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Burden of Dreams 1982
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Burden of dreams is a film directed by Les Blank in 1979 in Peru. It is a making-of documentary of the film Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner Herzog. While Herzog overcomes problem after problem during his filming, Blank highlights the reality of the film and emphasizes the iron will of its director. To put the documentary in context, I went to watch Fitzcarraldo afterwards.
The documentary does the same thing as the film it documents; that is, it shows the quest…
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Babel 2006
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Babel is an international co-production directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and released in 2006. We follow four different storylines linked by one event; the accidental shooting of an American tourist by two children in Morocco. From there, we see what happens to them, the American tourists, their kids back home that gets taken to Mexico, and the Japanese man who gave the rifle initially to the Moroccan family.
I had a lot of difficulty to watch this movie and actually…
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Bon Cop Bad Cop 2006
Bon Cop Bad Cop, directed by Érik Canuel and starring Partick Huard and Colm Feore, was released in 2006 and became one of the biggest hits in the history of Quebec and Canadian cinema. Its premise and its desire to bring together two often distant cultures are probably a contributing factor.
The idea of translating the French/English rivalry into the buddy movie genre is clever and obvious. The two protagonists proudly embody caricatures of their respective provinces; the Quebecer has…
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