LIBANKY (HONEYMOON)
Recommended. Not easy to watch, quite disturbing. the images stay with you. Every bully should see it.
Sunday 31 May 2015
Wednesday 27 May 2015
SERCE, SERDUSZKO
Watchable. Not your typical Jan Jakub Kolski film. We're leaving the fairy-tale countryside universe. The main protagonists are a punk and a little girl ballet dancer and it's a film of the road. There's a fantastic character of a priest rapping in religious fervour. The film fortunately retains much of Kolski's characteristic style.
The screening I went to was followed by a meeting with Borys Szyc who only truly proved his acting skills mocking movie directors. No film has given him the chance to show off the way he did then. He was brilliant.
LA ISLA MINIMA (MARSHLAND)
Watchable. Protracted and ambiguous to the point where I barely understood the film. Shot imitating the 1980s in a bad way (the picture looked old technically). There's a mystery which never gets fully explained.
QUE HORAS ELA VOLTA? (THE SECOND MOTHER)
Watchable. A social drama, well acted and involving but with an ending which offers neither a hope nor an explanation of the girl's motives.
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (LABYRINTH OF LIES)
Recommended. Another great German film dealing with the country's Nazi past. Very much a courtroom drama but also subtly revealing both the concentration camps horror and the scale of ignorance in the happy-go-lucky post-war society.
FASANDRAEBERNE (THE PHEASANT KILLERS)
Watchable. A typical Scandinavian (even if geographically Danish) crime story: brutal, with the culprits being rich and being hunters fond of torturing humans as well. While it's all executed perfectly, the plot is standard in this manner.
SONG OF THE SEA
Watchable. Slow and stylish. Not to every taste. Disney it isn't. It's based on the touching Nordic or Celtic tale of a seal living as a woman and hence longing for the see.
AFRYKAMERA 2015
VIRUNGA
Recommended. A very well shot (especially the initial part in which the camera follows running shooters), planned and eye-opening documentary about national park rangers defending the world's only mountain gorillas habitat not only against poachers but even more so against a British oil company which is doing its utmost to drill in a section of the park. The film's so good it only makes me wonder what "Citizenfour" must be like as "Virunga" lost the Oscar race to the film about Edward Snowden.
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Watchable. For a bigger part pleasing to watch - J-Lo plus a hot guy twice younger than her in steamy situations plus the tension in between. Ruined by a standard Hollywood ending in which the hot guy suddenly turns out to be a psychopatic killer and the whole thing ends in flames. Much over the top. "The Guest" it isn't.
MARY KOM
Walked out but would have stayed if I hadn't had a more promising cinema offer for the evening. Slow and ramshackle with mediocre music and even Priyanka Chopra looks so masculine she's hardly appealing to the eye. Still, my guess is it may be worth seeing for motivational purposes as it tells the story of a humble background female boxing champion who has everything going against her. All she's got is her inner strength and it suffices to succeed.
THE RIOT CLUB
Watchable. A very British film dealing with the class system. An Oxford University-based secret society consisting of upper class guys is capable of every atrocity committed out of the need to fill superior to lower classes while being sure of excellent connections to the legal and political circles letting them act in total impunity. Nothing new but very well acted by a few good-looking guys. New acting prodigies in the making.
PK
Watchable. Silly and intelligent at the same time. A warm comedy about an idiot alien deals with the notion of God/gods and the issue of charlatans. It's not very funny though. Nor is it high-tech.
YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI
Watchable. A simple love story where the travel-hungry protagonist got me intrigued. It's about the clash of domestic and nomadic lifestyles. But it's mediocre in all possible ways.
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
Watchable. Great, if sparse, music throughout, with a Bollywood-style dance at the end. The dialogues should be amusing but somehow aren't. The pace is a bit too slow and the stories too far-fetched. A nice mix of English accents.
WOMAN IN GOLD
Recommended. First you just notice the great actors at their best. Then it becomes an involving courtroom drama. Finally, while mixed with the court case, a moving story of coming to terms with exceptionally traumatic past. And it's based on true stories surrounding a famous painting by Klimt.
Have you seen the hologram advertising the new Terminator in cinemas? It changes top to bottom revealing the machine and Schwarzie interchangeably. I love it!
