The famous American independent filmmaker Wes Anderson does not give up his recognizable, eccentric, baroque style. This time he strengthened the already standard star cast with some new strong trump cards such as Tom Hanks, …
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LOVE LIFE (2022, JPN) – 9/10
A year after Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” brought Japan the Oscar for the best foreign film, his colleague Koji Fukada presented a thematically and stylistically similar, but ultimately much, much better drama at the …
Continue readingTHE IDOL (2023, USA) – 5/10
Immediately after the first two episodes of this five-part mini-series were shown in Cannes, critics cut “The Idol” down. And indeed, it turned out to be even worse than I suspected, and the son of …
Continue readingGARBURA (2022, CRO) – 7.5/10
The literary rule of the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov has long been known that if we see a gun in the first act, someone will surely fire it in the last act. The rules …
Continue readingMAKE UP (2019, GBR) – 6/10
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Continue readingPARADISE: LOVE (2012, AUT) – 8/10
The triptych “Paradise” is probably still the most famous thing shot by the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl. With the first part of the trilogy, which was subtitled “Love”, Seidl presented himself at Cannes, and …
Continue readingFAREWELL TO THE LAND (1982,JPN)
The Japanese Mitsuo Yanagimachi presented a realistic social and extremely current drama in the main program of the festival in Berlin. We could call this not too well-known author the forerunner of his much more …
Continue readingA FACE IN THE CROWD (1957, USA)
Larry Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) is a drifter and drunk from rural Arkansas who is accidentally found in prison by radio host Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal). On a local radio station in rural northeast Arkansas, …
Continue readingRADIOGRAM (2017, BUG) – 6.5/10
Another film that takes us to Bulgaria during communism and the rule of the Romanian counterpart of Nicolae Ceausescu, Todor Živkov. The year is 1971 and the communist dictatorship is at its peak, but the …
Continue readingTHE GALLOWS POLE (2023, GBR) – 7/10
Shane Meadows is a great British filmmaker now in his middle generation who I always like to say brought traditional British kitchen-sink realism into the 21st century. From the very beginnings and his first films, …
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