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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
Reviews 54
Love, Actually
for Szerelem (1971)
Hungary, 1953, during the Stalinian purges. A woman is waiting for the very hypothetical release of her husband, in prison for political reasons. Unemployed, on the verge on poverty, she takes...
Written on November 9th, 2019 07:42
Coney Island Baby
for Little Fugitive (1953)
What was New York really like in the 50's ? And Brooklyn ? To know this, we can try to find articles from Life, read a few novels or see the photos of Vivian Maier and Saul Leiter. Or more easily,...
Written on November 9th, 2019 13:58
Bloody Saturday
for Violent Saturday (1955)
R. Fleischer, a.k.a efficiency in film directing. Regarded as a gifted crafstman rather than a real « auteur » Fleischer is a real « product » of the studio system of the golden age of Hollywood....
Written on November 14th, 2019 17:36
The man who knew too little
for Vertigo (1958)
First of all, it's a bit challenging to speak about the movie to people who haven't seen it, but as Chris Marker said : « Do those who haven't seen Vertigo deserve to be spoken to ? » Let's try...
Written on November 15th, 2019 11:31
The Unbearable Lightness of Emptiness
for The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
It starts with an operation, « grand » music and slow camera movements. A warning : it's going to bleed and we're going to get to the « heart » of an American family. It's a story of revenge, meant...
Written on November 16th, 2019 09:00
Mississipi Learning
for Mud (2012)
Can you, must you be faithful ? Can you be true to what you once were, to the ones you love, to the ones you hate ? Is living giving up ? What happens when the crystal of childhood meets the mud of...
Written on November 18th, 2019 14:55
No Country for All Men
for Paris, Texas (1984)
It begins like a western movie. A desert under a scorching sun. A bird of prey. It goes on like a road-movie. Two men driving from Texas to L.A. Then it turns into a melodrama. Torn people, a...
Written on November 26th, 2019 07:45
Rock The Dacha!
for Leto (2018)
Following teenage girls who are going to a rock-concert, entering through a back door, we break into the movie like burglars. We are in Russia in the early 80's and rock'n'roll if of course...
Written on December 14th, 2019 07:17
Only God Forgives
for Ida (2013)
She goes to God amidst the deflagration of the snow, the blackness of Man and childhood thrown out of a window. She is as naked in her walk as she was yesterday in the arms of her first lover,...
Written on January 9th, 2020 12:08