JEWISH MOTIFS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
RADICAL EVIL
Recommended. The film dissects, through the Einsatzgruppen quotes, psychological experiment cases and expert opinions, how ordinary people in groups can become ruthless murderers.
LE PROCES DE VIVIANE AMSALEM (GETT: THE TRAIL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM)
Recommended. Both a courtroom drama gripping from the first scene and a psychological film, the latter even more, about a difficult unrequitted love.
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE NIGHT OF AVENGERS
I skipped "Avengers 3D" as I had seen it before and had found it just watchable then. So I saw
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Watchable. Both films have rubbish plots and the hot Chris Evans for a girl viewer to survive the movies. Plot-wise the first "Captain America" movie was much better.
CHILD 44
Watchable. Loosely based on Chikatilo's murders but as unexciting as a serial killer story can possibly get. What ruins the film is: Tom Hardy - it was hard to watch his ugly, fat, boar-like face for 2 hours 17 minutes, Tom Hardy again - his fake Russian accent sounded just weird and, finally, a protracted plot.
PIKU
Watchable. A nice light comedy about... family and constipation issues. Situationally amusing at times but not hilarious. No singing and dancing.
JOURNAL D'UNE FEMME DE CHAMBRE (THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID)
Watchable. Don't expect hot action or eroticism. It's a story of violence and of a psychopathic relationship between masters and servants - psychopathic from both sides. It's just sick.
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE MARATHON OF MAD MAX
MAD MAX
MAD MAX 2
Watchable. Both 80s films get you interested from scene one and maintain a steady pace. Silly and full of violence for the sake of violence yet quite involving (in the action and its developments, not the twisted psychology of the characters). A nice 80s-style set of weirdos.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Watchable. Tom Hardy's revolting face doesn't hinder much here. His deep, low voice is a perfect match for the burnt-out, cynical rebel. The female beautiful breeders characters and zombie-like bald swarms of workers are very naff. It's all too fantastical. The weakest of the three films of the night.
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
Watchable. Again: well-acted but hardly hilarious. Some situation humour makes you laugh out loud at times. Lots of famous actors and one director (Quentin Tarantino) cameo, a ridiculously inept detective as well as amusing connections between the characters make for a good watch.
EDEN
Watchable. The director's name may appear somewhat Scandinavian but don't get mistaken - she's French and it's a typical French film following the hero seemingly all the time which is just plain boring. It's bearable just because of occasionally good music (the best bit is at the very beginning however, feel free to leave afterwards) and club atmosphere.
Watchable. Not your typical Jan Jakub Kolski film. We're leaving the fairy-tale countryside universe. The main protagonists are a punk and a little girl ballet dancer and it's a film of the road. There's a fantastic character of a priest rapping in religious fervour. The film fortunately retains much of Kolski's characteristic style.
The screening I went to was followed by a meeting with Borys Szyc who only truly proved his acting skills mocking movie directors. No film has given him the chance to show off the way he did then. He was brilliant.
LA ISLA MINIMA (MARSHLAND)
Watchable. Protracted and ambiguous to the point where I barely understood the film. Shot imitating the 1980s in a bad way (the picture looked old technically). There's a mystery which never gets fully explained.
QUE HORAS ELA VOLTA? (THE SECOND MOTHER)
Watchable. A social drama, well acted and involving but with an ending which offers neither a hope nor an explanation of the girl's motives.
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (LABYRINTH OF LIES)
Recommended. Another great German film dealing with the country's Nazi past. Very much a courtroom drama but also subtly revealing both the concentration camps horror and the scale of ignorance in the happy-go-lucky post-war society.
FASANDRAEBERNE (THE PHEASANT KILLERS)
Watchable. A typical Scandinavian (even if geographically Danish) crime story: brutal, with the culprits being rich and being hunters fond of torturing humans as well. While it's all executed perfectly, the plot is standard in this manner.
SONG OF THE SEA
Watchable. Slow and stylish. Not to every taste. Disney it isn't. It's based on the touching Nordic or Celtic tale of a seal living as a woman and hence longing for the see.
AFRYKAMERA 2015
VIRUNGA
Recommended. A very well shot (especially the initial part in which the camera follows running shooters), planned and eye-opening documentary about national park rangers defending the world's only mountain gorillas habitat not only against poachers but even more so against a British oil company which is doing its utmost to drill in a section of the park. The film's so good it only makes me wonder what "Citizenfour" must be like as "Virunga" lost the Oscar race to the film about Edward Snowden.
