Upside down shots, Super 8 dream sequences, a Kraftwerk song - Rohrwacher seems immune to make anything feel cheesy. She is an expert in making the visuals the main storyteller. No aesthetic is ever too much, is ever out of place. Instead, her films are oozing human interaction and emotion. Using the rural Italian underworld as a backdrop for a perspective on life that verges on fantasy but strikes a chord that makes her protagonists seem like the most unreal,…
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 2020
Monumental piece for German Cinema.
Refugee Francis aspires to become a good person, but only digs himself deeper and deeper in the quicksand of the criminal underbelly of Berlin. Myriads of wrong decisions, the incapability of discerning artificially produced from real emotions, hopelessness. The three hours really feel like at least three hours. You gotta appreciate suffering through a movie before doing this to yourself.
Some of the camera work, the score and especially Albrecht Schuch‘s performance make this poetic…
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Emilia Pérez 2024
A lot has been said about the shortcomings of this film regarding the communities it is failing to represent in ways that are helpful or at least not hurtful.
But on top of all that it’s also just a really bad movie. A ton of bad ideas that should’ve been stopped in their tracks. The few ideas that could’ve turned into something cool or original were really poorly executed. Usually I love to appreciate good things in something bad and I hate to be a hater - but I enjoyed nothing about this.
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