Category Archives: movies

the Hollywood Dream (film: Hollywoodism – Simcha Jacobovici, 1998)

Posted on November 23, 2020 by admin

Among the few positive effects of the pandemic I can list the cultural events and virtual festivals that we can access on the Internet and that I would otherwise have hardly or maybe never attended. One of them, the Jewish … Continue reading →

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survival (film: 10 Cloverfield Lane – Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

Posted on November 20, 2020 by admin

If you are not a claustrophobic person and have not become one during this year 2020 and if your escapist entertainments these days include horror movies you can try ‘10 Cloverfield Lane‘ (2016) directed by Dan Trachtenberg. It is the … Continue reading →

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translator, traitor (film: Les traducteurs – Régis Roinsard, 2019)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by admin

Traduttore, traditore: Translator, traitor – this ingenious consonance that seems to have originated from angry Italians who believed that many French translations of Dante betrayed either the beauty or the accuracy of the poet’s work is gaining new meanings in … Continue reading →

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excessive minimalism (film: Police, Adjective – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)

Posted on November 16, 2020 by admin

It took me more than a decade to get to see Corneliu Porumboiu‘s second film, made in 2009, ‘Police, Adjective‘. The film presented and award-winner at Cannes and other important festivals of that year was one of the most representative … Continue reading →

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a world without love (film: Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)

Posted on November 14, 2020 by admin

‘Loveless‘ made in 2017 by Andrey Zvyagintsev is the story of a divorce. Divorce movies often belong to the genre of the melodrama, sometimes they are romantic comedies (especially those that end in reconciliation), or court dramas. One of the … Continue reading →

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first film, interrupted? (film: Supernova – Bartosz Kruhlik, 2019)

Posted on November 13, 2020 by admin

I often see the debut films of the great filmmakers and I notice signs and qualities that indicate the talent that will develop in a wonderful career. ‘Supernova‘, the film written and directed in 2019 by Polish filmmaker Bartosz Kruhlik … Continue reading →

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women liberation (film: United States of Love – Tomasz Wasilewski, 2016)

Posted on November 12, 2020 by admin

The life stories in ‘United States of Love‘ (the original title is ‘Zjednoczone stany milosci‘), the 2016 film by Polish director and screenwriter Tomasz Wasilewski take place in 1990. That was the first year of freedom in Eastern Europe after … Continue reading →

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demons and buried skeletons (film: Demon – Marcin Wrona, 2015)

Posted on November 11, 2020 by admin

The story surrounding the film ‘Demon‘ made in 2015 by Polish director Marcin Wrona is almost as tragic as the story in the film, and builds around it a special aura. The director committed suicide shortly after the premiere, during … Continue reading →

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a beautiful movie about a troubled marriage (film: Arrhytmia – Boris Khlebnikov, 2017)

Posted on November 10, 2020 by admin

The beautiful film ‘Arrhythmia‘ made in 2017 by Boris Khlebnikov reminded me of a brand of Russian (Soviet in fact) cinema that I had kind of forgotten and which I really liked in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Those … Continue reading →

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in the footsteps of Ozu (film: Still Walking – Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008)

Posted on November 9, 2020 by admin

Coincidentally, I viewed ‘Still Walking‘, Hirokazu Koreeda‘s 2008 film the day after viewing ‘Tokyo Story‘, Yasujirô Ozu‘s masterpiece. The two films are made 55 years apart, but they are very close in terms of dealing with the relationships between generations, … Continue reading →

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