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identity games (film: Aru otoko /A Man – Kei Ishikawa, 2022)

Posted on February 25, 2023 by admin

‘A Man‘ (original title is ‘Aru otoko‘), the 2022 film directed by Kei Ishikawa, is a Japanese film with an European flavor. It is a detective mystery with many twists and turns, which demands the permanent attention of the viewers … Continue reading →

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three stories in one good movie (film: Nocturnal Animals – Tom Ford, 2016)

Posted on February 8, 2023 by admin

‘Nocturnal Animals‘ (2016) directed and written by Tom Ford (adaptation of a novel by Austin Wright) is one of the smartest, best written and well executed films of the last decade, a film that I watched with great delay. I … Continue reading →

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between Hitchcock and James Bond (film: Arabesque – Stanley Donen, 1966)

Posted on February 7, 2023 by admin

‘Arabesque‘ (1966) was produced and directed by Stanley Donen for Universal studios, but it belongs to the director’s ‘English period’, i.e. the decade in which Donen crossed the Atlantic the opposite way to that of Hitchcock and settled in England … Continue reading →

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between naturalistic and noir thriller (film: Thérèse Raquin – Marcel Carné, 1953)

Posted on February 10, 2022 by admin

‘Thérèse Raquin‘ (1953) (English title – ‘The Adultress‘) is Marcel Carné‘s third post-Prévert film. Connoisseur film fans consider it his latest remarkable film. It was produced by the famous Hakim brothers. Even though Jacques Prévert no longer wrote his screenplays … Continue reading →

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