Portuguese actor and wannabe film-maker that goes from passionate to grumpy quite quickly when it comes to movies
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Nomadland 2020
How can a movie with no narrative structure, no story, no directing originality, no particular cinematography and with a simply blank rythm be nominated to so many oscars?
It's is undoubtedly profound, and a huge critic to capitalism, social expectations and materialism. It portrays a some kind of hidden reality of live's reinvention complementing the capacity of surviving and finding happiness.
But this kind of documentary style stripes the movie out of any dramatic capacity and removes conflict in a…
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1917 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
What a breathtaking war movie, combining war's violence with an immersive long take, making us feel we're stuck, right there, in that horrible maze, with the characters.
Thought the cuts aren't that amazing as in Birdman, where I actually questioned myself how the hell did they cut some shots, here the long take is taken to a whole diferente level, adding a dose of poetry to the passing of time in the narrative and reducing the acts to two. Yet…
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Variações: Guardian Angel 2019
O filme sobre um dos artistas mais emblemáticos de Portugal, contado numa perspetiva mais suave, poética e, até melancólica. Apesar de um exercício interessante, não estou convicto que era assim que gostaríamos que a história do variações fosse contada. Esperava algo mais dinâmico e impactante, com um ritmo mais rápido, alucinante e até berrante. Ficamos com a sensação que o António Variações era só uma pessoa que se vestia extravagantemente e cortava cabelos, gostava de conhecer melhor os traços da…
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Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019
It takes a lot of courage to make a movie like this, denouncing real people who are still alive and in active, in public office.
The arts must be brave and address the real issues of humanity, and this movie obviously does it all in a very audacious way.
This is the main merit of Brexit: The Uncivil War, among many others.And all this is made in a very smart way, by showcasing all the strategy behind Brexit without…
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