tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17227621554978569282024-03-13T13:38:08.192+01:00CinematographiesMoving images, stories, emotions, characters, narratives, heroes, passion, creativity, inspiration, truth, life are some of what Cinema consists of. We are humbly trying to unfold each and every piece of our souls, curiously trapped in Films. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16116140563107552840noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722762155497856928.post-5067429405167028552016-03-16T15:32:00.000+01:002016-03-16T15:32:33.658+01:00The Lobster (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>With</b>: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Production</b>: Ireland | UK | Greece | France | Netherlands | USA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">People tend to call "weird" what they cannot understand, what they fail to fit into their structured perceptions. Many might have introduced this film to you as the "strangest" they have watched and critics might have written about how absurd and unique it is. Very few people will actually tell you what the film is really about, because very few people will manage to put aside their cinematic conventions and dive into this world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Lobster is more than a strange film; it is pure and instinctive, it awakens those places in your soul you didn't even know were there. In the world Lanthimos built with his images, people who are incapable of finding a partner are sent to The Hotel, an actual hotel where possible partners can be found. People are given a room number, identical outfits and 45 days to find their ideal partner, someone with whom they share a particular natural characteristic, being blind for example. If they fail to do so, they turn into an animal of their own choice for the rest of their lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The residents need to attend the hotel's events, but also be prepared for hunting. That includes going to The Woods, loading tranquilizer weapons and hunting down Loners, people who managed to escape this structured world and live on their own in the wild. If the residents succeed in immobilizing loners, they earn extra days at the hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The film that won the Jury Prize in Cannes this year, Lanthimos first English speaking film, is dealing with a subject cinema loves to visualize; that of pure love. But through a different perspective. How could the world be structured if being alone was a crime? In a society where the inability to find a lover would be punished and the talent to kill lonely people would be rewarded? It must be hard to imagine, but look what Lanthimos has created so far; a seemingly cynical and exaggerated version of reality, where love is the only thing making sense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lanthimos has the unique ability to create realities that make us uncomfortable, just because they dare to tell us honestly what we'd rather ignore. In this case, he visualizes the fear of being lonely, the love that flourishes in any circumstance, the obsession humans have on trying to change each other. His images look structured and senseless at first glance, but they unlock a greater depth on how love is perceived. His vision is simple and decisive, his cinema is more liberating than weird and in its unorthodox form it breaks all conventions, expressing universal truths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I always find it hard to write down my thoughts when it comes to films I love. "The Broken Circle Breakdown" is one of them. This intense Belgian drama took over my consciousness for many days. For its strong narrative and storyline are breathtaking and every shot vibrates out of real life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nominated at the 2014 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film for Belgium, this film made an intense impression worldwide because of its inner strength to narrate a magnificent love story between two earthly creatures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Didier is a musician, specified in the banjo. He sings and plays for a bluegrass band. Elise is a tattoo artist with her own tattoo shop. They fall in love instantly. Their shared love for American music and culture will bring them even closer. Soon their life together begins and they have a daughter. The girl is diagnosed though, with an aggressive type of cancer and their lives change dramatically. We follow the course of their relationship by reversed narration. Pieces of their life appear in front of our eyes in order to understand the depth of their love and all those incidents leading to the present. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The characters evolve gradually through the unfolding of their story, making you fall in love with them without even trying. They have a natural coolness, they way they fall in love, the way they live, singing together on stage, raising their daughter as free as possible. They live absorbed by their strong feelings for each other, a love that seems to grow every day. But cancer decomposes little by little that bond. Suddenly what drew them together sets them apart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Where once was deep love is now replaced by enormous confusion. Didier, a strong-minded atheist finds it difficult to suppress his opinion about the world and religion, while Elise has found a shelter and comfort through it. Their differences in how they see the world have enlarged through their daughter's illness. Elise, a woman full of temperament has found her soulmate in Didier and he feels exactly the same. But how can you fight life's struggles when the ego stands in front of you building a stiff wall?