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The Banishment 2007
"What happens, happens. Like a card game. You play the hand you're dealt."
(Aleksandr Baluev as Mark)Watching The Banishment is like wandering through a beautiful, desolate dream where everyone’s carrying secrets they’ll never tell you. It’s slow, painful, and weirdly hypnotic—like staring at a storm on the horizon that never quite arrives.
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Paradise Is Burning 2023
The movie had some good moments, a bit too long for what it’s worth!
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Chernobyl 2019
"My advice: tell the truth. These men work in the dark. They see everything."
For the average person, the indifferent one, the person with no real bond to the matter at hand, the person who's not a victim of this tragedy, whose family, relatives, friends, people are not and will probably not be a victim of this disaster, for that person and that person only this is a work of art, this is as good as a mixture of filmaking,…
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Eternity and a Day 1998
” Why, mother, nothing happens as we wish? Why? Why does one have to rot in silence torn between pain and desire? Why did I live my life in exile? Tell me mother, why can't one learn to love?”
You always expect such films especially with the greek mythology behind to be deep and profound, and that somehow you must be familiar with its notions to get the meanings, now that can be true yet "Eternity and a Day" didn't fail to deliver even to someone largely indifferent and simple minded like myself.
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