Category Archives: movies

these horses don’t gallop (Film: Ut og stjæle hester / Out Stealing Horses – Hans Petter Moland, 2019)

Posted on November 25, 2019 by admin

Watching movies at a festival such as the Nordic film festival that is currently taking place in several cinematheques in Israel, among which the one in my city sometimes has disadvantages. The second movie (or the next ones!) seen on … Continue reading →

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family crisis (Film: Dronningen / Queen of Hearts – May el-Toukhy, 2019)

Posted on November 24, 2019 by admin

This is the year of family movies, or movies about families. Good movies. The family that is at the center of the Danish film ‘Dronningen‘ or ‘Queen of Hearts‘, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s public award, is in many … Continue reading →

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art and love in difficult times (Film: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu – Céline Sciamma, 2019)

Posted on November 20, 2019 by admin

Feminine and feminist cinema. Is there such a thing? If there is one, I think ‘Portrait de la jeune fille en feu‘, the film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, which received the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film … Continue reading →

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looking for the lost life (Film: Le silencieux – Lino Ventura, 1973)

Posted on November 19, 2019 by admin

I decided to see ‘Le Silencieux‘ especially for Lino Ventura, an actor whom I greatly admired in the 60s and 70s. Specializing in ‘rough’ characters from one side or the other of the law, Ventura played in feature films. action … Continue reading →

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scenes from a modern marriage (Film: Tyhjiö – Aleksi Salmenperä, 2018)

Posted on November 16, 2019 by admin

‘Tyhjio‘ (‘Void’) directed by Aleksi Salmenperä is the second Finnish film we saw at the Nordic film festival in which our local cinematheque participates. I confess that I am quite unfamiliar with this film school, with the notable exception of … Continue reading →

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stir-fry in the sauna (Film: Mestari Cheng – Mika Kaurismäki, 2019)

Posted on November 15, 2019 by admin

‘Mestari Cheng‘, the film of the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki (yes, his brother …), which opened last night at the local cinematheque the Nordic film festival, is one of those films for which as a spectator you cannot refrain from … Continue reading →

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nasty times (Film: Flesh + Blood – Paul Verhoeven, 1985)

Posted on October 21, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven‘s films leave indifferent few of the spectators who dare to watch them. The combination of violence and eroticism that characterizes them has been around for 40 years and is a mark of most of the Dutch director’s films. … Continue reading →

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melodic drama (film: Judy – Renée Zellweger, 2019)

Posted on October 19, 2019 by admin

There is in ‘Judy‘, the film directed by Rupert Goold, a scene that could be worth an Oscar. Renée Zellweger who plays a Judy Garland beyond the peak of her artistic career, prematurely aged and overwhelmed with personal problems, climbs … Continue reading →

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surprising Renoir (documentary: Exhibition on Screen: Renoir – Reviled and Revered – Phil Grabsky, 2016)

Posted on October 18, 2019 by admin

We have the chance to see the films from the ‘Exhibition on Screen’ series at our local cinematheque. Yesterday we had the pleasure not only of watching the documentary ‘Exhibition on Screen: Renoir – Reviled and Revered‘, but also of … Continue reading →

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camera passion (Film: Amator – Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979)

Posted on October 16, 2019 by admin

Political scientists and historians have been debating for four decades why Poland was the first country in Eastern Europe to begin the process of breaking away from the communist bloc. The first of these causes, quite rightly, is the ascension … Continue reading →

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