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Felix van Groeningen has created, through magnificent storytelling, a heartbreaking love story, presenting the true power of love. He has adapted skillfully the play "The Broken Circle Breakdown Featuring the Cover-Ups of Alabama" by Mieke Dobbels and Johan Heldenbergh, who is playing the role of Didier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Turist" has an unprecedented tension, but not in the way you expect. It is subtle, hidden, almost invisible tension that changes slowly and gradually the nature of this family's bonds. Disappointment comes with doubt, but mostly with anger when the patriarch of the family denies his own actions, trying to avoid, not only the confrontation with his wife, but also with himself. By facing Ebba's feelings, through the couple's social meetings with friends at the ski resort, Tomas will feel bewildered and falsely accused, trying to bury the incident in an attempt to avoid dealing with his wife, but mostly the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ebba and Tomas will collide harsh, talking endlessly with each other, fighting, trying to find a solution for themselves and their family. You may already think how heavy of a drama this might be, but here is the awesome part of it; its comic and witty cocoon in which everything happens is inevitably amazing. The reactions, the words, the scenes, all are dominated by this tragicomic feeling that raises the film into one of my favorites of 2015. Ruben Östlund's direction is magnetic, cool colored, alienated and engaged at the same time, managing to convey this family's emotional roller coaster with wit and mastery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The essence that this could happen to anyone and the fragility of human relationships in environments like this kept creeping up with me. How would I react, I think. How would he react, I wonder. And how would we get over such a small fraction which grew only to be a humongous gap between us. I wonder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This film takes a deep dive into the dark world of crime and media circus that most human eyes are dangerously attracted to. Its narration is smooth and builds up beautifully with Lou in the spotlight. You witness his initial state and his almost immediate adaptation, like a natural predator, to any circumstances in order to survive. Many have named the film a satire on today's media and a social-ethical comment and I couldn't agree more. Its dramatic and satirical tone match perfectly together, especially by the assistance of the music. But the problem lies on its restlessness in trying to cross its own limits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is not a film about music. It is a film about pure ambition, hard work, perseverance and raw determination. It is magnetic, radical and profound. And thousands of people are delirious about it. I don't blame them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Let's start from scratch. This is the story of Andrew, a 19-year-old ambitious drummer attending one of the most prestigious music schools in the country. He is talented and smart and he knows it. But Andrew has no idea how to socialize. He spends his free time practicing with his drums or watching films with his dad. His only worry is to become the greatest of the greatest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But somehow this works. Especially with the band. They keep on participating in big contests and working as hard as ever. Maybe it is the fear of the students that keeps them going without complaining or probably the fact that he pushes a person till he gets the best out of him. Either way they are aware of his power on them. One word and their possible career is over. They only obey. And the worst? He knows it more than anyone. And he abuses this power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Whiplash" opens a constant and very intense conversation about surpassing any kind of obstacles or difficulties but mostly yourself and your limits in order to accomplish your goals. It is full with competitive attitude, the one necessary for achieving. It is testing your limits like Fletcher is testing his students'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Even though it is Damien Chazelle's debut, he has already shown a craft and ambition that I personally salute. The rigorous rhythm of the film focuses on Andrew and Fletcher's relationship, cutting out all the others, revealing through tight close-ups extraordinary performances by both of his leading actors. J.K. Simmons has just won the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his supreme performance and along with Miles Teller they are marching towards this year's Oscars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Andrew and Fletcher's relationship is purely poisonous and stimulating at the same time. Andrew is craving for Fletcher's recognition, he wants to be the next great jazz drummer and this is his greatest motivation; he desperately needs Fletcher's acceptance. Fletcher sees Andrew's potential and helps him, but with his perverted methods he only play games with him, aiming exclusively to push him harder to the very edge, to his own best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Through constant drumming, a tempo fury and unexpected events rising up to a pure catharsis, "Whiplash" does make the difference. It winks violently at you proving how a big dream is never big enough and no matter the mistakes and disappointments, the delays and drawbacks, if you share this flaming perseverance and determination anything - ANYTHING - is possible. <b>Thank you, Damien Chazelle, for reminding us that. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>1960s, Poland</b>. Anna is a young novitiate nun and about to take her vows. She was brought up by nuns and was nurtured with Christianity. Before she takes the ultimate step she is urged by her superior to visit her last living relative, her aunt. Wanda is a formerly powerful judge of the regime, now an alcoholic and full with guilt. She meets with Anna and unfolds the secret story of her real identity. Anna is Jewish and her name is Ida. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A lost secret family chronicle will be revealed to Anna - now Ida - frustrating her innocent and pure soul. She will decide to follow Walda on a journey of discovering her past, what happened to her parents and why her aunt is so depressed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This poetic depiction of the lost past of Ida guides the narration in a delicate and profound way. The subtle direction, infused with an amazing composition of frames, together with the profound silence offer few clue elements that are mostly hints on where the path of Ida is going in life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ida will be faced with life itself, her choices and dreams, her own destiny. Wanda will be faced with her own past and the guilt she carries for years about choosing the regime instead of her family. Redemption will struggle to find its way through those women's lives and love will unfold again in order to transform the painful past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And yes we are all tired of the constant show-off of the magnetic special effects. Unfortunately we are sick of all this. It is nice to watch but special effects do not make a movie good. Never. Obviously Jackson acknowledges that and is totally tired of hiding it. This type of negligent behavior. Third and deadly mistake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unfortunately it is very hard for me to accept this film as it it, this trilogy as it was promoted and produced. I don't believe in this kind of cinema anymore and even if I indulge myself to many bad guilty pleasures, this was not even close to one of them. It was boring, unsettling, very long and completely far far away from its initial intentions. The first part definitely carries some of the Tolkien spirit and it is the one I enjoyed the most. