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When i saw the movie length i discouraged a bit, but actually despite nothing particularly extraordinary happens, the movie flew along easily. Maybe because it's a film about a part of life i've already lived, maybe because it's extraordinarily simple in the best meaning of the word.It's a very natural movie and natural it's the way it' acted, brilliantly.Moving in some parts, very well shot, beautiful photography, a very brilliant and true film about life.

Harsh, cynical fate narrated in this plot, that's also about the hardness and hypocrisy of power. Technically i'd say masterly shot, wonderful photography and locations, very good characters (actors).Very brilliant movie.

Beyond the plot that reminds me of neorealistic style, imho this is a film about the contrast between the ex-peasants and the big city. The formerly peasants who came from the rural areas are the only positive characters of the movie; the guy struggle to keep naive as he can, but ultimately the violence and the opportunism of the city catches him. A masterpiece.

This beautiful chinese movie reminds me of neorealism. It' s the struggle for justice of a woman, who despite being pregnant struggles for it. It's also the archetypal story of naive paesants who have to go to the city to get their deals done and that's common to many of our ancestors. The characters are really realistic, and there's a wonderful acting by Gong Li.

IMHO this is a very good movie; good plot, wonderful fotography, great direction and above all a masterly acting by the male star. A must see.

Great great great movie imho. The plot is not particularly original, since it resembles a bit the one of another famous war movie, but the rythm, the direction and images make of 1917 two hours of great cinema.

Imho that's a masterpiece. A kind of unorthodox western movie, nice plot, wonderful photography, nice characters, nice music sketches, great landcapes and views, a must see.

This is a taken from a nice true story; it's about a woman who might seem a bit bizarre and get to be considered really sick and crazy for some misunderstandings and errors, but is able to get herself out in a brilliant way and thanks to her daughter. Plot takes place in Seattle and the Antarctic.

IMHO that's a great film. I am too lazy to narrate the plot, anyway a very good direction with characters portrayed in an excellent way. It's noir, sometimes it's funny, it's a drama but sometimes it has got the traits of a comedy. Excellent screenplay and photography, masterful acting too. Outstanding Frances McDormand.

This is a very beautiful and courageous film, that actually is kind of two films in one: a neorealist film about a group of poor and exploited peasants, and a symbolic film in the second half. In the plot, despite the lasts are doomed to be the lasts, the lasts are the only ones capable of dignity, naivety, innocence, the key player above all. The whole film is shot outdoor in Italy.

This is a beautiful film, about the fusion of art and mind during the story told in the plot: the rise of a dancing star from the struggle of a full life devoted to dance, to the even much bigger struggle once she gets the key role in a show. The two faces of the role, the white swan and the black swan, magnify in her the struggle with her inner daemons, narrated in the film as it was an intense stream of conscoiusness. Masterful acting by Natalie Portman.

To start with, for direction, cinematography and photography this is a very very beautiful film. The plot tells a tragic story that crosses the trip of a truck driver, a story of violence, moral and material poverty, injustice, corruption, which will involve himself too as a victim.

This film covers more or less 30 years of italian (not only) history, and tells the story of the mafia penitent Tommaso Buscetta, who accepted to collaborate with the judge Giovanni Falcone. The plot is accurate to what really happened and doesn't leave much to the director. Great acting by Pierfrancesco Favino playing Buscetta.

IMHO there are two main kinds of films: the ones that empty your mind with action and plot, and those which take a form of meditation and let feelings and thinking arise. Of course this film is in the latter. Song to song is coincidentally set in the music business as a meditation about feelings, love, power, sex, beauty and family. The pace, as usual in Malick, is slow; the grace and the beauty of images and characters is everywhere. Surprised by the presence of rockstar Patti Smith amid others, who acts as a mentor. A masterpiece.

As usual with Malick, this movie resembles a stream of consciousness, a philosophical quest for meaning in life. The key player is a man who lost his purpose, left his wife, and in his search for a forgotten sense surrounds himself with surrogates, in the form of wealth, sex, parties, very beautiful women, but all this distracts him while the lack of sense is always there in the background. The lost beauty in the soul/self contrasts with the beauty of images, typical in Malick's cinema.

IMHO a great film, very high quality cinema.There could be absolutely nothing new in a love affair between married people (and with children) but the political environment and the deployment of the affair make it breathtaking and intense. Great characters, great women's scenes, great shots outdoor in Jerusalem. For me this is a must see.

This is a brilliant drama, occasionally very funny, about a group of left-out and "loosers" women in nowadays France. The topic is faced in a very true way, especially the characters are very true, probably many have been taken from the street. These women frequent a center where little by little, also through very sad situations, they retrieve their dignity. Brilliant ending.

This film is first of all very beautiful in sceneries and cinematography, the latter by Gokhan Tiryaki. It's an existential film that uses the searching for a corpse, which will last one night, to tell a universal story about the misery of men in their lives and societies, and the dirt behind their small poor lives. That contasts with the beauty and immensity of landscape that's behind what's happening. The characters are masterfully described, also thanks to the beautiful closeups (and the very good actors, of course). This misery of the human events seems to contrast also with the women of the film, who are only two (it seems really a film of men) and who appear to be deeply dignified, innocent and angelic (same for the child).

This is a beautiful film, with a very original and exciting plot. Characters are great, too. Because of a kidnapping of kids, their parents become kidnappers too, but nothing as it seems...you'll see. Thriller is not my favourite genre, but i got really excited until the end.

A very nice film about the pride of two old brothers, pride for what they've been doing for their entire life: raising up rams of a special and rare race, while not talking to each other for 40 years, until the love for those rams smashes the silence between them. It's also very well shot, with some astonishing views. Simple but also so strong and beautiful.

Nice film, about the bind between a fiction book written by Edward and his ex-wife reading it during a period of personal crisis.

Very brilliant film, with (not only) children acting very naturally. A simple story of brother and sister hurrying up to lend each other the only pair of shoes they have, after the brother lost them. It's also a story of material poverty of the children, but richness in feelings and beauty between a brother and a sister. It reminded me of some neorealism italian cinema movement. It's a wonderful example of cinema based on feelings and acting rather than budget.

Nice film about traditions, conservatism, freedom and hypocrisy. An uncle and his mother left with five young female nephews after their parents died, spend a whole summer segregating the five to find husbands for them. With the beginning of the summer the five girls pass from high-school, sea, friends and boyfriends to a real prison in a very conservative environment, which get worse everyday. Despite the grace of the five girls who are able to have fun also in the traditional environment, the hypocrisy of their watchers gets unmasked. A very nice film about the struggle between tradition and progress, and the grace and freedom of the girl power.

I think this is a film about the uncertainty, changeability and unpredictability of human feelings, at least for whom who try to live them sincerely, showed and directed in the Malick's way: slowness, grace, tenderness, beauty of the images the screen and the lights, and voice-over. This concerns not only the unstable love between the main couple, Neil (Ben Affleck) and Tatiana (Olga Kurylenko) but also the faith of a priest (Javier Bardem) in front of life events, and the affair between Neil and Jane (Rachel McAdams). Malick doesn't give answers; better, the only answer in front of this is the beauty of images and feelings of the true moments, enriched by the grace of love (which is of course the grace of Olga Kurylenko's playing). It seems like in front of this beauty, the film says that yes, this beauty and grace is worth the struggles who arise from uncertainty, changeability and unpredictability of human feelings.