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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2022 13:09:10 GMT
I comete is a movie about summer in Corsica. Children run around, adolescents hang out, adults worry about their work or livestock, old people comment on the past. There are moments of unhappiness, times for masturbation or fist fights, plenty of time to drink coffee or wine. There is no real plot. You are just a fly on the wall, and the camera remains static in every scene. Not for everybody, but I like being a fly on the wall.
The Israeli movie All Eyes Off Me reminded me quite a bit of the Norwegian movie The Worst Person in the World. It's about a young woman stumbling through life but instead of being divided into 12 chapters like Worst, this is just 3 chapters, and the young woman isn't even in the 1st chapter even though her boyfriend is. The boyfriend Max is in chapter 2 which concentrates on Avishag, and shag is definitely what she does. Avishag and Max have standard sex, you know, the kind where you wipe off the excess sperm with toilet paper, but then she decides that she wants it rougher. Max obliges but perhaps goes a little too far. No big deal so we move to chapter 3. Avishag is a dog walker and one of her customers asks if she can come and dogsit because he has to accompany his mother to the hospital for an operation. So she does that, ignoring all of the calls from Max on her phone, downs a bottle of wine and sleeps in the owner's bed. The next morning she wakes up and finds the owner sleeping on the sofa. He is an old bald man with a pot belly. And Avishag finds him attractive...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 15, 2022 17:29:34 GMT
Incroyable mais vrai (Incredible but True) bored me from start to finish. Luckily it is mercifully short (1h17).
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 16, 2022 13:57:06 GMT
Sweat is a Polish film from a couple of years ago, but covid got in the way. At first it seems like an empty film about an empty life, but then it slides into something different. Sylwia is a fitness influencer on Polish social media. She does workouts in full makeup, does all of the usual product placement and makes unboxing videos of the various sponsor gifts she has received. All of her food is delivered because she apparently knows nothing about cooking, but she does know how to call and complain when the food company uses plastic for the containers.
She is quite lonely beause her media life leaves no time for a relationship, so all she can do is read the comments of her 600,000 followers. Just about her only contact with a real person is her stalker who sits in his car masturbating at the entrance to her apartment building.
This movie is not a great advertisement for social media, and that's how it should be.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2022 20:03:17 GMT
I hesitated before seeing Ima, but then I felt that I might be missing something of interest so I caught it near the end of its run. What gave me pause is that it is an African movie but made by a French director. It is also a fictional story about a real French singing star called Dadzu who plays a Congolese singing star called Dadzu.
It is really simplistic in certain ways like most African movies (of which I have seen a certain number), but that's no problem with me. Big star arrives in Kinshasa for a big concert but gets hired (reluctantly) by local tycoon for a private concert to impress the girl he covets. Dadzu flashes on the girl and the competition is launched, except the tycoon has henchmen to prevent the triumph of love. There are some tense moments and even a car chase in the rain forest.
The cinemtography is spectacular with amazing views of both Kinshasa and the jungle, so I suspect that there is some Congolese money in the budget to portray the country as being very appealing. And I think that Dadzu must have also put some money into the movie to promote his career. Nothing wrong with that -- people have been doing such things for 100 years.
I liked the movie and it made me a fan of Dadzu's music, to which I had never relly listened before.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2022 20:23:51 GMT
Keeping with the theme of musical films, I went to see Elvis today. I was never an Elvis Presley fan and pretty much an Elvis Presley hater. But even though Baz Luhrmann makes really awful movies, they are at least never boring, which is imoportant when you know you have to sit through 2 hours and 39 minutes of this stuff. Pretty boy Austin Butler turned out to be quite a good actor which helped me to endure the creepiest and most distasteful role of Tom Hank's career. And yet Tom Hanks was perfect for his role, just unbearable. Austin Butler get jerked around by Colonel Parker for longer than seems possible, excent since it is a true story, I can't vote against it.
The movie is pretty awful, except that the music sequences are usually very well done which is the least we can expect from someone who got his start filming music videos. Since the movie spans basically age 17 to age 40, it drags at certain times and then races ahead at breakneck speed to the next point that interests Baz. But I can't think of any biopic that didn't do this. Although I never wanted Austin to get as ugly as Elvis in later life, I have to point out that the aging was underdone. Even if they fleshed him out a bit with latex prosthetics at the end, he still looks too good to be true.
