While working my job at the local cinema I saw this little girl and her mother exiting the cinema while Dumbo was still playing inside. They were standing right outside the door when I saw the mother comforting the daughter, asking her what was wrong. It took a while before the little girl, intensively crying, was able to say: "I just don't think Dumbo will ever see her mother again!" - and I can relate.
Even though this film might…
Based on the best-selling memoirs of David and Nic Sheff, Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet plays father and son in this heatbreaking movie instructed by Felix van Groeningen. The son Nic suffers from a drug addiction; a tendency which has been a part of the family for many years. Nic's father David tries to help, but as the addiction gets more and more out of control and Nic repeatedly screws up, David's rising disappointment makes him distance himself from his…
To me this film is something special. It shows the life of a 13-year-old boy called Stevie aka. 'Sunburned' who spends his summer trying to navigate between the troubles at home and a group of new frinds that he meets in a skateshop. Stevie is a humble and loving kid who barely speaks when hanging out with the older and cooler boys. It reminds me so much of myself when I was a kid in the 1990s; hanging around in…
There is no doubt that Alfonso Cuarón has put a lot of thought into making this movie. Already through the opening credits we experience a 4 minute and 30 seconds long take of a floor soaking in water before introducing us to the storys protagonist Cleo working as a maid. The film tells the story of the city in which Cuarón grew up in the 1970s, Mexico City, and especially the women that influenced his upbringing - not only his…