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Watchable. For a bigger part pleasing to watch - J-Lo plus a hot guy twice younger than her in steamy situations plus the tension in between. Ruined by a standard Hollywood ending in which the hot guy suddenly turns out to be a psychopatic killer and the whole thing ends in flames. Much over the top. "The Guest" it isn't.
MARY KOM
Walked out but would have stayed if I hadn't had a more promising cinema offer for the evening. Slow and ramshackle with mediocre music and even Priyanka Chopra looks so masculine she's hardly appealing to the eye. Still, my guess is it may be worth seeing for motivational purposes as it tells the story of a humble background female boxing champion who has everything going against her. All she's got is her inner strength and it suffices to succeed.
THE RIOT CLUB
Watchable. A very British film dealing with the class system. An Oxford University-based secret society consisting of upper class guys is capable of every atrocity committed out of the need to fill superior to lower classes while being sure of excellent connections to the legal and political circles letting them act in total impunity. Nothing new but very well acted by a few good-looking guys. New acting prodigies in the making.
PK
Watchable. Silly and intelligent at the same time. A warm comedy about an idiot alien deals with the notion of God/gods and the issue of charlatans. It's not very funny though. Nor is it high-tech.
YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI
Watchable. A simple love story where the travel-hungry protagonist got me intrigued. It's about the clash of domestic and nomadic lifestyles. But it's mediocre in all possible ways.
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
Watchable. Great, if sparse, music throughout, with a Bollywood-style dance at the end. The dialogues should be amusing but somehow aren't. The pace is a bit too slow and the stories too far-fetched. A nice mix of English accents.
WOMAN IN GOLD
Recommended. First you just notice the great actors at their best. Then it becomes an involving courtroom drama. Finally, while mixed with the court case, a moving story of coming to terms with exceptionally traumatic past. And it's based on true stories surrounding a famous painting by Klimt.
Have you seen the hologram advertising the new Terminator in cinemas? It changes top to bottom revealing the machine and Schwarzie interchangeably. I love it!
JEWISH MOTIFS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
RADICAL EVIL
Recommended. The film dissects, through the Einsatzgruppen quotes, psychological experiment cases and expert opinions, how ordinary people in groups can become ruthless murderers.
LE PROCES DE VIVIANE AMSALEM (GETT: THE TRAIL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM)
Recommended. Both a courtroom drama gripping from the first scene and a psychological film, the latter even more, about a difficult unrequitted love.
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE NIGHT OF AVENGERS
I skipped "Avengers 3D" as I had seen it before and had found it just watchable then. So I saw
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Watchable. Both films have rubbish plots and the hot Chris Evans for a girl viewer to survive the movies. Plot-wise the first "Captain America" movie was much better.
CHILD 44
Watchable. Loosely based on Chikatilo's murders but as unexciting as a serial killer story can possibly get. What ruins the film is: Tom Hardy - it was hard to watch his ugly, fat, boar-like face for 2 hours 17 minutes, Tom Hardy again - his fake Russian accent sounded just weird and, finally, a protracted plot.
PIKU
Watchable. A nice light comedy about... family and constipation issues. Situationally amusing at times but not hilarious. No singing and dancing.
JOURNAL D'UNE FEMME DE CHAMBRE (THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID)
Watchable. Don't expect hot action or eroticism. It's a story of violence and of a psychopathic relationship between masters and servants - psychopathic from both sides. It's just sick.
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE MARATHON OF MAD MAX
MAD MAX
MAD MAX 2
Watchable. Both 80s films get you interested from scene one and maintain a steady pace. Silly and full of violence for the sake of violence yet quite involving (in the action and its developments, not the twisted psychology of the characters). A nice 80s-style set of weirdos.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Watchable. Tom Hardy's revolting face doesn't hinder much here. His deep, low voice is a perfect match for the burnt-out, cynical rebel. The female beautiful breeders characters and zombie-like bald swarms of workers are very naff. It's all too fantastical. The weakest of the three films of the night.
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
Watchable. Again: well-acted but hardly hilarious. Some situation humour makes you laugh out loud at times. Lots of famous actors and one director (Quentin Tarantino) cameo, a ridiculously inept detective as well as amusing connections between the characters make for a good watch.