I had to wince at the sideburns, the Las Vegas stage costumes, the greasy hair... but of course they were all real.
I don't regret having seen it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2022 12:19:01 GMT
Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man) is a rather sweet and sad German movie set in the imperceptibly near future in which a company is testing androids for home use. A research scientist reluctantly accepts to test one of them because she needs the money, but she is totally against the concept and gives her android Tom a really hard time. But he is programmed to put up with anything...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2022 19:18:07 GMT
Tengo Miedo Torero (My Tender Matador) is a rather unexpected Argentinian movie that takes place in Chile during the years of Pinochet. A Mexican revolutionary helping the Chilean resistance encounters a sad old transvestite after saving him from a police raid on an illegal gay club. They sort of become friends, and the Mexican (Carlos) persuades the trans man (who remains unnamed) to hide boxes of books in his flat (which are actually full of guns under the books). Things are not easy. The other revolutionaries are repulsed by the transvestite, since being a revolutionary is a very macho thing, but the friendship grows. It grows a little too much because the old trans guy falls completely in love with Carlos. Nothing ever happens between them except maybe that night when they both get drunk and the trans guy removes his dentures and gives Carlos a blow job while he is mostly but not completely asleep.
There is a terrorist attack against Pinochet, who survives. Carlos was clearly involved and needs to flee to Cuba. He would like the trans guy to come with him, but that is just not going to happen.
I have to admit that trans people basically disturb me, because they are in my same category with clowns, heavy makeup or disguises -- anything that prevents people from looking the way they do in real life. But this movie was touching.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 26, 2022 10:00:10 GMT
We went in family to see Top Gun. Tom oversmiles, you wonder howcthe navy is so powerful with so many admorals behaving kike jerks. But the movie delivers. It is a very good action movie. I would say as good as the first.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2022 11:39:35 GMT
Having to watch the trailer about 5 times was more than enough for me.
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Post by rikita on Jun 27, 2022 19:59:17 GMT
Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man) is a rather sweet and sad German movie set in the imperceptibly near future in which a company is testing androids for home use. A research scientist reluctant accepts to test one of them because she needs the money, but she is totally against the concept and gives her android Tom a really hard time. But he is programmed to put up with anything... i haven't seen the movie (though i did read it mentioned quite a bit) - but i thought it was interesting that in the English title they use "man", because my association with that would be, just seeing the title, "man" as in "male person" and really i'd kind of think of "man and woman" as in a couple, while "mensch" of course is "human being" and the german title thus sounds very different to me ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 27, 2022 20:57:23 GMT
After seeing the excellent I'm Your Man, I felt compelled to see the other robot movie that came out this week -- L'Homme parfait, a French comedy. I was certain that it was awful, and I was right. In this movie, the overworked wife orders a robot to help around the house. She and the kids like it, but the husband hates it. The more he tries to mess with the robot, the more he fails. They all should have been killed.
Today I saw a really excellent movie, Les goûts et les couleurs with a completely unexpected plot. A young singer has befriended a reclusive former pop star from the 60's and 70's. She cajoles the other woman into being interested in music again and they start collaborating on new compositions. There is quite a bit of music in this movie and the new stuff is quite good. Old pop songs from the past were also created and most of the are awful, but everything was done extremely professionally and corresponds to the tastes of the times. And then the old woman suddenly dies unexpectedly and accidentally, unless maybe it was a suicide.
The only heir who owns the rights to all of her music is a great nephew who doesn't give a fuck about any of it and didn't like his great aunt at all. He works as some sort of covered market manager in the far suburbs and you can see that he is a total jerk.
And so now we have the problem to be resolved. The young singer tracks him down, but so does the music industry. They would like to get permission to use some of the old music in commercials and things like that. Once the jerk understands that he can sell the rights to a 30-second clip for abuout 40,000 euros, he is suddenly interested...
He becomes a bit less of a jerk but still... The young singer is still trying to convince him to release the old singer's last recordings that she worked on, but he thinks they are too melancholic...
It's all quite complicated and doesn't end well.
