HIGH LIFE
Watchable. The beginning's so revolting it's best to skip the first 10 minutes. Also intimate parts of a baby girl are shown and I don't think it's proper. The rest is terribly slow. The director is 72 years old, I think at some age they should stop making movies, the same problem as with Michael Haneke getting slow with age. Claire Denis - time to retire! But step by step you learn what is going on and things get awfully weird though plausible since it's convincingly acted. Robert Pattinson sheds his hot vampire image: here he's nearly bald and moves the way "petty thieves and thugs" often do. The film poses an intriguing moral question. In this distorted, abhorrent microworld of a spaceship people badly crave sex yet rape is punishable, at the same time obtaining someone's semen by deception and infertilizing against one's will goes without a penalty. For science fiction fans only - it's still exhausting to watch but the concept is original. Polish actress Agata Buzek impersonates one of the female convicts and Marcin Rodak is responsible make-up and hairstyling. The pictures are brownish and dimmed whether in space or on Earth. A small screen will be better than the cinema. End credits move up and down. The beautiful song accompanying the credits is sung by Robert Pattinson himself.
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3
Watchable. Sadly, after a promising 3D trailer, I only found it in 2D at the cinema. Nevertheless it's a beautiful ending to the trilogy. I actually shed some tears at the touching finale. The animation's lovely: detailed, coloured, with varying textures, lights and reflections in the pupils of the two dragons falling in love. The only minus are humans looking like dolls. But the dragons are cute. The action is a bit chaotic but funny at times, e.g. the dragon date at which Hickup gives his pet instructions how to lure White Fury. As for visuals, the highlight is the Avataresque sequence of entering the Hidden World.
GIRL
Watchable. Shows the process of sex change meticulously but evoked no emotions in me. In the subsequent meeting with a transgender lady I realized I couldn't possibly comprehend the protagonist. Their world, where they have to "deserve" and meet criteria to become physically consistent with their sex, is impermeable to people who've never experienced it. The ballet layer is paralel in that the constant transgressing the body's abilities is apparent. Still, it's all on the educational side.
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Watchable. Bright colours of wonderfully recreated clothes and interiors of the 70s stand in stark contrast with the bleak fate of African Americans presented sombrely and nostalgically. Some scenes look like a poorer version of "La La Land". I wouldn't award any Oscars. Truly surround sound.
ULASKAWIENIE (PARDON)
Walked out. Nostalgic music, dark pictures, a number of haywire cinematographic tricks making the film look like old photographs, disorganized story-telling and the plot centered round a 50+ couple transporting a coffin for 500 km through mud, rivers, woods after the second world war. Hardly enticing.
EARTHFLIGHT 3D
Recommended. Fantastic 3D with images truly coming out to the audience. Absolutely stunning visually. You get the impression you can grab a bird with your hand and their journeys offer awe-inspiring airviews of wonderful historic buildings and verdant landscapes. Informative as well, typical BBC Earth with the 3rd dimension.
It's a shame such a great movie in Poland can be seen at special children's events only.
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