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is Friday noon. Sandra discovers that she has been "released" by her duties in her work. Unless she manages to convince her fellow colleagues to give up their annual bonuses, at the end of the weekend she will be dismissed. She has "two days and one night" exactly in order to go on this unusual quest. The results can be destructive or constructive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But Sandra is not feeling so good. She has been absent from work a couple of days due to "sickness". All this proves to be extremely hard for her. This cruel dilemma that was put upon all workers is causing her extreme stress. To who wouldn't either way? Standing at people's doors and asking for a chance to keep her job feels like begging to her eyes. With the help of her beloved husband she finds slowly the necessary courage to pursue what she deserves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Belgian Dardenne brothers, known for their usual Cannes presence, having won two times the Palme d'Or (Rosetta - 1999, L'enfant - 2005) and being nominated a couple of times for it - the same for the Grand Prize of the Jury - , including this year for Deux jours, une nuit (2014), they have shown a consistent line of work that is acclaimed but mostly impressive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Their cinema is raw and intense. It always focuses on realism and the socially underprivileged. It is not happy or shiny, it is how life is below the surface, where financial struggles and social absence are everyday obstacles. You never see something overdone or over-shown in their films. No extra sentimentalities, no extra drama. You only see how life really is with its passions and defeats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This nerve-wracking dilemma being put by the boss causes different reactions to people. Some understand, some doubt, others react. It is understandable. What would <b><i>you</i></b> do if you were in their position? Would you give up a bonus that would help you pay some extra expenses, would you sacrifice someone's life for that? Maybe there is no need to do that. Maybe you have already decided. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here, we become witnesses of a society and its broken ethics. Many of those people are also not so privileged, others need the money to get through the year, others to extend their houses. Sandra is kind and submissive. She understands and doesn't put up a fight. Even asking for their vote is already overwhelming for her. But this action, knocking on 10 different people's doors, reveals a full profile of the average modern European. Solidarity is tending to disappear or was it ever there (?) and today's ethics have been shuttered under the enormous burden of the social and financial crisis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sandra might be psychologically weak, but she demonstrates a huge capacity of perseverance, even if she needs to be pushed. She takes small steps towards the accomplishment of her difficult task and understands gradually the importance of defeat. There is the necessity to win this fight, but ultimately it means only one thing; it doesn't matter if you lose or win, you have at least tried. And it seems that Sandra has already given up before this journey even begun. Now she is learning the importance of getting through it. And Marion Cotillard keeps proving her vast acting talent. Her vulnerability and strength at the same time are imposing. </span></div>
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has definitely arrived here in the Netherlands and what is the best
way to get through it? Yes, you got it, movies. So, a nice film, some
warm chocolate (probably wine) and good company are the basics you
need for this winter. Here, I have a list of some of the films I
managed to watch the past week(s). This list can be used as a
suggestion for a film when you don't know what to watch and as an
informative critical piece about films you might have already seen or
planning to – either in the cinemas or at home.
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on the novel of Jack Kerouac, this film unfortunately failed to keep
up with the expectations it raised. It is a road movie (?), but the
constant drunk and sex scenes dominate the meretricious beat
narration. The actors, along with the story, are trapped in nice
shots and seemingly meaningful narration. It tried too hard to
represent the beat generation and to follow that sense of life. OK,
the beats <i>were</i> using drugs and <i>were </i>experimenting in
all levels, but this film wanted to show too much of it, becoming
that way something very 'small' in the film world. Sex and drugs were
something new back then, but today they have become obsolete. And
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challenges of this construction job - with mostly each other. Alvin
is the oldest and seemingly the wisest and Lance the youngest,
ignorant one. Alvin is maintaining a relationship with Lance's
sister, something that complicates their relationship even more. They
don't like each other, but they do need each other. To work, to
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story and the many information we never learn about the character's
background, are the main disadvantages of this film. It really lacks
in content. Some beautiful shots in the remote Texan nature are not
enough to elevate this film from a <i>below medium position </i>to a
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potential, but again they stumble on the weak narration and the
almost absent story. We don't see any character development, anything
to prove that there is a story. Only their relationship is shown with
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when thousands of reviews and articles have already been written for?
