Category Archives: movies

when citizens take arms (Film: Teroristka – Radek Bajgar, 2019)

Posted on August 18, 2019 by admin

The local cinema offers us each year a meeting with Czech cinema in a week that combines films from the Czechoslovak film school of the 1960s with movies recently produced in the Czech Republic. From this year’s selection I chose … Continue reading →

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2 cops in love (Film: Chungking Express – Kar-Wai Wong, 1994)

Posted on August 15, 2019 by admin

Hong Kong is the focus of the news these days, and that was another reason to be very curious to see ‘Chungking Express‘, a film made in 1994, a few years before the start of the process in which Hong … Continue reading →

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verbose and predictable (Film: Late Night – Emma Thompson, 2019)

Posted on August 10, 2019 by admin

Night time TV shows are an American invention, brought to the level of art by the likes of Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman. This is also a very masculine world, there almost were no presenters of such … Continue reading →

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wars of the classes (Film: Parasite – Joon-ho Bong, 2019)

Posted on August 9, 2019 by admin

We’ve only been through the middle of 2019, but I think that I can mark the fact that I experienced the cinema event of the year, or at least one of the important events of the year in movies. This … Continue reading →

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turning the camera on himself (Film: Dolor y gloria – Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)

Posted on August 7, 2019 by admin

‘Dolor y gloria‘ (‘Pain and glory‘) has been described by many viewers and critics as ‘Pedro Almodóvar‘s most personal film’. It is, to me, a slightly strange definition, because all the films of the great directors are to a lesser … Continue reading →

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the fear (Film: ‘HaTzlila’/’The Dive’ – Yona Rozenkier, 2018)

Posted on August 4, 2019 by admin

‘HaTzlila‘ / ‘The Dive‘ is one of those films that has an interesting and significant ‘making of’ history about how the idea was born and how the production was made. Director Yona Rozenkier is at his first film, although he … Continue reading →

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a double soap opera by Geo Saizescu (Film: Iubire elenă – Geo Saizescu, 2012)

Posted on July 28, 2019 by admin

Fans of Romanian cinema and viewers who follow the movies coming from Romania have two good reasons to want to see “Iubire elenă” (“Greek Love”) made in 2012. This was the latest film by Geo Saizescu (1932-2013), a film director … Continue reading →

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one woman, two worlds (Film: Félix & Meira – Maxime Giroux, 2014)

Posted on July 27, 2019 by admin

The theme of the movie ‘Félix & Meira‘ made in 2014 by the Quebecois film director Maxime Giroux may seem unusual to most of the audiences, but it is in fact one of the main themes of Jewish literature and … Continue reading →

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parallel identities (film: Dancing Arabs – Eran Riklis, 2014)

Posted on July 26, 2019 by admin

‘Dancing Arabs‘, the Israeli film made in 2014 by Eran Riklis on a script written by Sayed Kashua adapting his debut novel includes some memorable scenes. One of them, which I do not hesitate to declare brilliant, succeeds in less … Continue reading →

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‘All You Need Is Love’? (Film: Yesterday – Danny Boyle, 2019)

Posted on July 24, 2019 by admin

If they create a category of “best idea for a film” at the Academy Awards, “Yesterday” directed by Danny Boyle would undoubtedly be a formidable competitor this year. The starting point of this movie, which is part of the wave … Continue reading →

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