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Combining african realism with magic. The wild prison of Abidjan become the scene to explore both the country's turbulent present and social conditions through rite and music. A very different 'prison movie' that shows that young african cinema draw its way not by imitating but by creating new species, adapted to its specialities. Acting is superbe - Denis lavant holds a very distinctive role, underlying his peculiarity as a unique performer - and the director manages genuisly the scenes where the lot of prisoners act as a chorus in ancient tragedy. The living music tradition of western Africa palys too an important role. Surprisingly astonishing!!!!

Grounded, witty, realistic, with excellent photography. A true story with true people as protagonists, Greece contemporanity, its distorted modernity filmed with sensitivity and humor. Sound scriptplay, gorgeous landscapes, exvellent performances, Mourikis at his best.

A thinking dragon that destroys the source of all evil A young girl who had enough of killing and stes for discovering the world And Jon the ultimate hero murders the ultimate heroine, his one and only queen, when she is defenceless in his arms to protect his sisters and the rest of westeroes from her unceasing mania and thirst for blood and then he finishes headint to the very north, the 'real North' together with his friend, his dogs, and the free people, to live a life with no masters and kings a highly political endind Liked it!

Fellini needs no recommendations. He's the Magician. And Sutherland is one of a few. Plus, he diaries of Casanova are on of the most inspirational literature works of the last centuries. These alone are sufficient. But Casanova of Fellini is something more. As Fellini feels awe (fear and worship at the same time) for women, he degrades men. From Satyricon to the City of Women men appear to surrender, give up their role and the force they once exerted over the other sex. As he deals with the story of his compatriot, Giacomo Casanova, the emblematic womanizer, he lets emerge a tragic figure, a man prisoner of his dubious reputation, a solitary creature that crawls on patios and lounges of prerevolutionary Europe, among degenerated monarchs and nobles who don't understand what is to come and have fun until boredom, The wretched Fellini hero tries to survive sometimes as stallion, sometimes as metaphysical guru and . Trying to ascend socially, he keeps falling, ending his days in a kitchen of a German lord having dinner with the servants who taunt him. He, the greater lover, finally makes love with a doll. (amazing scene). Fellini stays faithful to the text, far away from the beautification of those who grappled with this story, and Sutherland interprets one of the most tragic heroes in the cinema of the 20th century.

World War II was the cause of so many stories around the world, in battlefields and other places as this one, a military prison in the middle of a desert. Where enemies are not the bad Nazis but your own people, the military hierarchy and the iron codes. The film is a study on the human character, and closely follows the five inmates who are crammed together in a small cell and everyone is trying to survive in the manner dictated by experience and ethics, as the jailer Wilson, who is essentially the absolute master in the camp, impose crippling sanctions trying to divide and subjugate them. 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest was strongly influenced by this excellent movie.

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There are many films one knows a lot about even before entering the theater. La vie d'Adele was one of them. With a director of Arab origin and a protagonist of Greek origin, it was in every film fans conversation in town. A film with shocking sex scenes, devoted to homosexual love among women. Very many critics pro and against, the petite bourgeois morality at red alarm. So I knew quite well what I was expecting to see.

But I was wrong. Although homosexuality was the most evident issue of the movie, I believe this was not the story the filmmaker wanted to tell us. Apart from their mutual physical attraction, the protagonists belong to two completely different worlds. To make it simple, one is rich and the other, Adele, is poor, coming from the suburbs. Living together proves to be impossible, not just because of fidelity matters but of being incapable of understanding each other. Adele feels uncomfortable into the artistic environment of her girlfriend, as she is just a poor teacher who only writes a diary from time to time. Her companion's surroundings wonder how somebody may not have any creative impulses, but is contained in cooking. Their cohabitation is getting every day paler as Emma runs after her artistic dreams, funded by her parents, while Adele tries to make a living in a job she finds everyday duller. When Emma literally throws her out of her house, she is devastated, even more by the fact that she is quickly replaced by another member of Emma's social class. She realizes that sexual identity even diverge, is not enough to bridge social differences and the bourgeois end up mating among them. Her deep love for Emma comes in second place.

Few films have managed to treat a controversial social issue and let prevail ethic at the same time as this, as this largely neglected film has done. Touching the problem of immigrants in 21st century Greece (right before the oncoming giant flew of refugees that marked our country and our hearts in 2015), their unstable position in the society, the insecurity they may cause n some parts of the population and different reactions, it goes far beyond reaching to biblical ethic questions. Should we take revenge the old Testament style, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? And if so, what are the consequences? Can one man stand on foot on his own after that? And what about the ones he loves, is he able to protect them?

The way out is forgiveness. It comes in a stunning way and liberates the hero, while dazzling him at the same time.The enemy within is beaten by mutual forgiveness, compassion and solidarity towards the real enemy. The rest to be seen...

Four main characters ...recognizable among us. The sexually depressed beautiful wife, the handsome and careerist husband, the dapper sister that bears no guilt in adultery and the fourth, the strange one, the one that hasn't accepted social conventions but lives his melancholy by spying at the lives of women. he enters their world and changes it for ever. He may be social outcast but his feelings are so genuine that can deviate the route of routine. True love and affection is the outcome of this peculiar human adventure. More than love, affection and tenderness. The moment that Ann removes the camera and comes close to Graham is one of the most heartwarming in the story of cinema.