Nothing more than my humble and honest opinion. It really amazed me
with how much love and dedication Nolan made this film. He didn't do
anything at random. He wrote a story, dealing with the exploration of
time travel, black holes and gravity, that has a deep human base:
love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He took the logical
scientific facts and put them in a frame of purity and tenderness
about the essence of our nature. He really knows how to make high
quality cinema that also becomes a sensation selling thousands of
tickets. But this doesn't really say anything to me. What does is his
devotion to his vision, his profound intelligence and his talent to
dive into space with total conscience of his abilities, his
restrictions, his imagination and most of all his modest humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Space is vast and is mostly
depicted with fear and awe from humans. The fact that we haven't
discover all its secrets makes it even more dark and mysterious.
Nolan managed to unlock - even if it is not completely scientifically
correct - this big chest of those mysteries and explore the deepest
of our imagination and potential. The key he used to open this chest,
the key with which he gave meaning to all the uncertainties of our
universe is our own human nature. Our love and affection moves around
our existence. Our emotions and memories are the fuel that keeps us
moving, that makes us who we are, that makes us humans.</span></div>
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about a middle aged woman and a 17 year old boy, who shared a
passionate love affair in Post-WWII Germany. After the abrupt ending
of this relationship, the - now law student - boy discovers that the
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with three different narration points and an extraordinary Kate
Winslet giving the performance of her life (she won the Best
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Oscar in 2009). I really
found this a breathtaking story that blew me away. And when you like
a movie so much instantly, you tend to ignore some faults in
direction or in narration that might have occurred. To me, it made
perfect sense exactly how it was made, even if my critical thinking
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this proud woman overflows with guilt about her past and actions and
prefers to carry the burden of her illiteracy all by herself. Her
strength is proving to be her greatest weakness. All those
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true love. Because she was (and still is) loved. So intense and so
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because of his choice to turn his back to his one and true love. The
tragedy of the story finds peace somehow to its core. Their true
love. Because they both shared that in their lives. At least they had
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and sarcasm is his second nature. He soon dries up from money and
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his past, the possible reasons behind his behavior. Generally the
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>"Stories We Tell"</b> talks about Diane, a young ambitious actress whose energy and vitality is contagious to the people who know her. One day, at a play she was participating, she met a young guy named Micheal who was meant to be her husband. With him she lived a happy shared life, along with their four children - two from a previous failed marriage of Diane - when Sarah was born. Their life didn't change that much, not until Diane passed away from cancer, when Sarah was still quite young. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The youngest and most different of all</b>, the director herself, gives the necessary space to her interviewees to unfold their own side of their family story, revealing - what started as a joke in the beginning - the possibility that Sarah might be the result of an short affair her mother had. After searching, Sarah will discover that her mother had indeed an affair when she played in a play years ago. What will she come across after this revelation that changed everybody's life? Who is the father and what will happen to Micheal if he finds out?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The unfolding of the many stories</b> is not necessarily narrated with that order. What starts as a portrait of Diane and a family, slowly turns into a deeper and stronger story. Nothing is what it seems in the beginning and Sarah knows that. The interviews she held with her brothers and sisters, her father and friends of Diane, are revealing, through the powerful effect of the editing, a magnificent story about family bonding and love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>The way this personal documentary is filmed and edited</b> is the main core of its importance. How she put the fragments together and how she managed to build this tension and this depth - without even trying to be sentimental - it is remarkable. Pieces of personal stories come together and create a mosaic that talks further from the obvious. It is not just a personal story anymore. Because the stories of each and everyone's lives are a mere reflection of our own current self. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Sarah manages to talk about her own life with such an objectivity.</b> She magnificently unfolds the stories of her own life without even intervening. It is like she is letting us do the judgment on either what is being told or the characters and their actions. The fact that we don't really see her clear point of view shows only the artistic and cinematic magnitude of her existence. Nobody could ever do this more successfully than Sarah Polley. </span></div>
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Dupieux, director of the infamous <span lang="en-US"><i>Rubber</i></span>
(2010), has come to Venice with luggage full of distorted realities
or better to say a strange need to explore the idea of mixing
everybody's dreams, making us wonder if anything of what we saw was
part of a twisted game. “Reality” struggles hard to find the
necessary balance between its real purpose – if there is any - and
the overachieved surrealism it inevitably shares.</span></div>
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is a peaceful cameraman living in California. He is dreaming of
making his own film, where television sets are the most dangerous
thing in the whole planet. They produce those weird kind of waves
that slowly make humans more stupid, while their ultimate goal is to
extinguish them. He approaches Bob Marshal, a film producer, who gets
overexcited with his crazy idea. He will sign the deal as soon as
Jason gets the perfect groan in 48 hours.
