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a fine bilingual and multicultural romantic drama (film: Past Lives – Celine Song, 2023)

Posted on September 20, 2023 by admin

The Chinese zodiac (and the Korean one that is derived from it) has a 12-year cycle, with each year under the sign of one of the animals that successfully passed the legendary test of crossing the river challenged by the … Continue reading →

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the world is more than one room (film: Room – Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)

Posted on September 7, 2023 by admin

‘Room‘, the 2015 film made by Lenny Abrahamson based on a script written by Lenny Abrahamson, who adapted her own novel for the screen can be considered as a sequence of two different films, each about an hour long, with … Continue reading →

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there shall not be two pharaohs (film: Cairo Conspiracy – Tarik Saleh, 2022)

Posted on June 3, 2023 by admin

Tarik Saleh is an Egyptian-born filmmaker living in Sweden. His career is divided between Sweden, Hollywood and productions about Egypt. The latter are made outside the country, including ‘Cairo Conspiracy‘ in which the story takes place in a Cairo whose … Continue reading →

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between sacred and sin (film: Il peccato – Andrey Konchalovskiy, 2019)

Posted on April 22, 2023 by admin

More than half a century before he wrote (in collaboration) and directed ‘Il peccato‘, Andrey Konchalovskiy co-wrote another memorable film about another great Renaissance artist – Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rubliov’ (1966). A year before ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’, the adaptation … Continue reading →

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fighting demons (film: You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

Posted on March 15, 2023 by admin

‘You Were Never Really Here‘, the 2017 film by Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, is a journey into hell. A special hell, one of the most terrible hells, the hell in a man’s mind and soul. The lead hero is played … Continue reading →

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a thriller to rediscover (film: Un homme à abattre – Philippe Condroyer, 1967)

Posted on March 14, 2023 by admin

‘Un homme a abattre‘ (the English distribution title is ‘A Man to Kill‘) is an unjustly forgotten film made in 1967 that deserves to be rediscovered. Its director is Philippe Condroyer, a director who has only three feature films in … Continue reading →

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strangled legality (film: Kurak Günler – Emin Alper, 2022)

Posted on February 17, 2023 by admin

‘Kurak Günler‘ (‘Dry Days’, the English distribution title – inaccurately translated – is ‘Burning Days‘) is the fourth feature film by Turkish director Emin Alper, one of the young and brave directors who continue to make films in Turkey (some … 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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two brothers on a boat (film: Cassandra’s Dream – Woody Allen, 2007)

Posted on February 3, 2023 by admin

Woody Allen‘s films are simple and accessible. Or at least they seem so. This is also the case with the 2007 ‘Cassandra’s Dream‘, which is part of an English series of three films by Allen, which in turn is part … Continue reading →

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power game (film: La Vénus à la fourrure – Roman Polanski, 2013)

Posted on February 2, 2023 by admin

Roman Polanski‘s films are never simple. ‘La Vénus à la fourrure‘ (English title is ‘Venus in furs‘) is the adaptation of a Tony Award winning play by David Ives based on a novel by 19th century Austrian writer Leopold von … Continue reading →

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