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Gabor Csupo Un Ponte Per Terabithia
Gabor Csupo Un Ponte Per Terabithia
6 oct 12
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The film is indeed quite charming. There are a couple of clichés in the plot that I might have avoided (notably, the bully's redemption...), but aside from that, it works: it has a decent pace, it engages, and it moves you. It’s a shame it’s marred by abysmal dubbing (aside from some spine-chilling translations, the protagonist's voice would put even Mr. Hyde to sleep) and by a truly nondescript male lead.
Dave Eggers L'Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio
Dave Eggers L'Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio
5 oct 12
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I’m reading it these days and I’m not enjoying it much... The guy writes too much about himself, as if he’s in a constant search for some "effect" that I still haven't quite figured out whether it’s pity (I don’t think so), empathy (probably), or something else I haven’t focused on yet (for sure). And - in all three cases, at least as far as I’m concerned - it’s not working very well. Personally, it’s not making me laugh, it’s not making me sad, and, above all, it’s not making me feel at all involved in the protagonist’s story. Then there are some episodes (e.g.: the beach assault) and digressions (e.g.: the one about the magazine) that really stretch on too long. To put it in extreme and somewhat brutal terms, I’m a bit bored.
Gabriele Muccino Come Te Nessuno Mai
Gabriele Muccino Come Te Nessuno Mai
4 oct 12
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And yet, in my opinion, this film, in some strange way, works. At least in part. Contrary to what the bewildered reviewer claims, teenagers ARE (not all of them, actually) "idiots, total morons, just plain fools, who protest, smoke, drink just for conformity and nothing more." I don't know about you, but certain conversations about sex, drugs, love, politics, whatever that the protagonists have remind me closely of those I had with my friends back in high school. Unlike Muccino's later filmography, this is a film with "medium" ambitions: it aims to capture a generation, but without claiming to say "the last word." And, in a way, it manages to do that. To be fair, the overall acting is terrible and the ending is a court martial, but the music is good, there's not much to complain about in terms of direction, Silvio Muccino still doesn't put on any pretentious airs, and some of the caricatures presented at least make you smile (e.g.: the fascists).
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
27 sep 12
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P.S.: the killer is the mother.
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
27 sep 12
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I particularly remember the opening: 50 pages to describe one of the main characters as he walks out of his house gate with his car. Maybe it’s my problem for being too modern a reader and needing narrative rhythms from a NASCAR circuit, but maybe it’s just that I couldn’t care less about knowing what the protagonist's driveway is paved with.
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
Giorgio Faletti Io uccido
27 sep 12
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I also read it when it came out. Let's just say it caused quite a stir because no one expected that a comedian known to the general public mainly for the character of Vito Catozzo could manage to put together a documentary format with two coherent sentences. The final result, as far as I'm concerned, is fairly mediocre. There are some good elements, but they are diluted (as often happens with these "modern" thrillers) by unnecessary lengthiness and verbosity that should (or at least I believe...) give "depth" to the narrative and instead deflate and dry up the bag of nonsense.
Richard Curtis I Love Radio Rock
Richard Curtis I Love Radio Rock
22 sep 12
Voto:
Saw it last night: really cute. Not a masterpiece (it suffers, in my opinion, from some lapses in narrative tension), but some scenes are truly delightful and Kenneth Branagh is hilarious as the censor. It reminds me a bit of Cameron Crowe's movies (with first love experiences, the difficult relationship with parents, and a ton of music) just a bit less meandering.
David Brooks ATM - Trappola Mortale
David Brooks ATM - Trappola Mortale
22 sep 12
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Too long: your position and your thoughts are widespread and overly simplistic. There's no point in wasting all these lines on it. The movie is crap, and so far we all pretty much agree. What really surprised me is the almost total absence of tension throughout the entire film. One can overlook the absurdity of the screenplay (if I'm going to see the story of three guys trapped in an ATM at the mercy of the creature in the fur coat, I can't really complain...). But there are other aspects that leave one rather perplexed: almost total absence of music and, above all, a direction that seems not to believe in the narrative fiction of the film itself. And then the ending... who knows! In fact, bah!
David Cronenberg A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg A Dangerous Method
17 sep 12
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I didn’t like Last Night at all: verbose to the point of tedium, it tries in every way to elevate the discourse to a level that wants to be "high," but too often it makes everything feel overly constructed and forced (for example: the scene in the wine shop with Kiera and her ex is a prostate suicide, especially when he looks at her languidly and says, "Tell me something important..."). There are good scenes (like when her friend arrives at dinner and asks where her husband is), but also some things that border on the incomprehensible (for example: Kiera and the guy who are making out intensely in the elevator outside the restaurant - I seem to remember - only to find themselves in the very next scene on the couch at home sipping wine and chatting as if their respective hormones had gone out to buy cigarettes).
David Cronenberg A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg A Dangerous Method
17 sep 12
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In essence, between reviews and comments, everything I think has been said more or less: a film with excellent formal rigor, featuring some great actors, but somehow it never quite plunges the knife in as deeply as one would expect. Thumbs up for the male characters. Thumbs down, with the first phalanx stuck up the ass, for Knightley's performance: I wonder if she ever dislocated her jaw during the shoot. Double thumbs up, however, for Cronenberg: amidst undeniable ups and downs, he is still carrying on a thirty-year career that is enviable in both quantity and quality. His cinema has evolved immensely over time, while remaining true to itself, analyzing the theme of change in every aspect. I haven't seen Cosmopolis, and that does seem to be a misstep, but Spider, History, and A History of Violence (to name a few from the third millennium) are films that many directors would kill for having directed. This is all happening while people like Romero or Carpenter seem to have lost their inspiration quite some time ago.
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