English title: Not My Type
It should be exportable because the scenes of Paris are extremely appealing while not being the traditional ones. For example, the young singer lives on a barge next to Bastille but gets evicted (rent too high) and has to move to the Bassin de la Villette with a scene in the wonderful canal tunnel under Paris.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2022 11:33:17 GMT
In the Iraqi movie Goodnight, Soldier Ziné and Avdal are madly in love even though their families have been feuding forever. Avdal is a Kurdish soldier in Iraqi Kurdistan and is wounded during a raid. He is patched up in the hospital and his military commander intervenes to convince the parents to let the young couple marry. It is clear they don't even know what they are feuding about, so they calm down even if they aren't happy about the marriage.
Sounds too simple, right? We find out the problem during the wedding night. Avdal enthusiastically performs cunnilingus on his bride but won't let her reciprocate. And when she keeps begging for him to stick it in her, he doesn't. In fact he runs off into the night. Impotence is extremely difficult to admit in the Arab world. When he returns, it is not smooth sailing, but love conquers all. I was not expecting massive full frontal nudity in an Iraqi movie, but it is French financed and probably was not filmed anywhere near Kurdistan.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2022 14:54:17 GMT
I have always been an avid fan of road movies. When I was still rather small, my parents would drop me off at the local cinema when they went to their bowling league and pick me up later in the evening. This definitely harks back to when the world did not seem as dangerous, because I doubt that anybody would do that with a child now. I had the choice of staying at home if I preferred, which is what my brother did, but I ALWAYS wanted to go to see a movie. I think the first road movie I ever saw was Two for the Road, which I see dates from 1967. It was a calm and extremely civilised movie, unlike some of the more extreme ones that I saw at a younger age (Blow Up, Georgy Girl, Alfie, Zulu, Divorce Italian Style...). Therefore, I did not see it on a "bowling night" but when I was already old enough to take the bus to the next town and see what I wanted. But since my family was already living in California in 1967, this happened at a completely different period of my life, which surprises me. Anyway, my very first road movie starred Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney who form a disintegrating couple who nevertheless have their most interesting conversations on various road trips.
Of course this has nothing to do with the movie that I saw yesterday or frankly with almost any other road trip movie, since they are all different. Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise, Into the Wild, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. etc. etc. I just love these trips of discovery.
Anyway, this movie is called "En roue libre" (no English title yet, but the literal translation would be along the lines of "freewheeling"). It's about an ordinary nurse who has a psychological shock and cannot get out of her car one day. When a shady young man is seen going from car to car to find one to steal, she hides in the back seat so you can imagine what happens. He is not even really a thief but needs to drive across France to kill the person who killed his brother in a traffic accident. Or at least that's what he thinks. So we have an odd couple indeed at odds most of the time but with a growing complicity. Since she really cannot leave the car, he provides cups from fast food places for peeing and later on gets one of those huge candy tubs (in which you would often find popcorn in the U.S.) for other needs. Luckily, the movie does not show the big tub being used although the cups are filled up regularly. The young guy really tries hard and even kidnaps a hospital psychiatrist for awhile so she can leave the car.
At the end, the young guy finally finds a way to get the woman out of the car, but we never find out what happens after that.
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Post by rikita on Jul 3, 2022 15:23:33 GMT
we went to see minions - rise of gru today. it was either that or lightyear, and minions had better ratings. it was of course quite silly and all, but we still had fun. and first time in ages that i saw a movie in 3d.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2022 15:55:27 GMT
I can't even remember the last time I saw a movie in 3D. The two cinema chains that I usually go to have decided not to offer 3D anymore, or I could be tempted even if I avoid the majority of blockbusters now.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 11, 2022 17:39:37 GMT
*** Decision to Leave. This South Korean film won the prize for best director in Cannes. It's about a police detective investigating a death, and the CHinese widow is the prime suspect. And he falls in love with her. But did she do it?
** La Traversée. French movie about social workers taking a few juvenile delinquents on a trip to Morocco across the Mediterranean to knock some sense into them. Well, that's not really going to happen, but the worst guy turns out not to be so bad after all, the just about everybody bonds, which is obligatory for this kind of movie.
** After Yang. Morose America science fiction movie about a domestic android. I confess that I didn't understand much but there were some interesting scenes and a unique tone.
* I Love Greece. Rather pathetic Franco-Greek movie about summer holidays that do not do well. The husband is French, the wife is Greek, so they mostly deal with the Greek family. The mother-in-law makes meatballs nonstop. That's about it.