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Jason's is not the only story we discover. A young man working as a
TV presenter on a food program has an unstoppable need to scratch
himself, thinking there is something terribly wrong with him, while
everyone else thinks he is overreacting. A young girl witnesses a
videotape coming out of the insides of an animal, while her father
cleans it in order to embalm it. Nobody believes her, but we will
come to know that this videotape somehow is the answer to loads of
questions. All of those stories, as distant as they might seem with
each other, they share something in common; the same confusing
connection that leads to nothing more than a dead-end.
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In
the world Dupieux has created, parallel dreams stream like parades of
surrealistic thoughts and acts on one's self and the perception of
reality. While the first scenes seem indifferent, you do get hooked
on the way the story evolves. The head-exploding music makes sure to
achieve that in a conscious but also a deep subconscious level, while
the physical effect of it can be disturbing for some time after you
watch the film. You too immerse in a deep dream along with the
characters. You too step by step lose the sense of reality presented
to you.
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dreams
lost in dreams in an endless maze with no exit signs. A surreal world
where nothing makes sense and somehow everything fits in a distorted
kind of way. This is what is being achieved through Dupieux's
direction and the narrative he has chosen. His images betray his
blurry vision though and the fact that none of these has any clear
purpose, only to throw us into the endless world of dreaming.
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moments in the film that are meant to be humorous, fail to
communicate any connection with the content. This constant attempt to
revive the plot with funny moments is not enough to explain any of
what is being shown. While Dupieux can't stop mixing his narrative,
we keep wondering how such a promising idea of dreaming in a dream
got stuck in all those flat characters and their tiresome realities.
This flatness is probably used on purpose in order<span style="color: #141823;">
to intensify the hollowness they carry or probably the fact that they
are just plain visitors in those dreary dreams. </span>
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are many questions raised about the definition of our dreams as much
as the perception that we have for the realities that surround us.
For some of us it is complicated – or intentionally complicated -
like in Dupieux's mind and for some others is simpler or indifferent.
Those questions only meant to be left unanswered in a film that
flirts with the vastness of the subconscious and manages at the same
time to convey a frustrating self-conscious feeling. If you have
never been lost in a dream, this is your chance to discover how that
might feel. Are you ready?</span></div>
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Words with Gods by Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai,
Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi, Hideo
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is part of human history. People always try to define their lives
through the temporary answers religion offers.</span><span lang="en-US"><i>
Words with Gods</i></span><span lang="en-US">
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give ultimate answers. It has managed to convey different universal
and cultural aspects of human religions creating a respectful and
divine whole. </span>
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and director Guillermo Arriaga gathered nine acclaimed directors and
gave them a mission; to depict their thoughts on spirituality and
their perception of God through different religions. Every director
chose the religion he/she felt closer to without imposing or
manipulating. The purpose of this mosaic was to show truthfully,
through a series of diverse stories, the relationship with God. This
film is innovative on how it approaches its subject, without escaping
being 'heavy'. Every short story is connected visually by the amazing
animations of Maribel Martinez and is escorted by the breathtaking
score of Peter Gabriel. Those 9 short stories were put in order by
Nobel Prize winner writer Mario Vargas Llosa confirming the project's
ambition to be remembered beyond Venice Film Festival.
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intense cinematography the first story begins with a pregnant woman
walking alone in the Australian desert, in order to find the perfect
place to give birth. Having no dialogue, </span><span lang="en-US"><i>True
Gods</i></span><span lang="en-US">
of Warwick Thornton talks about </span><span lang="en-US">Aboriginal
Spirituality and </span><span lang="en-US">the
strong relation between humans and Earth, expressing how divinity is
evident more than ever when the miracle of birth occurs and that true
gods are those who have the gift to create those wonders. </span>
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woman after being beaten gathers her clothes and runs out of the
house. Her husband will not hunt her down. He will sit on the couch
unable to cope with the fact he lost everything. Wandering in the
streets of São Paulo, he seeks comfort in his own existence. He has
become a lonesome traveler searching for the meaning in life when he
discovers a local group of Umbanda and loses himself. In </span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Man Who Stole a Duck </i></span><span lang="en-US">Babenco
has managed to give graciously a story about grief and solitude,
enhancing the importance of religion to human suffering. </span>
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big wealthy family has just bought a big apartment in Mumbai, arguing
over who is getting which room, doubting about where God's rooms
should be. Light and colorful, in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>God's
Room </i></span><span lang="en-US">Mira
Nair talks about Hinduism through the eyes of a young boy, who has
trouble synchronizing with his family disputes. He sees through their
pretentious behavior the truth about God residing everywhere around
us but mostly deep inside us. </span>
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2011. A fisherman has lost his entire family in the destructive
tsunami. He is struggling to make amends with why God didn't choose
to take him instead of his family. During a conversation with a
Shinto Buddhist monk – the strongest scene of the film – he
doubts God himself, raising questions of death and loss in the
heaviest and most emotional story of all by the hands of horror
master Hideo Nakata.
