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In the Company of Men 1997
Do we need films that are more audacious, quarrelsome, irreverent and do not fear taking risks? Absolutely yes. Do we need a new Neil LaBute? I am not sure. The implicit message of “In the company of men” seems to be conveyed by the first frame: a man goes out from the toilet and hesitates with the sign “men” above him, making us believe that this is going to be a story about… well, about dickheads. As a matter of…
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The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent 2024
When we were young, there was a character that always appeared in the films we loved: the coward or the hesitating person who, at the end, redeemed himself/herself, often through sacrifice, protecting the hero with his/her body and saving the main characters from death. We would call this character “the character touched by bravery”. But what happens to the character who cannot overcome fear? “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” is a Kafkian nightmare that is both hyperrealist (militias,…
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Days of Heaven 1978
In a past geological era, a friend of mine and I entered a projection room to claim that “The Deer Hunter” was about to be projected using a wrong aspect ratio… a few days ago, on a train, I sat in front of a group of kids who were watching and commenting an Avengers movie on a phone… I hate being the grandpa who longs for the golden age that has gone, so I shrug and I console myself thinking…
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Crash 1996
Crash vs Crash
*CHAPTER 2 AND EPILOGUE: David Cronenberg or the starry heavens above me and steel within me*
“Crash” is a masterpiece celebrating the fusion of the human and the mechanical and the perverse sexual attraction between skin and metal sheets…I could go on writing at least ten pages: a description of the film that is so exact that it makes us rather dissatisfied. If this description was enough, as it was a fulminating synecdoche, the sinuous initial panning…Translated from by