EDEN
Watchable. The director's name may appear somewhat Scandinavian but don't get mistaken - she's French and it's a typical French film following the hero seemingly all the time which is just plain boring. It's bearable just because of occasionally good music (the best bit is at the very beginning however, feel free to leave afterwards) and club atmosphere.
Tuesday 12 May 2015
JE SUIS FEMEN (I AM FEMEN)
Recommended. A fascinating documentary which answers all the questions I've had about the topless feminists and reveals even more. Ukraine certainly has worse problems than we could imagine in Poland or Britain: a girl was raped and burned alive, survived, had har limbs amputated after which she died anyway and the suspects were let free or a zoo owner poisoned animals to take over the land. All the more you get to appreciate the activists' determination to bring the perpetrators (often successfully) to justice. So why do they protest half-naked? Because: 1. it guarantees attention and media coverage, 2. feminists are said to be ugly and unattractive so they've decided to show you can be beautiful and sexy and still be a feminist. Who finances them? The media and their online shop sales. Other little known facts are that the Euro 2012 brought about a huge rise in the number sex parlous in Ukraine, again something we didn't experience in Poland and that the girls where tortured in Russia and Belarus. Kudos to Femen heroes!
PHOENIX
Recommended. A gripping story where "will he recognise her or not?" keeps you on the edge of your seat and a disturbing truth about human emotions is shown as well - no one wants to hear about the woman's concentration camp memories, all people want is to see her just the way she was before the war. The final song is very beautiful and constitutes the film climax.
FEHER ISTEN (WHITE GOD)
Recommended. Not a film I'd like to see again - it's full of cruelty to dogs and humans - but it's unusual - certainly nothing like whatever I had seen in the cinema before. And clearly made by someone who loves dogs. A disturbing must-see.
I'm adding a comment about 1.5 years later when I had a chance to ask the director, Kornél Mundruczó, about the film. The story behind the film harks back to his visit in a dog rescue where he saw dogs which were, effectively, waiting for death. This film, just like his later "Jupiter Holdja" ("Jupiter's Moon), is a mirror or ourselves. The title comes from a South African philosophical essay by John Maxwell Coetzee: a man from a dog's perspective is a white god. Dorota Chrobak asked him about cruelty common to Hungarian cinema. The director explained that the conflict of poetry and reality came from Hungarian tradition. It's present in folk tales and in Bartók's works. Unlike French or Romanian cinema, which is built on realism, mixing reality with poetry is typical for Hungarians. Scriptwriter Kata Wéber added that black humour was common in Hungarian society and that could be seen as brutality.
PLEMYA (THE TRIBE)
Watchable. Very poorly acted. Mildly interesting just because, as you're told upfront, "the film is all in sign language with no subtitles or translation". At the same time it's full of talking - sign language - which only adds length to the film.
THE PYRAMID
Watchable. While I hate horrors full of jumping monsters, I have to admit these ones are scary. I hope they won't make a sequel.
LA FAMILLE BELIER (THE BELIER FAMILY)
Recommended. I laughed and cried and wallowed in the songs. A heart-warming family comedy (the sign language "translations" are brilliant).
DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT (TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT)
Watchable. It's intriguing to see how people will react to a choice of saving a colleague's job vs. getting a pay bonus of 1000 euro and you're obviously curious to find out if the main protagonist gets to keep her job. Other than that the film and the actress in a leading role are quite average, quite clearly couldn't win the Oscar.
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
Watchable. Very well acted. With some hilarious situation humour, especially a few scenes with dogs, yet not that funny throughout.
LA DISTANCIA (DYSTANS)
Walked out. I couldn't make any sense of those ugly people, mostly dwarves, doing weird things.
Recommended. A fascinating documentary which answers all the questions I've had about the topless feminists and reveals even more. Ukraine certainly has worse problems than we could imagine in Poland or Britain: a girl was raped and burned alive, survived, had har limbs amputated after which she died anyway and the suspects were let free or a zoo owner poisoned animals to take over the land. All the more you get to appreciate the activists' determination to bring the perpetrators (often successfully) to justice. So why do they protest half-naked? Because: 1. it guarantees attention and media coverage, 2. feminists are said to be ugly and unattractive so they've decided to show you can be beautiful and sexy and still be a feminist. Who finances them? The media and their online shop sales. Other little known facts are that the Euro 2012 brought about a huge rise in the number sex parlous in Ukraine, again something we didn't experience in Poland and that the girls where tortured in Russia and Belarus. Kudos to Femen heroes!
