Tag Archives: family drama

a lonely father (film: Everybody’s Fine – Kirk Jones, 2009)

Posted on November 2, 2022 by admin

‘Everybody’s Fine‘, the 2009 American family drama by director Kirk Jones, offers the opportunity for a series of interesting reflections on the passing of cinematic time. Why do some older films seem contemporary, while other films, made a decade or … 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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this is not a game (film: Mikado – Emanuel Parvu, 2021)

Posted on March 4, 2022 by admin

I confess that had to use Google after watching the Romanian film ‘Mikado‘ (2021) directed by Emanuel Parvu to decipher its title. I found out that mikado is a game that I knew as a child under the name ‘Marocco‘ … Continue reading →

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a mother searching for her son (film: Changeling – Clint Eastwood, 2008)

Posted on July 29, 2021 by admin

I hesitated quite a bit before deciding to dedicate 2 hours and 20 minutes of my time to watching Clint Eastwood‘s 2008 movie ‘Changeling‘. One of the reasons is Clint himself, I’m not one of his enthusiastic fans, and every … Continue reading →

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two mothers on an island (film: After the Sunset – Michio Koshikawa, 2019)

Posted on February 25, 2021 by admin

‘After the Sunset‘ (in Japanese ‘Yuhi No Ato‘) directed in 2019 by Michio Koshikawa offers a sincere and direct cinematic experience, which managed to capture my attention and make me feel the emotions and sympathise with the problems of the … Continue reading →

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