I think that David Mackenzie’s prison drama (Hell or High Water) was also the first film in which I noticed the then young English acting hopeful Jack O’Connell. The very next year, young Jack appeared …
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I think that David Mackenzie’s prison drama (Hell or High Water) was also the first film in which I noticed the then young English acting hopeful Jack O’Connell. The very next year, young Jack appeared …
Continue readingThis ambitious and quite hermetic historical drama full of symbolism, written by Marco Dutra and Caetano Gotardo as screenwriters and directors, premiered in the official program of the festival in Berlin, but “All the Dead …
Continue readingFrom Switzerland comes this extremely bizarre, even surreal, absurdist combination of drama, black comedy and fantasy, filmed in Italian, which premiered at the most famous Swiss festival, Locarno. The main character of the film …
Continue readingWe learned a long time ago that people tend to believe in various logic and common sense simply impossible and unrealizable stories that go against all the laws of nature, so there is a …
Continue readingHere we finally have a recent Ukrainian film in which the tension with Russia is not the theme, but “My Thoughts Are Silent” is a somewhat bizarre, almost Kaurismaki humor drama – a tragicomedy. “My …
Continue readingIt does not share this French activist thriller – drama in name only with the American series in which Billy Bob Thornton was a lawyer haunted by personal demons, but he did not hesitate to …
Continue readingDutch actor Rutger Hauer has been the first choice for villains in American films for years, and after the role of Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s legendary “Blade Runner”, the role of the highway killer …
Continue readingLuchino Visconti’s masterpiece is rightly considered the pinnacle of Italian neorealism. “Rocco and his brothers” also represents Visconti’s break with neorealism and he later devoted himself mainly to grandiose, epic historical dramas about modern Italian …
Continue readingIt just so happened that, just a month or two apart, I came across two films by the Romanian filmmaker Bogadan George Apetri. The first is the very good thriller “Neidentificat”, and with the next …
Continue readingThis boring mix of psychological drama and horror turned out to be a perfect choice for falling asleep and a movie that anyone could fall asleep to within two or three minutes. Screenwriter and director …
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