PHOENIX
Recommended. A gripping story where "will he recognise her or not?" keeps you on the edge of your seat and a disturbing truth about human emotions is shown as well - no one wants to hear about the woman's concentration camp memories, all people want is to see her just the way she was before the war. The final song is very beautiful and constitutes the film climax.
FEHER ISTEN (WHITE GOD)
Recommended. Not a film I'd like to see again - it's full of cruelty to dogs and humans - but it's unusual - certainly nothing like whatever I had seen in the cinema before. And clearly made by someone who loves dogs. A disturbing must-see.
I'm adding a comment about 1.5 years later when I had a chance to ask the director, Kornél Mundruczó, about the film. The story behind the film harks back to his visit in a dog rescue where he saw dogs which were, effectively, waiting for death. This film, just like his later "Jupiter Holdja" ("Jupiter's Moon), is a mirror or ourselves. The title comes from a South African philosophical essay by John Maxwell Coetzee: a man from a dog's perspective is a white god. Dorota Chrobak asked him about cruelty common to Hungarian cinema. The director explained that the conflict of poetry and reality came from Hungarian tradition. It's present in folk tales and in Bartók's works. Unlike French or Romanian cinema, which is built on realism, mixing reality with poetry is typical for Hungarians. Scriptwriter Kata Wéber added that black humour was common in Hungarian society and that could be seen as brutality.
PLEMYA (THE TRIBE)
Watchable. Very poorly acted. Mildly interesting just because, as you're told upfront, "the film is all in sign language with no subtitles or translation". At the same time it's full of talking - sign language - which only adds length to the film.
THE PYRAMID
Watchable. While I hate horrors full of jumping monsters, I have to admit these ones are scary. I hope they won't make a sequel.
LA FAMILLE BELIER (THE BELIER FAMILY)
Recommended. I laughed and cried and wallowed in the songs. A heart-warming family comedy (the sign language "translations" are brilliant).
DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT (TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT)
Watchable. It's intriguing to see how people will react to a choice of saving a colleague's job vs. getting a pay bonus of 1000 euro and you're obviously curious to find out if the main protagonist gets to keep her job. Other than that the film and the actress in a leading role are quite average, quite clearly couldn't win the Oscar.
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
Watchable. Very well acted. With some hilarious situation humour, especially a few scenes with dogs, yet not that funny throughout.
LA DISTANCIA (DYSTANS)
Walked out. I couldn't make any sense of those ugly people, mostly dwarves, doing weird things.
Wednesday 6 May 2015
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE NIGHT OF ADAPTATIONS
I skipped "Divergent" which I had seen and hadn't been delighted with before.
INSURGENT
Watchable. Artisan make: quite good CGIs but not mind-blowing, involving action at a good pace but far-fetched and terribly PC plot.
THE HOST
Watchable. A good number of hot guys, involving plot, happy ending. It's just no longer funny or moving when seen for the second time.
IF I STAY
Walked out. If you stay (I didn't) you're likely to get frustrated by the silly plot heading nowhere.
CANIBAL
Watchable. Not as shocking as the title would imply. While it's still involving, for obviously morbid reasons, it's slow-paced and not very convincing.
BLUE LIPS
Watchable. A few stories in one film rarely work. Here you just watch a handful of peculiar characters who all happen to be in Pamplona at the time of the San Fermin Fiesta. From the safety of your cinema seat you follow their issues with accommodation or lost luggage. Nothing unusual.
THE GUNMAN
Watchable. A standard action fare - well made and acted but with sime obvious ridiculities of the plot and protracted shoot-outs.
ELLE L'ADORE
Watchable. An involving crime drama for an unknown reason advertised as a comedy. About how a mundane incident changes ordinary people into criminals. Keeps you hooked from the first quarter of the movie though not on the edge of your seat - you can relax and recline.
CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS (ABOUT A GIRL)
Watchable. The main two characters are sort of weirdos but likeable ones. The story of teenage depression rang some bells to me so I found it easy to identify myself with the girl who suffered just with growing up, no particular reason to it.
PARTY GIRL
Watchable. The protagonists are simple minds but the whole story of a family reunion was touching.
