Oppenheimer felt like I was watching a long movie trailer that gave all details away. Sketched with the same ‘Nolanesque’ —purposefully, or not— limited variety of dynamism, the film dries you down in an exhausting and all revealing exchange of lines, delivered by actors who, in lack of a better way, try to keep up with the fast-forward type of interactions.
The humor is the same humor you find in 2010’s films, which is not necessarily bad, if it should…
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Oppenheimer 2023
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Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
I think the meaning of justice has been contorsioned to apply itself on topics which have become the living shadows of what the concept truly means, even if it has not ever been immaculately considered and felt. Moral justice, a prefix which I shouldn’t even have to add, has been devalued and while conscious about it, action hasn’t always been the strongest point. I like to think of childhood as a blank page. The feeling often becomes bitter-sweet when one…
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The Watermelon Woman 1996
Sometimes you have to create your own history.
So good, so important, so intelligent.
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Wings of Desire 1987
Human beings are so oxymoronically limited to birth and Thanos, and yet so limitless in the little absolute that we devour obliviously. We are happy, however, with this little absolute, sometimes so happy that we become ignorant to any kind of metaphysical experience. But then, sometimes, as the film reveals, people let that fog settle, a fog for what is physical, yet it clears the way to a broader truth, or, an attempt to the other absolute at least. People…
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Ulysses' Gaze 1995
Ulysses’ Gaze is the most intriguing and beautiful portrayal of balkan fraternity I have ever seen. Times of destruction, betrayal and violation of human rights is incredibly well blended with the history of cinematography and Theo Angelopoulos’ spectacular passion. Just like Mirror, the reminiscences of childhood trigger a distortion of time. The few years from 1945 to 1948 passed quickly, as the Soviet Union’s red armies occupied Romania and the family’s goods were confiscated once the monarchy was dissolved and…
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Eternity and a Day 1998
There’s this weird isolating power that Eternity and a day had on me, almost as if there were barriers placed on the sides of my TV, almost as if there’s this huge flower inside of me that has no room to bloom anymore. My words could never do it justice, but only spoil it and maybe diminish its greatness. Added to my favorites.
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12:08 East of Bucharest 2006
Filmed after the RNW set off, it tries to combine humour (badly written) and realism, combination with which I don’t resonate at all. While the grotesque and ‘ugly style’, snow and bleak chroma reminds one of the other great films part of the wave, that is where the resemblance stops. Not to critique a film from the perspective that it doesn’t perfectly shape itself on the requirements, but, in my opinion, it simply fails at everything it tries to do.…
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Half Shaved 2013
Securistul - de ce vrei bre să mă tai?
Rebengiuc - Ca să se mire proștiiN-am putut să mă abțin
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Beyond the Hills 2012
Can I breathe now?
What more can I say about this than what I usually say about RNW films? Strong acting, great, great naturalistic writing, amazing analysis of detail, truth, the indispensable scenes in which a cop/doctor/anyone who has a higher position in society talks about intimate issues while at work, unbelievably subtle, yet perfect positioning of the camera, anxiety based on reality - which is the worst, as it isn’t helped by music or a certain type of camera…