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the only politically charged film, </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Book
of Amos </i></span><span lang="en-US">of
Amos Gitai </span><span lang="en-US">explores,
through passages from the Hebrew Bible, Israel's current state in
contrast with its past. Words of social balance and equality are said
during a fight between soldiers and civilians in a passionate
one-shot film, on an attempt to represent divinity and define its
essence. </span>
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humour and witty dialogues in a story of a ruthless hitman who
manages to escape from a failed mission only to be captured by
destiny in a self-discovery misfortune. Examining the idea of sin and
forgiveness, this tale handles Catholicism without falling into
ridiculousness. Comic and smart </span><span lang="en-US">Alex
de la Inglesia's film</span><span lang="en-US">
offers loads of discussion. </span>
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Christian Orthodox priest living in the Serbian countryside takes on
a journey of atonement by cleansing himself from all sin. Carrying
bags full of stones, he starts climbing on a hill under the hot sun
in order to purify himself from the world's suffering. On his way up
he will encounter evil, but mostly himself, realizing the necessity
of suffering in order to survive. Kusturica purely elaborates on
Christian faith, strengthening the importance of torture and distress
for achieving grace.
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struggles of conjoined twin brothers on finding a solution between
their different desires are shown in an intelligent and divided way
in Ghobadi's film. One is craving for a sexual relationship with a
woman while the other is devoted to Islam, contrasting lust and faith
on a tale about duty and human nature.
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">From the first shots where she is trying to find her voice - tribute to "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" of Stanley Kubrick - and is being created into something more human alike, we are introduced into this cold and distant world. Which is our world through their eyes. The way the aliens see the humans and the way Johanson, the hunter, lures them to the nest, provoke frustrated emotions. Firstly because of how she observes everything, how we walk, how we behave, how we act. Secondly because of the cruelty these aliens share. The insensitivity with which they treat humans, the cold and surgical way they act. <b>It is quite horrifying.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I found out about this film from some friends and from the moment they described the story, I have to tell you I was hooked. I wanted to watch it very badly. Based in South Korea, the first scene introduces us to a heavy atmosphere. A man is on a bridge calling with his bank. They inform him that he ows a great amount of money and that reassures him about his decision to commit suicide. But the story doesn't end here, it has actually just begun.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The mystery person is being introduced to us in the beginning as something different. You keep wonder what has this girl have to do with our story, but soon you realize how roughly connected she is to our castaway. A young girl trapped in a virtual world, locked into her own universe, suddenly sees some light in her dark room when the image of this weird "alien" - as she calls him - enters her extra macro lens from her tall window. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Director: </b><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">John Lee Hancock</span><br style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><b style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Writers:</b><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith</span><br style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><b style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">With:</b><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitford, B.J. Novak, Jason Schwartzman</span><br style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><b style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Duration: </b><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">125'</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Saving Mr. Banks is a movie talking about a hard woman, a character so stiff and difficult, you might think it is all fiction. But it is not. It is the story of P.L. Travers, stage name for the acclaimed writer <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Helen Lyndon Goff, writer of Mary Poppins. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Walt Disney's daughters always begged him to make the famous children's book series about the magical English nanny Mary Poppins into a movie. He was unsuccessfully trying to convince P.L. Travers to sell to him the book rights. After what seems to be 20 years and due to lack of money, Mrs Travers will eventually </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">succumb</span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> to Disney's will to make a deal, being though </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">immensely</span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> difficult in terms of the adaptation of her books on screen. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">What begins as a light and funny story of this extraordinary woman, who beneath this dominant attitude she in nothing more than a disappointed from life human being, soon evolves into a serious drama about the hard childhood she suffered, living in Queensland, Australia. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Her father was a banker who above all loved to live and made everything nice and beautiful for his children. A man who found it hard to devote his whole self into work, instead he preferred playing around with his children, showing them how magnificent life is. In his long attempts to synchronize with his tough work reality, he enslaved himself to alcohol, which made him eventually lose his job. He died </span></span>of influenza a couple of years later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All these aspects of her life we see via flash - backs in her early years, while at the same time she arrives at Los Angeles to talk through the adaptation of her book. In the movie we see that she hasn't sold the rights to Disney yet, something that really helps the plot go on, but in reality she had already done it. In what seems to be a period of some weeks, she, from a harsh, dominant personality and almost disgusted towards Disney, will eventually yield to his will to make a musical with actors and cartoons, even if she never really liked it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The extreme loneliness this woman felt all her life begins to unravel while she works with Disney's team through the film script. She keeps remembering