* Music Hole. Totally weird Belgian movie about an accountant working for a shady nightclub in Charleroi. Heads are severed, stinking corpses are kept in the boot of a car and there is infidelity. I was a bit aghast, but I think that was the point of the movie. Only the Belgians can make this sort of movie.
** Peter von Kant. This is François Ozon's remake of Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, except that he swapped the sexes even though Hanna Schygulla is in both of them. (She is always wonderful.) Film director hooks up with a pretty boy who ends up tossing him aside. Life goes downhill after that. I frankly didn't like the movie but I thought the role of Karl, the valet/assistant, was so astounding that I had to give it an extra star, even though he doesn't have a single line of dialogue.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 17, 2022 14:22:40 GMT
Thor: Love and Thunder is a load of horseshit. Marvel has definitely lost the plot, and I mean that literally.
Menteur (Liar) is the remake of a 2019 Québec movie of the same name. A pathological liar suddenly finds that every lie he has ever told is now true. The idea is of course too complicated for a movie, and even just choosing the five or six main lies to try to make it ha-ha funny do not work.
Holy Spider (French title Les Nuits de Mashhad) is an amazing Iranian movie about a serial killer of prostitutes in the holy pilgrimage city of Mashhad. A reporter comes from Tehran to make her own investigation and we are immediately plunged into the quirks of modern Iranian society -- the hotel doesn't want to let her check in because she is alone and unmarried. They are reluctantly convinced by her press car, and then we get into the thick of the mess. It isn't a suspense as to who the killer is -- we see him immediately and we see him kill again and again. He picks up hookers on his motorcycle, takes them home, strangles them and then disposes of the body along a road. Since they are all crackhead whores, the police are in no hurry to find the killer.
But the journalist finds him (posing as a prostitute of course), narrowly escapes being strangled, and the guy is finally arrested.
Now is when the suspense starts. He is an upstanding pious citizen with a wife and family. The local imam is a close friend. He thinks he has been doing a public service to cleanse the city of filth. And public opinion agrees. So it is far from certain that he will be convicted of his 16 murders, in spite of the pressure being put on by those legalist sissies in Tehran. I found it absolutely gripping.
It was based on a true event but was not filmed in Iran, which was obvious from the opening scene with one of the whores inspecting her nude body in a bathroom mirror and later sucking a very visible erect penis in a car. But these two scenes are part of a prologue, and it was clear that they could be snipped out easily for release in places where such things cannot be shown. It probably won't be released in Iran, though, because the chief of police makes some inappropriate moves and the imam is not as holy as he should be. The movie was filmed in Jordan.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2022 16:06:43 GMT
Pierre Salvadori has made quite a few very good French social comedies, but unfortunately La Petite Bande is not one of them. It was clearly going for a "Stand by Me" vibe mixed with ecological issues and failed miserably. The group of kids (about age 12) kidnap the manager of the factory that is polluting their river and hold him hostage. It is all too cartoon-simple and it was impossible to believe that the authorities could not find the guy even though everything was in kid walking distance. The fact that the bad guy is a French dead ringer for Mr. Bean did not help matters either. I hope the kids like it.
The Romanian movie Miracle is gripping even if it is a bit slow for many people. A novice sneaks out of her convent to go to a hospital for an abortion, but then she changes her mind. Unfortunately, she gets the wrong taxi driver for her trip back because he rapes her and (almost) beats her to death. The movie is in two halves -- the first half with the girl and then the second half with the police investigator. We want to support him because he is the good guy. Except that he isn't as good as we wished he would be. It is all very distressing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2022 4:08:58 GMT
As Bestas (The Beasts) is an extremely gripping Spanish movie about a French couple trying to fit in to a mountain community. They are urban professionals who decided they wanted to get back to nature, so they have a farm and sell their products at the market, and the husband fixes up abandoned houses to be given free to anybody who wants to settle there. The villagers don't understand their world, particularly the two brothers living next door with their elderly mother. They decide to make the life of the newcomers a living hell. You keep wondering when the movie is going to turn into Straw Dogs but it never quite does. The movie is mostly in French but also in Galician and Spanish.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2022 18:11:50 GMT
I have mixed feelings about the Japanese movie Hold Me Back (Tempura en français or Watashi wo kuitomete in Japan). It is rather weird, which is usually good but not when it hinders comprehension. Mitsuko is a 31 year old single woman in Tokyo who seems relatively happy with her life but there is something missing (not hard to guess what). She has an inner voice counsellor called A (with a male voice) whose manifestations make you wonder if she is losing her mind. She is obviously in love with her colleague Tada and it is clearly reciprocal, but their relationship seems to be going nowhere. She prepares quite a few meals for him, but that's about it. Then she goes to Rome to visit a friend who married an Italian. Rather strange Christmas-New Year's interlude in the plot. Luckily she has another colleague in love with yet another colleague (strangely called Carter), and so they kind of push each other to make a move on Valentine's Day on the Tokyo Tower.
