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troubled motherhoods (film: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021)

Posted on April 18, 2022 by admin

Maggie Gyllenhaal, an actress that I really like, now joins the respectable gallery of actors who pass on the other side of the camera and become directors. I am even happier to see that her debut film, both as a … Continue reading →

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small is the future (film: Downsizing – Alexander Payne, 2017)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by admin

Whenever I have a hard time to categorize a film in a certain genre, the reasons can be very good or very bad. Sometimes it’s one of those original and inventive films that escapes the patterns imposed by film critics. … Continue reading →

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history lesson (film: Le souper – Edouard Molinaro, 1992)

Posted on April 15, 2022 by admin

Who makes the history? How, when and where are made the great decisions that decide the fate of countries, nations, individuals? These questions, which historians and philosophers have asked and debated fiercely for centuries, are elegantly answered in ‘Le souper‘, … Continue reading →

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an undeserved rehabilitation (film: The Exception – David Leveaux, 2016)

Posted on April 14, 2022 by admin

‘The Exception‘, the 2016 late debut and by now the only feature film ever made by theater director David Leveaux, is based on a novel written by Alan Judd, whose hero is Wilhelm II, the dethroned kaiser of Germany, in … Continue reading →

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flying low (film: The Batman – Matt Reeves, 2022)

Posted on April 9, 2022 by admin

I’m not a fan of movies inspired by comics. The Marvel universe and the other parallel imaginary universes do not overwhelm or concern me. I use to judge movies as they are, and I believe that any cinematic genre provides … Continue reading →

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this bubble lost air (film: The Bubble – Judd Apatow, 2022)

Posted on April 7, 2022 by admin

‘The Bubble‘, the comedy that Netflix launched on April 1st of this year, directed and co-written by Judd Apatow had all the prerequisites to be a blockbuster. It starts from an excellent idea, refers directly in the satirical register to … Continue reading →

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stylish and cold (film: The Tragedy of Macbeth – Joel Coen, 2021)

Posted on March 27, 2022 by admin

How many times has was Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedie of Macbeth’ adapted to screen? This is a question that even the most knowledgeable experts in the history of cinema will not be able to answer exactly. What is dully documented is … Continue reading →

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love, pain and Chekhov (film: Drive My Car – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021)

Posted on March 24, 2022 by admin

‘Drive my Car’ by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a complex and elegiac film about love and mourning, about art as a means of relieving personal trauma, about responsibility and about the persistence of pain. Well-written and fine acted, it … Continue reading →

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nightmare, innocence and nostalgia (film: Belfast – Kenneth Branagh, 2021)

Posted on March 23, 2022 by admin

‘Belfast‘, Kenneth Branagh‘s film, brings to the screen the story of one of those places which were and are too many on our planet. A place where families lived together for a long time sharing joys and challenges, where children … Continue reading →

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magic and quackery (film: Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Torro, 2021)

Posted on March 19, 2022 by admin

Bradley Cooper is fascinating in ‘Nightmare Alley‘, Guillermo del Toro‘s film, a screen adaptation of a 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham and a remake of a 1947 film. The actor who made his name in roles in good-feeling movies … Continue reading →

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