Monthly Archives: August 2017

men at war (Film: Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017)

I fail to join the chorus of praise from critics and many film fans for Dunkirk. I came with big expectation to this film, not only because I read the critics, but also because Christopher Nolan is a director whose … Continue reading

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the enemy is not what we believed (Film: The Beguiled – Nicole Kidman, 2017)

Director Sofia Coppola has built a name of herself clearly distinct from the one of her illustrious father by describing the world of women, their fears and tragedies, their anxieties and ambiguities, their relation with the world of men and … Continue reading

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Holocaust – the story of the people who helped (Film: The Zookeeper’s Wife – Jessica Chastain, 2017)

It’s not easy to make a good fiction movie about the Holocaust. The story was told many times from different perspectives, it has a well known ending and a definite set of tragic victims and of evil characters. Although the … Continue reading

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summer entertainment (Film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Luc Besson, 2017)

The first two minutes of Luc Besson‘s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are one of the funniest introductions that I have seen on the big screen in the last few years. After the next 15 minutes I … Continue reading

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old school cinema (Film: Obsession – Brian De Palma, 1976)

They do not make films like this one any longer. Usually this sentence when found in the review of a movie is supposed to be appreciative. Not in the case of Brian De Palma‘s Obsession. The film is made in … Continue reading

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