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La Haine 1995
The hate, the anger, and the energy are palpable in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine. It’s not like you’re watching a movie, or even a documentary. It’s like you’re there, with Said, and Vinz, and Hubert, feeling their frustration, their helplessness, and their rage, and experiencing the tension build up, as the hours go by, resulting in that crazy climax!
The movie is not slick or clean. But it’s raw, it’s edgy! It’s real, and so very believable! The story about…Translated from by -
Monster 2023
Biases, prejudices, and misunderstandings come to head in this beautiful movie, Monster, from Hirokazu Koreeda, about childhood, innocence, friendship, bullying and abuse. Nothing is a as it seems. It’s too easy and instinctive to see a monster in the other to make sense of the situation. But do we have the courage to get to the bottom of things, to truly understand, and to fully accept? When it comes to stories about children, siblings, parents, and families, no one does…
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Incendies 2010
Wow! Every once in a while, you come across a movie that stops you in your tracks … for the sheer beauty in which the story is told, for the breath taking photography & cinematography, for the incredible acting & directing … but more importantly, it breaks your heart, it makes you want to cry, it makes you question the things people do, it makes you hate war, and war crimes, and hatred that’s all over, from the past to the present,…
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Past Lives 2023
People going about their everyday lives, carrying with them memories, both beautiful and painful, unable to change the present, not necessarily wanting to change it, for the present isn’t bad, just different from what could’ve been from the past … Beautiful, sensitive, subtle, simple & sweet! The kinda’ movie I’d like to make if ever …
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