the true story behind what inspired her, a story that is not funny or even a musical. Even if the direction shows in parts this tension, we still found ourselves locked into her tough past, something that helps us understand her strictness towards people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She never really reveals to the Disney team the real aspects of this story or for the matter the real Mary Poppins, a harsh lady that arrived one day to help her mother with the house and raise the children. A personality that seems Mrs Travers evolved to. She holds inside her the real Mary Poppins and in order to make her life less tougher than it was, she used her talent and imagination and created the character in the book. So that all this burden would finally get off her shoulders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">P.L. Travers loses herself in her own thoughts. The people around her can see, in the course of time, that she is nothing more than a hurt little girl who just wants to be truthful to her vision of her own life and work. She remembers her drunk father as a loving man who did his best for his family, she evolved him into Mr. Banks, the character in her book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was her life and inspiration for years and even till the end she refuses any changes the studio is planning to make on him. She lives her life dictated by her past, but<b> the past she chose </b>to remember. She made it better, nicer and even more wonderful through her books, only to be able to live through it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The movie doesn't really know where to stand. Is it a comedy using Travers' attitude towards people in order to be hilarious? Is it a drama about the life of this family who beneath all the sadness kept hidden the golden beautiful treasures of love and real life meaning? At the end it doesn't really matter, because "Saving Mr. Banks" talks about the life of this woman, her travel through her past and the -what it seems- settlement with her present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Emma Thompson seems to be the best choice, since she can perform with absolutely perfectness a role that requires both humor and depth. Even if she wasn't nominated in the Oscars after all, what I believe was extremely unfair, it doesn't really matter. Her work and depiction of the hard, strict, complainer P.L. Travers is amazing. She managed to reveal the human side of hers, her creativity, her talent and her deep love for her father. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The relationship we see unravel in the movie between Travers and Disney was much more problematic in real life. She hated the final movie and never accepted any of the songs or cartoons participating in it. After the premiere, they never talked to each other again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She was devoted to her personal vision till the end of her years and never made more adaptations. However in the movie, she appears to be touched from the immense talent of the Sherman's brothers, something that needed to be screened, in order to depict how creativity is evolving as a process and how the people behind the scenes deserve more of the spotlight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a viewer I would love to see more aspects of her real life, more evidence of how she became such a tough woman, of why she never had children, of how she really managed to transform her past. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In this semi-biographical film, the vision and work of P.L. Travers revives in order to show us how some really hard things in life can be transformed into something so unique and beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">She will be remembered for many years to come and through "Saving Mr. Banks" so will her constant attempts to protect her family, the father she loved so much and the Mary Poppins who helped her get through it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And here lies a vampire world so much different than the one we are used to. Two lonely creatures, drifting through the years, through the centuries. They share a deep love for each other and a deep respect for the world they live in. Their names? Adam and Eve, in an ironic reference in religion, one of the few that follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are in this world for centuries, they have met historic personalities, they have influenced some of them, they are <b>no random souls</b>. They are maybe the last - or the first - of their kind, lost and drifted in a world where everywhere is constant danger. Through many references in literature, science, history, music and film those creatures make a meaning out of themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is such a poetically beautiful movie. The harmony that flows within, the deep and unspoken love it vibrates. Those melancholic creatures face the same - almost - problems with any other human being. She is a unique optimist with features 'out of this world'(how beautiful Tilda is) and He is a talented creature, tired of his own self and solitude and blessed with a deep view for the world of music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You will not see many characters in this story. Adam and Eve meet with one of their mentors, Marlowe, an old figure (based on the true Christopher Marlowe who is considered to have written some of Shakespeare works according to historian James S. Shapiro) who eventually will drift away. Eve's younger sister, Ava, will disturb their peace by invading in their world, something that is obvious she does once in a century (which is often). Their relationship will be tested as Adam in not a big fan of Ava, while Eve loves and appreciates her little sister, even if she is over the top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The truth is that this story doesn't have a beginning or an end. It catches a part of those creatures' lives into this world. They are both a bit retired from life and don't have so much contact with humans as they used to. Adam has given up hope on the human race and his suicidal attitude worries Eve deeply. