March 2010 Part 4
March 28th 2010 22:32
The Road (2010) Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael K. Williams, Robert Duvall. Dir: John Hillcoat
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man and his son travel across a brutal landscape. It’s hard to fault the acting, the direction and the gravitas of the writing, but it’s so bleak. Only the finale contains the smallest crumbs of hope. Not one destined for repeated viewing. Contains cannibalism.
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Solaris (1972) Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky. Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky.
A doctor investigates the psychosis on a space station and begins to see his own late wife. A tense mysterious film that deals with weighty themes of life, death and human perception. But it’s long, and its many extended eerie sequences and philosophical musings may try your patience.
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In Bruges (2008) Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes. Dir: Martin McDonagh.
Two hit men hide out in Bruges after a botched hit. A personal favourite: the script is impeccable, switching seamlessly from comedy to tragedy, from the ridiculous to the profound. All the performers are at the absolute top of the game; the mixture is almost perfect.
DDDDD
My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999) James Belushi, Molly Shannon, Daryl Sabara, Liliana Mumy, Tress MacNeille. Dir: Isao Takahata.
The comic tales of a typical Japanese family. Pleasant animation made up of small sketches and vignettes, but without building towards anything. The humour is ok, but rather too familiar; it’s been done before, notably by The Simpsons. The watercolour animation is rather lovely.
DDDd
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man and his son travel across a brutal landscape. It’s hard to fault the acting, the direction and the gravitas of the writing, but it’s so bleak. Only the finale contains the smallest crumbs of hope. Not one destined for repeated viewing. Contains cannibalism.
DDDD
Solaris (1972) Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky. Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky.
A doctor investigates the psychosis on a space station and begins to see his own late wife. A tense mysterious film that deals with weighty themes of life, death and human perception. But it’s long, and its many extended eerie sequences and philosophical musings may try your patience.
DDDDd
In Bruges (2008) Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes. Dir: Martin McDonagh.
Two hit men hide out in Bruges after a botched hit. A personal favourite: the script is impeccable, switching seamlessly from comedy to tragedy, from the ridiculous to the profound. All the performers are at the absolute top of the game; the mixture is almost perfect.
DDDDD
My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999) James Belushi, Molly Shannon, Daryl Sabara, Liliana Mumy, Tress MacNeille. Dir: Isao Takahata.
The comic tales of a typical Japanese family. Pleasant animation made up of small sketches and vignettes, but without building towards anything. The humour is ok, but rather too familiar; it’s been done before, notably by The Simpsons. The watercolour animation is rather lovely.
DDDd
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