(you might need to click on the subtitle tag to get the English subtitles for this trailer)
The French trailer makes it look like a food movie, which is what the title implies as well.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 27, 2022 14:48:05 GMT
Costa Brava, Lebanon is a completely charmining movie while still having some tough moments. A family left Beirut several years ago because Beirut is hopeless and will never get fixed, especially after the explosion. The parents are militant ecologists who demonstrated and sang and did all sorts of militant actions until they just got tired of it all. So they created their little paradise in the mountains with a vegetable garden, a swimming pool and even some poultry. And then developers come and create a disgusting dump right next door. You can't win against these people.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 28, 2022 11:20:07 GMT
Mi Iubita Mon Amour is a fish-out-of-water movie, a genre I like almost as much as road trip movies. It's about a group of young women going on a sort of hen party trip to Romania (not everybody's first choice). The car and all of the baggage are quickly stolen while they're picnicking at a service station. But that is where they meet Nino, a gypsy who speaks French and who takes them home because the police stations are closed at night. He actually lives in Paris most of the time, and all the rest of the family seem to have done so at different times. His life in Paris is not glorious because he often sleeps in the street and he makes a living selling things he has found in the trash or selling cheap beer in buckets at minor music concerts at Place de la République. I've seen these people as long as I have lived in Paris.
The Romanian family is not at all delighted to have these unexpected guests, but they warm up little by little. They are being harrassed by someone who lent money for the mother's operation and whom they can't pay back. And of course gypsies are generally considered to be scum in Romania just like in the rest of Europe. Nino falls in love with one of the French women even though he is only 17 (looks older because a hard life just about always makes you look older). Bittersweet moments ensue.
The movie was made on an ultra-low budget with a technical crew of just two people: a camerawoman and a sound technician.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2022 11:13:47 GMT
I saw the Slovakian movie The Auschwitz Report and to say that it is harrowing is an understatement. It's the true story of two Czechoslovakian men who escaped the camp and managed to get to Red Cross representatives to tell them what was happening there. Even though they had some lists of names and exterminations, the Red Cross was rather incredulous. "We sent more than 400,000 aid packages to Auschwitz for the people being detained there!" And they had letters and cards in return saying that everything was fine and not to worry... These were written by the victims under threat just before being sent to the gas chamber. The Nazis dated and posted the correspondence when it was all over.
The movie spares nothing from view -- the prisoners being stripped, heads shaved, squirted with pesticide... And the conditions and tortures and executions are shown as well. The two escapees keep some of the collected information under the floorboards of the building where all of the dead naked corpses are piled high. It's one of the safest places because not even the Nazis want to go into that building...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2022 15:08:06 GMT
Sundown by Mexican director Michel Franco fit the bill today. It is the story of an extremely wealthy British family (adult brother and sister and her two semi-adult children) having a holiday in Acapulco in a ultra exclusive hotel. This is interrupted when the mother suddenly dies back home, so they rush back to London. But Tim Roth says that he left his passport at the hotel (lie!) so the others fly off without him. He settles into a semi-sleazy hotel and claerly has the holiday that he really wanted. We get to see the less glamourous side of Acapulco, but things go definitely downhill when we also get to see the conditions of a Mexican prison, followed by a Mexican hospital. While the plot is a bit lazy, these are the sort of things that I want to see in a movie. It is remarkably compact movie (1h22), but it definitely makes an impact.
The trailer does all it can to hide what is going to happen later.
As always, different countries have totally different concepts of what to put in a trailer.
