NJ_lathouwers
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14 years
Reviews
Jiskefet (1990)
Funny, witty and brilliant
Jiskefet, one of the funniest Dutch shows ever! Jiskefet is a program, which shows sketches who are absurd, funny and intelligent. Every season there are different people in a different settings. For example there are 3 gay pirates in the time of the VOC called 'The gentlemen of the Brown Star' or MULTILUL, which resolves around a consultancy company who spend their days designing the most useless, dumb commercials.
However most important is that the quality of the sketches is so high that it brings you a story sometimes touching, sometimes absurd, but most of the time really funny. This is achieved due to a great script, great acting and brilliant characters.
Still, keep in mind that this isn't the average comedy. Other comedy series like Friends or two and a half men are quick paced, and rely on many one-liners. Jiskefet takes its time to build it's scenes, and thus is a little slower, but still more authentic to me. give it a try, search it on you-tube, and perhaps You'll like it.
10/10 (for Dutch standards) 10/10 (for English standards ;))
However most important is that the quality of the sketches is so high that it brings you a story sometimes touching, sometimes absurd, but most of the time really funny. This is achieved due to a great script, great acting and brilliant characters.
Still, keep in mind that this isn't the average comedy. Other comedy series like Friends or two and a half men are quick paced, and rely on many one-liners. Jiskefet takes its time to build it's scenes, and thus is a little slower, but still more authentic to me. give it a try, search it on you-tube, and perhaps You'll like it.
10/10 (for Dutch standards) 10/10 (for English standards ;))
A Single Man (2009)
Good debut for Tom ford but great performance by Colin Firth
'A single man' shows a day 9 months later after the partner of main character George died. We see how he tries to live on carrying the loss of his partner, on what normally would be a perfectly normal day.
This movie really is artistic, but not as intelligent. Many times the shots are there for artistic purpose rather then to show us the story. There are a lot of irrelevant Extreme close-ups on irrelevant objects or persons. The same case is with the filters used in the movie. A lot of different filters pass the eye, and that's a shame, because overall it feels just a bit over the edge with all that many of artistic shots. I also felt that when George sometimes was shown with a darker filter, the director simply said to me "pity tah fool! be sorry for him!" and I don't like it when a director comes up with such a simple solution for dramatizing purpose. To summarise it, it's all still a bit too chaotic and it lacks a chosen style .
Still Ford manages to show us what a day in the life of George looks like, and how he still feels the pain of his loss and loneliness many months later. The story is touching, and because there was the choice to only highlight one day of George his life, it takes us closer to his life. In that sense, it is a very touching story. You could almost feel George his pain, even tough it is very sublimely hid by Colin Firth.
As mentioned before the film mostly takes place on that one day, 9 months later after the death of the partner of George. On a normal average day not too many awkward things happen. The contrary is part of this movie. George meets and talks about the most not-average subject with the strangest people. It even gets to the point where a side character tells George that the weather is the reason for the 'strange light', which is actually another filter for... well you get the point.
To conclude it all, Tom Ford has done a good job for his first movie. If you don't mind a movie which tries to be beautiful just by creating art-like forced shots, and you like a touching story, then go see this. If you don't like that, then go for Colin Firth's performance. The way he delivers his part is tremendous, and he certainly would be a deserved winner should he be awarded with the Oscar.
7,5 out of 10
This movie really is artistic, but not as intelligent. Many times the shots are there for artistic purpose rather then to show us the story. There are a lot of irrelevant Extreme close-ups on irrelevant objects or persons. The same case is with the filters used in the movie. A lot of different filters pass the eye, and that's a shame, because overall it feels just a bit over the edge with all that many of artistic shots. I also felt that when George sometimes was shown with a darker filter, the director simply said to me "pity tah fool! be sorry for him!" and I don't like it when a director comes up with such a simple solution for dramatizing purpose. To summarise it, it's all still a bit too chaotic and it lacks a chosen style .
Still Ford manages to show us what a day in the life of George looks like, and how he still feels the pain of his loss and loneliness many months later. The story is touching, and because there was the choice to only highlight one day of George his life, it takes us closer to his life. In that sense, it is a very touching story. You could almost feel George his pain, even tough it is very sublimely hid by Colin Firth.
As mentioned before the film mostly takes place on that one day, 9 months later after the death of the partner of George. On a normal average day not too many awkward things happen. The contrary is part of this movie. George meets and talks about the most not-average subject with the strangest people. It even gets to the point where a side character tells George that the weather is the reason for the 'strange light', which is actually another filter for... well you get the point.
To conclude it all, Tom Ford has done a good job for his first movie. If you don't mind a movie which tries to be beautiful just by creating art-like forced shots, and you like a touching story, then go see this. If you don't like that, then go for Colin Firth's performance. The way he delivers his part is tremendous, and he certainly would be a deserved winner should he be awarded with the Oscar.
7,5 out of 10