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I saw this movie in the autumn film festival of Athens many years ago. It left me really astounded, surprised, marveled, my beloved Dylan co-produces a terrific movie, it starts with a scene referring to Chile's coup d'etat, tanks in the street, terror in the city, contains some of the most endearing performances of Dylan's songs (he doesn't sing any of them, opting for blue blues), such as 'the times they are a changing' by a sweet black girl who lisps, my favorite,a journalist killed by the guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson, all that combined a mystifying tale that thrilled me. I thought tat, apart from the story, the glamorous cast, Bridges, Cruz, Goodman, Lang, would make it a hit for the winter film season and I started warmly recommending it to my friends. And then...nothing. The movie never found its way to the Athenian theaters. I don't know the reasons, but I thought that many really good movies never end in our screens. I give a ten to the movie for Dylan, the lovingly psychedelic plot, the performances of all those great songs and its depreciation.

Just saw the video yesterday night. I preferred that from a Friday night stroll and was right. It is surely a movie that one can hardly forget. Reading other reviews, it's also highly controversial. It's a story that brings human nature to its extremes, human nature face to Nature. This is what I think it is mostly about. The human challenges the Nature in so many ways. Usually he challenges it by abusing and destroying. Chris challenges it by trying to impose his presence in an environment where Nature, not humans prevail. No matter how good are the purposes of one, he should not exceed his limits. Many commented that on Chris being a brat having a senseless, useless end. Many people on this planet have really senseless deaths. Children dying from bombardments or famine have definitely a senseless death. This death was not senseless. It was the pay for one's struggle to the limits and far beyond. This story also challenges the American society. This is why Americans love it so much or despise it. It describes its dead-ends, its predominant materialism. At the time of illustrating a sick society, it is a formidable testimony of what a GORGEOUS place the territory called United States is. I really fell now the need to visit it more than ever. I had seen Hachi one month ago and now this and I can tell 'reality is far more magic than imagination'

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Greece has received great number of refugees and immigrants the last decades and that resulted in a huge reformation of its socio geographical landscape. The first wave of immigrants, in the early 90's, came from the neighboring Albania right after the fall of Hodja's regime. They are the largest ethnic group of immigrants in Greece up to today, while many of their children have been born in Greece but they are refused of citizenship rights, according to an anachronistic law that, hopefully, will be amended.

That situation is exactly what the movie is about. Two youngsters, of Albanian mother and a vaguely known Greek father, after the death of their mother put themselves in the search of the father, in order to get his testimony and obtain the long cherished Greek citizenship.There starts a juvenile road movie from the Greek capital towards the northern Thessaloniki, portraying scenes of the countryside as nature and human landscape, denoting the unbreakable bond between the two brothers, their struggle to survive in a not always welcoming society and their eagerness to change their fate.

The movie treats the delicate issue of the immigrants adaptation in the Greek society, which has corresponded in a controversial way. There were other Greek movies with similar theme, such as To kanarini Podilato (The Canary-color Bicycle) and O Dromos gia ti Disi (The Way to the West) but what differentiates this one is his hilarious attitude and optimism, which made it a teenage hit in Greece. People move on in their lives facing their realities and accepting their particularities without losing their innocence. As one of the protagonists says: ' We have no home, that means that all the world is our home.'

Thus cosmopolitanism, anti racism, anti-homophobic, two heartwarming young protagonists that call you to partake, a vivid scenario without clichés and full of surprises consist what could be an emblematic film for Greece in the 2010's

Wenders is one of the most challenging directors of our times. Though the last years he seems to have run out of ideas, he can still direct a fabulous documentary when the prime material is a diamond: Salgado, the best photographer of all times.

Sebastao Salgado is a legend.He as taken the most deep views on human nature and pain. He has let himself exposed to the extremes of human cruelty and destruction, he has faced poverty and death and this devastated.The pictures taken from his beloved Africa, followed by a concussive description of unknown to us dramas of thousands and millions of people, remind us of what man is capable to do to one another, how no one on this planet can claim innocence.

However, the outcome is not despair. Man, and that is the main attribute given to Salgado, always finds his way to hope. The film lyrically leads us from the absolute despair about the future of human kind to the rediscovery of nature and the wild that ends up rendering a deforested piece of Amazonian jungle back to its former state, giving back to nature what was taken from her. Yes, the Salgado family had the strength to do it. Yes, the human kind has the strength to do it.

This fabulous story is narrated through the most miraculous black and white pictures and portraits ever taken. A homage to Man and Nature, that is what the movie is about.

When man leaves to forget, the dog stays there to remember. Hachiko had shown feeling of love that most of us, humans, are incapable of. It has shown that love knows no boundaries. An impressive tale, stuck in my mind for more than a month,that has so much to teach us. An americanized - Scandinavian version of the original, that even though portrays ideal behavior of the community in an idyllic setting, invades the inconscient with soft images, a subtle but slowly penetrating soundtrack and Richard Gere in maybe the best and more human role of his long career. I saw him at first as the sex idol in 'American Gigolo' and 'Breathless' and he marked my adolescence, but his mature self is far more enchanting.

When God realized Man was far from perfect, he created dogs to counter - balance.The dog sight that dominates the movie which rolls in a very slow pace - as dogs' lives usually do - let us penetrate in Hachi's soul, and that ends up to be both devastating and deliberating. I feel at the same time sorry and so relieved seeing how love triumphs over death. I'm sure that if the movie had the adequate promotion and was on the cinemas for a while, it would have gained a far more higher position in the list.