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Chasing Coral 2017
Chasing Coral opens up with astonishingly beautiful underwater imagery. Inside the vast oceans there's a different world: colorful, complex, full of life - and it's all quite alien to us. We follow people who have a passion for this uncharted wonderland, specifically coral reefs, the most monumental structures in the whole nature.
The tone soon becomes much more somber as it becomes evident that this form of life, and the whole ecosystem built around it, is in real danger of…
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The Other Side of Hope 2017
Some critics have scolded Kaurismäki for repeating himself. Certainly he has his beloved themes and tropes that he hangs on to. He follows the outcasts and the downtrodden in the underbelly of the Finnish society that is curiously stuck to 50s cars, honest rock'n'roll music and wry humour delivered in the most deadpan way possible.
And it still works. The new element here is Khaled, a Syrian refugee accidentally stranded in Helsinki. We follow his struggle against the bureaucratic machine…
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Threads 1984
Warning: this is so accurate depiction of life after a nuclear war that it will haunt you, likely forever. A world completely devoid of hope, love and human warmth. The whole second half of the movie is tremendous in its despair and graphic horrors, the few struggling human beings observed like ants in a nature documentary. I was shaken to my core.
A horrifying masterpiece.
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