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Post by rikita on Aug 7, 2022 21:28:31 GMT
Mi Iubita Mon Amour is a fish-out-of-water movie, a genre I like almost as much as road trip movies. It's about a group of young women going on a sort of hen party trip to Romania (not everybody's first choice). The car and all of the baggage are quickly stolen while they're picnicking at a service station. But that is where they meet Nino, a gypsy who speaks French and who takes them home because the police stations are closed at night. He actually lives in Paris most of the time, and all the rest of the family seem to have done so at different times. His life in Paris is not glorious because he often sleeps in the street and he makes a living selling things he has found in the trash or selling cheap beer in buckets at minor music concerts at Place de la République. I've seen these people as long as I have lived in Paris. The Romanian family is not at all delighted to have these unexpected guests, but they warm up little by little. They are being harrassed by someone who lent money for the mother's operation and whom they can't pay back. And of course gypsies are generally considered to be scum in Romania just like in the rest of Europe. Nino falls in love with one of the French women even though he is only 17 (looks older because a hard life just about always makes you look older). Bittersweet moments ensue. The movie was made on an ultra-low budget with a technical crew of just two people: a camerawoman and a sound technician. i suppose i am overthinking things, but i keep wondering if the first part of the title is a grammatical form i am not aware of, a language other than romanian that is just kind of similar, or a simple grammatical error (and if the latter, whether that is on purpose).
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2022 3:11:21 GMT
I would suppose that it is Roma dialect.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2022 19:03:52 GMT
The French movie Year of the Shark (L'année du réquin), pretends to be a comedy at first, but all humour ends when people start getting chewed to bits. A maritime gendarme is on the verge of retirement when the problem arises, but she demands to stay on the job no matter what her superiors say. It is not a good movie, is clearly inspired by Jaws, but it is not uninteresting. The directors are the Boukherma brothers (Ludovic and Zoran), whose last movie was not very good either, but they definitely show promise for the future.
Bullet Train is everything you've read, seen and heard but even wackier than that. And yes, it is sort of fun to watch, but this is definitely a case of checking your brains at the door. If I were a represntative of Japan Railways or any Japanese security force, I would want to file a lawsuit against this movie since there is total mayhem at all times and they absolutely never intervene even when the train is half destroyed. I at least looked forward to the 30 second cameo by Channing Tatum and the 3-second cameo by Ryan Reynolds (to mirror the 3-second cameo by Brad Pitt in the director's previous movie Deadpool 2). Apparently absolutely nothing was filmed in Japan due to covid. It was all on a set.
I knew absolutely nothing about the Italian movie Supereroi (Superheroes), but it enchanted me once I got over my initial confusion. It's a love story between a physics professor and a cartoonist and their friends in Milan, spanning about (how long?) ten years, told completely out of order with flashbacks. There is love, there are breakups, there are tragedies, joy and tears. It reminded me very much of the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1970s. Even though I enjoy private projections, I was dismayed to be the one and only spectator in the cinema. This movie deserves to be seen by more people.
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Post by rikita on Aug 8, 2022 21:40:44 GMT
yeah, i was also wondering that - but rromani is very different to romanian, so it should be something completely different (all words i find in my dictionary relating to love are completely different, and "my" is something like "mure" or "muri" or "muro") - i suppose it could be something like a rromani-influenced use of romanian words or something like that. but since i can't find any explanation online, it might really just be a form i was just not aware of ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2022 5:13:21 GMT
Des feux dans la nuit (Fires in the Night) is a slow paced (dull?) story of a tiny coastal fishing village where life is really, really hard. The cinematography redeems the story a bit since it was fimed in a beautiful corner of Corsica. It is a loose adaptation of a Japanese novel. Life is so hard that some of the men have to sell themselves as indentured servants far away, leaving the teens to do the fishing Later there is a plague and half of the people die. But they wear beautifully made and pristinely clean outfits at all times, so we all have our priorities, I guess.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2022 6:15:22 GMT
Dodo is a strange Greek movie about a dodo suddenly appearing in the lives of a declining famous family. It is not really the comedy that it is disguised is because there is plenty of drama in the family -- a marriage planned for tomorrow but the bride (who might have cancer) doesn't love her future husband anymore, the creditors demanding payments, the trans woman whose presence is inappropriate, the old drunken actor, the Syrian refugees, the matron trying to hold it all together. And the dodo is dying. Actually, the CGI in the movie is better than it was when they made the trailer.
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