The American Friend somehow manages to coalesce the inner psychological turmoil of the main character - a German maker of picture-frames recently given a terminal diagnosis - with the gritty urban landscape of 1970's Hamburg and other cities.
It's hard to think of a film that so effectively marries the inner mind with the the outer urban environment in such a tight way as Wim Wenders achieves here.
Both the inner and outer worlds depicted in the film seem to…
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Empire of Light 2022
Life can be hard. It can grind you down as the years roll on by. But it's by trying to find the light amidst the darkness that allows us to keep going despite all that bears down on us.
The light can take many forms; the stability of a tightly-bound community; the passion of a loving romance; the spiritual pull of great music; an afternoon on an empty beach; the transcendent beauty of the way Roger Deakins captures the subtle…Translated from by
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Mary Magdalene 2018
In a time when Atheism seems to be hip and cool, many will pass over this film with nothing more than a cursory glance, but it's worth paying greater attention because the subtle idea at the centre of the film is actually quite profound and goes right to the heart of the human condition.
While the men following Jesus are all waiting for a revolutionary material change in their surroundings as evidence that the new Kingdom has arrived, Mary Magdalene…Translated from by -
The Fall 2019
The Fall.
We are pulled from the Tree by the selfishness and unthinking behaviour of others and given life. We are given an identity. Life feels cruel, hard, dark and suffocating as we endure The Fall. We must find a way to break free from that which binds us in this feeling using the vibrations of the universe.
Once free, we find ourselves at liberty, no longer bound, but at the bottom, with nothing but a glimmer of light far above us, shining down and showing the way. We have work to do; we must climb towards the light.Translated from by
