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A relation seen through the eyes of a girl, an older couple who doesn't understand the terms of fame, a life descending to hell, a lot of work, an agent with no empathy at all, in a film with a good actor and actress direction, an elegant selection of shots.

A biopic through the eyes of Priscilla Presley, where we feel the sexism, the uneasiness of the 60's famous people, the ignorance of the secondary effects of the drugs.

The costumes, the atmosphere and the cinematography are fantastic in a story which flows quite well.

There are some excellent sequences as the drug scene, when Elvis and Priscilla take a sugar cube soaked in LSD.

Elvis is unable to play with his girl when they fight with the pillows....he becomes agressive sometimes..

This film has a very original selection of shots, a very nice cinematography and an excellent design. The plot is logical, but surrealist, a kind of modern Alice in Wonderland. The story is plenty of twisting points, making the narrative more and more interesting, with new adventures in the life of the protagonist.

The main character is a woman who discovers the world, a film of "the coming of age", but told in an astounding, peculiar way......

We can see the influence of De Palma, Herzog, Lynch, Buñuel, Polanski and other directors....

The performance by Emma Stone is so good that the film could be used in Schools of Drama for teaching acting.

Mark Ruffalo is fantastic in the role of the womanizer.

Willem Dafoe (the Scarface man) plays an excellent suppporting role.

The film is told in an expressionist code, but following a logical, solid and " straight to the point " narrative line.

A group of theatre formed mainly by young women go to the country in order to rehearse for a theatre play in the open space.

The astounding cinematography matches well with the realistic dialogues in a Spanish French-like picture which captures the inner feelings of a generation of young women.

The characters speak about art, acting, and LIFE.

Fresh and emotional, documentary-like camera planning, cinema verité style, fine performances.

This film is an essay. Directed by Itsaso Arana. It is about love, death, faith and friendship.

Influences of Godard, Rohmer and Resnais.

New Spanish Cinema.

Martin's narrative is somewhat tense, one doesn' ecactly know what is going to happen inside a scene, what reactions are going to take place. Scorsese is a son of his generation and the techniques used were learned from his masters and his mates of generation, the brats. That's why Martin pays tribute to the American cinema and the Eurpean cinema, but also makes reference to Brian De Palma (circular travelling, snooping camera, high angle shots & an overhead shot at the end of the film) and his companions.

The plot is critical with the cruelty of the whites and the wasps focusing on a case of several murders in an Amerindian community.

The film ends with a fantastic homage to the RADIO.

A coming-of-age film, where the main character discovers the world and the sex with plenty of difficulties and strong contrasts: the family, the friends, the Spanish society, the boys and girls' different standpoints.....

The ignorance of the parents' generation about the real new problems of the young people and their lack of knowledge about the internet and the dark side of the internet provokes in her a feeling of confinement.

This isolation and stress leads the main character to a sex life not always well connected with her emotional and everyday's current life.

The screenplay and direction are brave. The dialogues are thoughtful, but slow.

The cinematography is more than acceptable.

A literary contest organized by a group of nuns, attracts some Spanish writers, with inflated "egos", including a woman who writes poems completely naked, a blind man with strange sex fantasies and an alcoholic man who used to write quite well.

The film, directed by an old Spanish cinema director depicts the derelict, skeletal Spanish literary world.

The film includes some surrealistic, ironic & extravagant gags.

The young woman writer wins the award an escapes from the blind and jealous writer (her couple, who wished the prize), in order to go to a big party.

The metaphors and images are pure old fashioned Spain.

The picture changes genres within the same film, with plenty of references to the 70's generation (Altman, De Palma, Carpenter, Spielberg) and Baumbach's own generation (Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson). The toxic cloud part of the film is an homage to the films of disasters (Earthquake).

There are technical homages to Brian De Palma with at least a pair of 360 degrees pan, overhead shots and all.

Driver is looking for an old newspaper in a circular pan which reminds us of Blow Out, finishing with the messy room in an overhead shot. Extraordinary intertextual, postmodern film with lots of cinematographic references and a touch of irony.

Spas and resting resorts in the beginning of the XXth Century, precedents of the hippy flower power movements, and today's healthy workshops function as the background for this story about a woman who is not happy in her marriage and her role in the high classs society in which she is sunk.

Godardian & critical French film which uses pan right-pan left, tracking & hand held shots generating a crazy atmosphere in a hospital which represents in a kind of metaphor, the political and social French fracture and disenchantment.

Each chapter is a new story, surprising and funny, some of the best stories are starred by Cristin Milioti and Anne Hathaway. Love and human relationships are dealt with. Enjoyable.

Hitchcockian-Depalmian audiovisual effectively directed using nice high angle shots, slow tracking shots, low angle shots and constant flash backs remembering something, a story between reality and imagination. Nice performance.

Un pequeño gran film francés que pone en escena aspectos de la vida en un distrito de París. Destacan la pantalla partida, una fotografía excepcional, las interesantes interpretaciones, la profundidad del guion y la emotividad de algunos momentos de la película.

Fantastic atmosphere, costumes and art direction, nice production design, excellent camera movements, good coreographies with the actors, actresses in complex sequence shots, technically coming from older directors like Brian De Palma. The performance is natural, authentic and the colour of the film is another achievement. Very original script!

Depalmian, mysterious movie about a retired detective who can't help worrying about new cases. Great Bill Pullman and fantastic Jessica Hecht. Nice camera movements.

Quiet, ironic and mysterious movie, very well directed and performed.

Keira Knightly is fantastic, a strange party in a house.... The soundtrack is nice, the atmosphere is disturbing but at the same time, the film is relaxing and quiet.

Nice to watch.

Some very good chapters, astonishing in fact, nice soundtrack but the story loses interest, the line of action does not keep the best pace..... the actor performing Kendall is excellent!

The aesthetics, pace, decoration, costumes and cinematography remind us the best legacy of the Italian cinema. Nice performances and staging in a very beautiful, deep and humane Italian movie.

Nice movie, great combination of misse en scene and camera shots, very well directed with elegant tracking shots, high angle and low angle shots. The theatre within the audiovisual, the fiction as a weapon in a hostile world.

Subjectively told story about lady Diana Spencer, very well directed with a brilliant performance by Kristen Stewart and nice cinematography. Excellent tracking shots and overhead shots. A life seen from the inside showing the cold world of the monarchy.

Historia depalmiana de observaciones a través de monitores de televisión, obsesiones, realidades virtuales y suplantaciones de personalidad, un buen guión al que quizá le falte más profundidad en la realización. ¡Excelente Interpretación de Emma Suárez!

Weak film, expressionist and dull, unintelligible sometimes, unbearable with a theatrical staging and black & white aesthetics. From Wes Anderson, the director of The Darjeeling Limited, which was an interesting, independent film in its time.

With influences of De Palma, Lynch and Zulawski, the story mixes genres in a film with some scenes somewhat implausible and abstract being a metaphor of the isolation of this world and the need of being loved. Without that, new monsters are generated.

Beautiful soundtrack and landscape in a film directed with a probable Terrence Malick style influence, and the philosophy of Thoreau in the plot. Nice to watch, although the movie may have some editing mistakes.

Altman style tv series with a fantastic performance and great screenplay.

Anti-shakespearian story with an incredible pace, excellent framing and nice performance and staging.