Where are bears on the streets? Everyone knows that there is a least a bear on each street in Moscow;
- Etc, etc, etc
Moskva slezam ne verit (1980)
You cannot imagine how good the life was in USSR!!!
The Movie is splendid.
Well paced, classic filming stile, doesn't look old. All problems are fresh still. A very good example of non-Hollywood movie.
Just look at it like an example of an ordinary life in USSR. No wars, no racial problems, everybody were brothers/sisters, money did not mean a thing (cause everybody had almost the same salary)!!!.Paradise!!!
Russians were sure that they lived in the best country in the world and that everybody abroad are poor exploited people. (You know, after living myself 6 years outside of Russia, I can tell you that they were absolutely right).
You can see Gosha as a sexist, but do not forget, he is like that only on surface. He follows old Russian code of HONOUR.
I REALLY envy those people who lived in the USSR.
Aro Tolbukhin - En la mente del asesino (2002)
The best work of Villaronga
After seeing several movies of Villaronga, I had a pretty clear opinion about him -- he concentrates too much on the personal aspect of the characters, forgetting about a rhythm of the movie. That is why, though having good critics, his movies never caught the broad audience attention. In ARo he follows the same line, but really improved on the rhythm, especially in the end of the movie. Frankly speaking, I slept through the first part, cause though the first part gives necessary information, it is really slow. Nevertheless the second part is absolutely marvelous and makes the whole movie the best movie ever made by Villaronga.
Recommended.