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blood and music (Film: The Red Violin – Francois Girard, 1998)

Posted on June 23, 2013 by admin

This ambitious project realized 15 years ago and directed by Francois Girard uses a not completely new pretext for its story line retracing 300 years of history of a superb violin manufactured at the end of the 17th century, a … Continue reading →

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a French dream success story (Film: Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand, 2011)

Posted on June 19, 2013 by admin

If this story happened in the USA it would have been labelled as the American Dream story. An Italian immigrant comes to the new country with his three kids. A few years later he receives citizenship. The younger of the … Continue reading →

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biography and pamphlet (‘Il Divo’ – Paolo Sorrentino, 2008)

Posted on June 15, 2013 by admin

Biographical films tend to be respectful to the historical figures that they describe. Even when they describe complex and controversial  characters they try to explain and to put in context the motivation of deeds which in the perspective of history … Continue reading →

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the best Tarantino movie not made by Tarantino (Film: ‘True Romance’ – Tony Scott, 1993)

Posted on June 14, 2013 by admin

I believe that there is such a genre called ‘the Tarantino movies’. They have a story which is usually a gangster story, but not necessarily. Men in the story are teenagers or they all have teenagers minds, they are addicted … Continue reading →

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screen and stage (Film: Le prenom – 2012)

Posted on June 9, 2013 by admin

‘Le prenom’ translated in English in the Shakespearean ‘What’s in a Name’ is even more than an adaptation, it is almost filmed theater. Excepting the introduction which is funny but has little to do with the film and the final … Continue reading →

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‘based on a true story’ does not really make a true film (Film: All Good Things – Ryan Gosling, 2010)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by admin

‘All Good Things’ is the only big screen feature film made until now by director Andrew Jarecki, who seems to have been involved previously with documentary movies, and we can feel this. Although he had for this movie at hands … Continue reading →

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moral ambiguilty (Film: The Bow, Kim Ki-duk, 2005)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by admin

‘The Bow’ comes in the work of prolific Kim Ki-duk immediately after a series of three wonderful films – ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring’, ‘Samaritan Girl’ and ‘3-Iron’ and a few year after his other masterpiece ‘The Isle’. … Continue reading →

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fragments of the endless performance of life (Film: Holy Motors – Leo Carax, 2012)

Posted on June 1, 2013 by admin

‘Holy Motors’ is a very unusual film and I am not surprised that some people had a hard time coping with its structure and apparent lack of story. It is much closer in some moments with a piece of video … Continue reading →

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rewind on Star Trek (Film: Star Trek, J. J. Abrams – 2009)

Posted on May 29, 2013 by admin

As everybody is bracing for the second series of the new Star Trek series, I realized this is the right moment to see the first episode which somehow I missed a few years ago. I am a fan of the … Continue reading →

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the distructive power of love (Film: Pozitia copilului – Calin Peter Netzer, 2013)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by admin

With Pozitia Copilului (Child’s Pose)  the Romanian cinema seems to complete a cycle that started almost a decade ago with Moartea Domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu). The path was marked by a number of prizes at important cinema … Continue reading →

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