OPTIMISTENE (THE OPTIMISTS)
Recommended. Finally two nations where over-60s don't act like old pricks. It's so uplifting it's a must-see.
DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN
Walked out. Everyday life of an average family is so mundane and average that when some violence starts the action doesn't get any more lively.
THE DUFF
Recommended. I laughed and cried. It's all very involving, sometimes emotional and with some situation humour here and there. Kept me glued to the screen.
JAK CALKOWICIE ZNIKNAC
Watchable. The lesbian night tour of Berlin, with its shabby clubs, streets, gutters and kebab joints, is not interesting but is hypnotic.
FAST&FURIOUS 7
Watchable. Let your brain rest. Stop thinking and admire the views (hot chicks, muscled guys, landscapes, flying cars, glamour, cliff-hangers, crashes) and the music (by David Guetta among others. It was shot on locations in Atlanta, Colorado, Abu Dhabi, California. Only Japan is fake.
DIFRET
Recommended. A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped, held captive, raped, beaten, has her arm broken. When escaping she kills her main oppressor. She gets arrested, expelled from her home village and is waiting for the trial which will most likely end in her getting the capital punishment. Well, it's rural Ethiopia. An in-depth portrayal of the conflict of customary law with state law and the clash of modern city vs. traditional village cultures. The Ethiopian film is, curiously, produced by Angelina Jolie.
I skipped "Divergent" which I had seen and hadn't been delighted with before.
INSURGENT
Watchable. Artisan make: quite good CGIs but not mind-blowing, involving action at a good pace but far-fetched and terribly PC plot.
THE HOST
Watchable. A good number of hot guys, involving plot, happy ending. It's just no longer funny or moving when seen for the second time.
IF I STAY
Walked out. If you stay (I didn't) you're likely to get frustrated by the silly plot heading nowhere.
CANIBAL
Watchable. Not as shocking as the title would imply. While it's still involving, for obviously morbid reasons, it's slow-paced and not very convincing.
BLUE LIPS
Watchable. A few stories in one film rarely work. Here you just watch a handful of peculiar characters who all happen to be in Pamplona at the time of the San Fermin Fiesta. From the safety of your cinema seat you follow their issues with accommodation or lost luggage. Nothing unusual.
THE GUNMAN
Watchable. A standard action fare - well made and acted but with sime obvious ridiculities of the plot and protracted shoot-outs.
ELLE L'ADORE
Watchable. An involving crime drama for an unknown reason advertised as a comedy. About how a mundane incident changes ordinary people into criminals. Keeps you hooked from the first quarter of the movie though not on the edge of your seat - you can relax and recline.
CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS (ABOUT A GIRL)
Watchable. The main two characters are sort of weirdos but likeable ones. The story of teenage depression rang some bells to me so I found it easy to identify myself with the girl who suffered just with growing up, no particular reason to it.
PARTY GIRL
Watchable. The protagonists are simple minds but the whole story of a family reunion was touching.
OPTIMISTENE (THE OPTIMISTS)
Recommended. Finally two nations where over-60s don't act like old pricks. It's so uplifting it's a must-see.
DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN
Walked out. Everyday life of an average family is so mundane and average that when some violence starts the action doesn't get any more lively.
THE DUFF
Recommended. I laughed and cried. It's all very involving, sometimes emotional and with some situation humour here and there. Kept me glued to the screen.
JAK CALKOWICIE ZNIKNAC
Watchable. The lesbian night tour of Berlin, with its shabby clubs, streets, gutters and kebab joints, is not interesting but is hypnotic.
FAST&FURIOUS 7
Watchable. Let your brain rest. Stop thinking and admire the views (hot chicks, muscled guys, landscapes, flying cars, glamour, cliff-hangers, crashes) and the music (by David Guetta among others. It was shot on locations in Atlanta, Colorado, Abu Dhabi, California. Only Japan is fake.
DIFRET
Recommended. A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped, held captive, raped, beaten, has her arm broken. When escaping she kills her main oppressor. She gets arrested, expelled from her home village and is waiting for the trial which will most likely end in her getting the capital punishment. Well, it's rural Ethiopia. An in-depth portrayal of the conflict of customary law with state law and the clash of modern city vs. traditional village cultures. The Ethiopian film is, curiously, produced by Angelina Jolie.
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