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Ortjens

Favorite films

  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Simon
  • Amélie
  • The Triplets of Belleville

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  • Rashomon

    ★★★½

  • Agatha and the Storm

    ★★★★½

  • XTC Just Don't Do It

  • Oxygen

    ★★★★

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  • Rashomon

    Rashomon

    ★★★½

    Not my kind of cinema. With that, the biggest "critical" point of the movie, is said. Of course, that is not a reason to say, according the many, a masterpiece is just a boring, average movie. But at least for me that made it less easy to watch this motion picture. Kurosawa's way of filming is beautiful, almost revolutionary for his time. The story is interesting and Rashomon's length keeps a perfect tempo. The theatrical way of acting is absolutely…

  • The Master

    The Master

    ★★½

    There was nothing to criticise about the directing. The choice of music was'nt bad. Few men can match this cast in performances. Even the humour didn't fail. And last but not least, the shots... What a beautiful way of filming. Yet the Master missed something essential for me. Something indescribable that a movie just simply needs to stay in memory. And it didn't have that. It gave me no impression. It gave me no new insight. It didn't give me…

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  • Paradise: Love

    Paradise: Love

    ★★★★½

    "Paradies: Liebe" is the first part of a new Austrian trilogy about 'Paradise'. For some of us that is a synonym for believing ("Paradies: Glaube") and for others it's hope ("Paradies: Hoffnung"). For the 50-year old Teresa, brilliantly played by Margarete Tiesel, it's obviously love (German: Liebe). Teresa decides to relax for her holiday in the comfort safari of Hotel Flamingo, in the nation of Kenya, a country that is for European women mainly focused on the male sex-tourism industry.…

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