Gurinder Chadha’s skillful examination of the political turmoil in 1947 India. The picture Viceroy’s House directed by Gurinder Chadha was screened out of competition at the Berlinale. The film tells the story of love between Jeet and Aalia set against the historical scenes surrounding partition of India in 1947. Their differing religious backgrounds become a
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Elle Review
Paul Verhoeven, favorite director of many film fans has finally broken his ten year cinematic hiatus with the new film Elle. The motion picture was shot in France with a French crew and actors. Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch filmmaker, who started to make films in the Netherlands (Turkish Delight, Katie Tippel, Soldier of Orange)
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The Student (2016) – Review
The Student is an amusing character study of a religious fanatic “The Student” – “(M)uchenik” directed by Kirill Serebrennikov is an attempt to reconsider religious fanaticism in the modern world. The picture is based on the play “Martyr” by German author Marius von Mayenburg and it was adapted to the reality of modern Russia. In a
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Paradise (2016) – Review
The film “Paradise” directed by Andrei Konchalovsky was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards. The subject of “Paradise” is the Holocaust, which has been often covered in film and has always been a popular topic at the Oscars. Konchalovsky tried to avoid clichés common in films about the topic.
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La-La Land Review
La-La Land is a very important film. It received so many Oscars, but we have seen weak films awarded before that. It is important as a proclamation of incompetence. This film invaded the musical genre which traditionally belonged to artists who can sing and dance. Falsification of art began a long time ago, for instance
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Bridge of Spies Review
“Bridge of Spies” is the new film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Joel and Ethan Coen made in 2015. It received positive feedback from critics, garnered many awards and nominations and even received an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor (Mark Rylance). The film set during the cold war is a
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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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The Revenant Review
Film “The Revenant” by Alejandro González Iñárritu is highly acclaimed for its realism combined with almost fantastical landscapes. The film is incredibly beautiful and was shot using natural light and with minimal special effects. ‘’The light is very reduced here in winter, and we are not shooting with any electrical lighting, just natural light. And
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Deadpool Review
The film is based on Marvel Comics about the former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who was a subject of a horrible experiment which healed him from cancer and gave him incredible super power, but scarred him for life. With the help of his supernatural abilities Deadpool tries to exterminate the man who
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The Danish Girl Review
“The Danish Girl” is yet another politically correct movie by Tom Hooper. No doubt that the topic – the story of the first transgender patient was chosen by him not by accident. To criticize the film is a hard task when critics can be interpreted as intolerant and so on. However the director was not
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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
