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feminist horror (film: The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, 2024)

Posted on November 16, 2024 by admin

David Cronenberg and Quentin Tarantino have a heir and her name is Coralie Fargeat. Coralie Fargeat is not afraid to shock. In fact, I think the purpose of her films is to shock. She’s doing it to get attention and … Continue reading →

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twilight of an epoch (film: Un amour de Swann – Volker Schlöndorff, 1984)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by admin

One of the most useless intellectual exercises, in my opinion, is to compare a book and a movie, even if the movie is inspired by the book or is an adaptation. Literature and cinema are as different arts as dance … Continue reading →

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Poirot haunted (film: A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, 2023)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by admin

Kenneth Branagh continues his series of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels and seems to feel quite comfortable in the skin of Hercule Poirot and in the position of director of the films that bring him to the big screen. The … Continue reading →

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for a piece of metal (film: Cross of Iron – Sam Peckinpah, 1977)

Posted on August 24, 2024 by admin

Any good war movie can only be an anti-war movie. This axiom is also confirmed by ‘Cross of Iron‘, the 1977 film by Sam Peckinpah, the only war film by the American director who was a master of western films … Continue reading →

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‘The Master’ of our times (film: Master i Margarita / The Master and Margarita – Michael Lockshin, 2023)

Posted on August 19, 2024 by admin

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel ‘The Master and Margarita’ was written between 1928 and 1940, but the writer never saw it published. The first – censored – version of the book appeared in the USSR in 1966. I guess this is the … Continue reading →

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history as a farce (film: The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, 2017)

Posted on August 16, 2024 by admin

One of the most famous quotes attributed to Karl Marx (who in turn was commenting on Hegel) is the one that claims that history and its personalities repeat themselves twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. … Continue reading →

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a film about courage (film: Tatami – Zar Amir Ebrahimi & Guy Nattiv, 2023)

Posted on July 27, 2024 by admin

We are in the Olympic year and season, and ‘Tatami‘ (2023) directed by Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv is the right movie for this season. It can be said that the (Olympic) spirit of sport and the relationship between … Continue reading →

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the mean streets of London (film: Legend – Brian Helgeland, 2015)

Posted on May 30, 2024 by admin

Brian Helgeland‘s 2015 film ‘Legend‘ is a biopic of the Kray twin brothers, two gangsters who dominated the London underworld from the late 1950s until 1968 when they were both arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison for separate … Continue reading →

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war and love (film: I girasoli – Vittorio De Sica, 1970)

Posted on May 20, 2024 by admin

‘I girasoli‘ (‘Sunflower‘ in the English release), Vittorio De Sica‘s 1970 film, is a film that is impossible to judge outside of its historical context. Actually I should say its historical contexts. The film is a war melodrama, the story … Continue reading →

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a twisted, wonderful, disturbing fairy tale (film: Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)

Posted on February 29, 2024 by admin

I confess that after watching Yorgos Lanthimos‘ previous film – ‘The Favourite’ – I was a bit worried. It was a period film and seemed like evidence of an unwanted (by me) cinematic maturity. I loved in that movie attention … Continue reading →

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