The idea was great, but the director spends more than half of the short film getting to what really matters, and that's when it becomes worthwhile. Out of the nine minutes, only the last two minutes are truly worth it, and it gets quite funny until the end, where he delivers his usual punchline. I think it could have sped through the silent figures (or at least included some music) and spent more time developing the dialogues that are made…
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Ten 2002
Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. When the film ended, I gave it an 8, but only later did I discover that everything is scripted, and the film grows even more with that, as the actors' performances are impressive. Amin Maher, the boy who plays the son, delivers a standout performance and is quite irritating (today he is a trans activist who prefers to be called Amina and lives in Berlin). The dialogue, everything that is…
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Freedomfighters 1996
A film that deceives many people but that I found quite mediocre. It's a film that should have been made by someone truly revolutionary and, most importantly, directed by a woman; Vicente Aranda simply had no idea what he was doing. The conservative roots of the church are extremely visible throughout the entire film. There is no rigorous analysis of the church's ideological stance during the Spanish Civil War, not to mention the fact that the director has numerous films…
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Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020
Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, in my opinion, it deserved the award, but the subject is something the Christian European world wants to pretend didn't happen. I am a strong critic of the UN, and in this film, you can get a taste of this issue, even though the movie doesn't explain why nothing was done against the Serbs, who were America's hope against Yugoslavia, the last socialist stronghold in Europe after the fall of…
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