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the enemy is not what we believed (Film: The Beguiled – Nicole Kidman, 2017)

Posted on August 8, 2017 by admin

Director Sofia Coppola has built a name of herself clearly distinct from the one of her illustrious father by describing the world of women, their fears and tragedies, their anxieties and ambiguities, their relation with the world of men and … Continue reading →

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Holocaust – the story of the people who helped (Film: The Zookeeper’s Wife – Jessica Chastain, 2017)

Posted on August 7, 2017 by admin

It’s not easy to make a good fiction movie about the Holocaust. The story was told many times from different perspectives, it has a well known ending and a definite set of tragic victims and of evil characters. Although the … Continue reading →

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summer entertainment (Film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Luc Besson, 2017)

Posted on August 4, 2017 by admin

The first two minutes of Luc Besson‘s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are one of the funniest introductions that I have seen on the big screen in the last few years. After the next 15 minutes I … Continue reading →

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old school cinema (Film: Obsession – Brian De Palma, 1976)

Posted on August 1, 2017 by admin

They do not make films like this one any longer. Usually this sentence when found in the review of a movie is supposed to be appreciative. Not in the case of Brian De Palma‘s Obsession. The film is made in … Continue reading →

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La Grande Nostalgie (Film: La Grande Vadrouille – Louis de Funes, Bourvil, 1966)

Posted on July 29, 2017 by admin

Comedies age. All things age actually, films included, comedies included. Seeing 50 years later a film that you remember having laughed at until falling under the chair (this is a Romanian expression, I hope it’s clear what it means) is … Continue reading →

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when memories change us (Film: The Sense of an Ending – Ristesh Batra, 2017)

Posted on July 29, 2017 by admin

‘The Sense of an Ending‘ is quite a demanding film. Its target audience is the mature + age, those who have in their minds and souls enough memories that have had the time to be forgotten or intentionally buried. It … Continue reading →

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‘Bad Planet’ (Film: War for the Planet of Apes – Matt Reeves, 2017)

Posted on July 28, 2017 by admin

‘Planet of the Apes’ generated by now enough big screen and TV series film to be considered a genre or at least a sub-genre by itself. While the original series was playing more in the post-apocalyptic stories space with the … Continue reading →

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feminist spy thriller (Film: Atomic Blonde – Charlize Theron, 2017)

Posted on July 22, 2017 by admin

The name of the film was not enough deterrent to go and watch Atomic Blonde which was brought for an early screening at the cinematheque in my village one day after its world premiere in London. I have no regrets … Continue reading →

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the lion at sunset (Documentary: Ben-Gurion, Epilogue – 2016)

Posted on June 21, 2017 by admin

At a time when peace or at least co-existence near our neighbors seems as remote as ever and when the level of confidence in the political class seems to be at a historical low, it’s quite comforting for us, Israelis, … Continue reading →

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the thrill lasts as long as the call lasts (Film: The Call – Halle Berry, 2013)

Posted on June 20, 2017 by admin

The action thriller The Call which takes place in the Los Angeles area brings to the center of the action a category of people who seldom appear on screens in most of the movies dealing with police work – the … Continue reading →

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