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, the talented independent American filmmaker who has a devoted cinephile audience whatever he does, "Only Lovers Left Alive" is a poetic story of two vampires. The melodic, psychedelic music in the scenes and the slow sequences reveal an auteur with artistic depth and a will to create everything ritually. From how they drink blood (never violently taken anymore), how they make love, how they walk and behave, how they see the world. The time he gives to its characters to evolve, to express their true feelings, works soothingly in the course of the story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Only Lovers Left Alive" is a genuine art film that shows us where the true meaning of life is, even if you are immortal. This movie has created a constant discussion about the melancholic nature of every human walking in this world, having already a truthful attitude towards everything it deals with. <b>In its fiction is utterly genuine</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This sailor, whose name and origin we know nothing about, wakes up in his ship, only to realize that it has been wounded by a big floating cargo container. The film starts with us knowing nothing but this sailor's current state. No past or future. Only present. A peaceful present that seems to have been disturbed by an unfortunate accident. The sailor is trying, and after a lot of work manages, to fix his ship, to patch up the big hole in its side and take out the extra water from the inside. But before he even realizes his small success another disaster hits in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Through all these tests the sailor has to get through, we experience his deep connection with his ship. It is his friend, his companion. They help each other it seems, he gets hurt when it does. All those feelings are obvious through the sailor's body language. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He doesn't say much, he doesn't need to say much and so he shows his every feeling and emotion through his rough body. His random gazes, his nods, his head, all shout out what he cannot spell. Through the course of this unending trip, we see him go through various of states; the peaceful, the nervous, the persistent, the satisfied, the angry, the desperate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The direction follows patiently the sailor's trip in the sea, his adventure that begins and ends on water. Out in the open ocean where the only things between him are Nature and sea. He, as an experienced captain and used to accidents and misfortunes as this, he tries to replace the damages and go on. His stoicism is unique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He never complains and doesn't give up. <b>He is such a force of hope that it is almost too much to bare</b>. His strength and health are being tested all the time. He is alone against nature with a broken ship. But his attitude is the one that keeps him alive. It reminded me the short story of Hemingway "The old man and the sea". Where being alone in the sea and fighting against all those obstacles can only make you stronger, better and wiser. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's poetic essence, the contact with Nature and its rage are shown with such enormously amounts of respect and gratitude. Gratitude towards these powers for teaching men, and this man in particular, to face themselves, to embrace their humanity and to accept their faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is a movie of great importance and emotion. Perseverance and strength, the boldness of battling with nature, the greatness of man's mind and soul. They are all here, allowing so much more to intervene, to mingle, to settle, to absorb through this movie. Redford is astonishing with his performance as the sailor he represents. He is giving an amazing one man show, proving his worth as an actor. He takes all the burden of any small imperfections on his shoulders, that's how good he is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>'All is lost' is definitely underestimated.</b> But this does not diminish its worth and its value into the cinematic, anthropological world. The sailor and Redford himself are icons, legends of courage and wisdom, faces of everyone who ever doubted themselves. </span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. Is dramatic, hilarious when
needed and absolutely challenging for your eyes. And because you
know there should be a special award category only for him.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The absence of any particular meaningful point. Or maybe that's
the point. Nothingness.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The seductive energy of the movie, the money, the drugs, the sex,
everything. It just justifies everything, ignoring any potential
consequences.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The non-judgmental view of Scorsese's direction, his
recklessness, his euphoria and impulse like his is still 20 years
old.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The disturbingly hilarious sequence with the expired pills. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The addictive feeling of this materialistic universe, the porn,
the drugs, the excess in money and in living.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because it showed how Wall Street really is.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The fact that at the end you feel completely empty and numb. Some
thoughts of how <u><b>you</b></u> would live this life are running in
your brain for at least 30 seconds.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The greedy need to see this guy failing completely, not just
talking to seemingly untalented people. Now he probably earned a lot
of money through this film.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The over the top characters, the scary moment when you realize
they were/are all real people.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When DiCaprio talks to you in the camera. You feel like you can
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">9. Gravity (ο τρόμος)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">8. Fruitvale Station (η ευτυχία)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">7. Wolf of Wall Street (τα ληγμένα)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">6. The Hunt (ο πόνος και η αμφισβήτηση)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5. Her (ο έρωτας)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4. Only Lovers Left Alive (η αρμονία)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. Blue Jasmine (η τρέλα)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. Frances Ha (η φιλία)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1. American Hustle (το ξεμπρόστιασμα)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i>Ή αλλιώς λίγα από τα όσα θα συναντήσεις/χρειαστείς/ποθήσεις σε τούτη τη ζωή. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><b>1. Alfonso
Cuarón – Gravity </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><b>2. Ron
Howard – Rush</b></span></div>
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Allen – Blue Jasmine</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><b>4. Noah
Baumbach – Frances Ha</b></span></div>
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Chandor – All is lost</b></span></div>
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Polley – Stories We Tell</b></span></div>
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Sorrentino – La Grande Bellezza</b></span></div>
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Coogler – Fruitvale Station</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><b>9. Spike
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