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American Woman 2018
The tragedy always hits when you expect it the least. Just when you feel the most comfortable in the ordinariness of day-to-day routine, the life kicks the stool out of your feet and watch you hanging in the air with your face turning dark red and hands frenetically trying to break a tight rope. Any loss is a punch in the gut; the loss of the loved one, however, is one of the most agonizing torments the human being can…
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Radioactive 2019
Marie Curie may have died more than eighty years ago, but destructive power of her discovery continues to strike, and after Hiroshima, Chernobyl and North Korean nuclear program, its poisonous rays has finally polluted the world of cinema, as Marjane Satrapi, for some reason, has decided to make a movie based on her life, and in doing so, has dropped a major toxic bomb on those poor souls who decided to give it a time.
It didn’t take me long…
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Beanpole 2019
The older I get the more loyal I become towards movies I consume. Whereas in the past, I cared a lot about “intellectual” component, foolishly believing that watching serious, cumbersome slogs overstuffed with metaphors will somehow make me smarter, now, I just want to be entertained. The power of cinema is in the filmmakers’ ability to be good at telling stories and not in narcissistic attempts to show the audiences how intelligent they are. Nothing could be easier than pretending…
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Stealing Beauty 1996
All attempts to adequately review Stealing Beauty are doomed to fall short. Bertolucci’s film is a dense concentration of senses which need to be experienced by oneself. Delicate Tuscany sun, exhilarant summer breeze, chirring cicadas, lust and insouciance floating in the air… Once you arrive with Liv Tyler’s heroine to her mother’s friends’ villa in a picturesque Italian countryside, you will want to stay here forever.
That’s not to say that the movie is a lightweight eye-candy. On the contrary,…
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