The new German film God of Happiness was shown on the 4th of July as the opening film of the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival and won two top awards – Best Director award for Dito Tsintsadze and Ralf M. Mendle received the award for Best Cinematography. It is a tragi-comedy set in modern Germany
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Knight of Cups Review
The film “Knight of Cups” is a big disappointment for cinema lovers. Even fans of the famous arthouse director Terrence Malick were not satisfied with his new production. It is obvious that Malick wanted to create a film à la Dolce Vita about the meaningless life of the artistic elite. However given that Fellini’s film
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Nature of Life in Cinema
by Günther Kramer Essays, Film
“Ex Machina” is a science fiction film which tells a story of a young programmer, Caleb who is invited by his employer, Nathan, to administer the Turing test to a female robot, Ava who has Artificial Intelligence. The film investigates the subject of creation of a woman which has a long history in both literature
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Youth (2015) Review
The film “Youth” (La giovinezza) by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a reflection of the deep crisis in Italian cinema. After the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1960s the crisis started and became inescapable. Director Sorrentino tells the story of two close friends vacationing in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. One
