New Movie review • Civil War by Alex Garland: A Dystopian Vision Reimagined
Alex Garland, known for his gripping narratives in films like Ex Machina and Annihilation , returns with a provocative and unsettling look at America in Civil War . As the title suggests, Garland dives deep into a world torn apart by internal strife, but with his signature touc…
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Movie review • Poor things by Yorgos Lanthimos: A Quiet Pulse of a Reborn Heart
Through stark contrasts between Dr. Baxter’s steampunk laboratory and the expansive, organic world beyond, Poor Things delves into the clash between scientific control and natural freedom. Bella’s journey, both personal and philosophical, unfolds in a beautifully constructed wo…
Movie review • Under Your Skin ( Käpy selän alla ) by Mikko Niskanen: The hottest of its time.
A film which aroused aggravation, opposition, but also fervent admiration. Under your skin is considered by the Finnish critic Peter von Bagh as one of those pivotal films which marked in Finland, during the Sixties, the passage "from the old [to] the new cinema. " A…
Movie review • Yi Yi by Edward Yang : Life, and nothing else.
Sweet and beautiful popular chronicle, without zest of morbidity or tearful pathos, where each shot is received like a wonder and encourages a return to childhood. Undisputed figure of the Taiwanese new wave, alongside Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang had the most important success …
Movie review • We All Loved Each Other So Much by Ettore Scola
History, with a capital H, was a melting pot for modern Italian comedy that, at the dawn of the sixties, gradually detached itself from the slapstick and comedy of manners. Works like The Great War (Mario Monicelli 1959), Everybody Go Home (Luigi Comencini, 1960), or A Diffi…
Movie review • Funeral parade of roses by Toshio Matsumoto
"I am the wound, the knives that strike, The blows that crush, the head that reels, I am wrenched limbs and grinding wheels, Victim and hangman, as you like!...", quote from the poem Héautontimorouménos by Charles Baudelaire (Greek title meaning "The Self Tormente…
Movie review • Transes by Ahmed El Maânouni
Izza Genini attends a concert by the group Nass El Ghiwane in Paris At the beginning of the 80s. Fascinated by their performance, this ambassador of Moroccan cinema in France offers her friend director, Ahmed El Maânouni, to make a report on the group. Initially, the project c…
Movie review • Close Up by Abbas Kiarostami : beyond truth and lying
In Tehran, a journalist from Sorush magazine thinks he has a scoop after discovering a curious case of deception: he has just learned that a certain Sabzian pretended to be the filmmaker Moshen Makhmalbaf to an Iranian bourgeois family, that he convinced to make in the mo…
