KURIER (THE RESISTANCE FIGHTER)
Watchable. Interesting pictures inspired by old photographs but in varied palettes. Painstakingly recreated reality of WW2. The spy intrigue slowly becomes comprehensible to an outsider like me. Swift twists of action towards the end, decent dialogues. Poor, wooden acting, including the lead male (Philippe Tlokinski).
LAZZARO FELICE (HAPPY AS LAZZARO)
Watchable. Wise but slow-paced. Feels lengthy for the first hour, the second is easier due to its predictability, you just watch to see if the situation's how you expected. And it is. The downtrodden ones are always at the bottom of the society. Aristocrats and the rich take advantage of them and the clergy takes them for granted. The great fraud was one element that prevented me from leaving the cinema initially. The leap in time was better still. The slave work auction of immigrants and the extremely poor locals equals both groups as the abused ones. Disturbingly it's the destitude ones who end up saving the rich and in fact protecting them.
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