we've finally seen it today and it's just great. i really liked it a lot, it feels very disturbing, the performance of natalie portman is really intense and very very good.
there's no need to mention the plot of this movie as everybody was speaking about it lately.
we've finally seen it today and it's just great. i really liked it a lot, it feels very disturbing, the performance of natalie portman is really intense and very very good.
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this movie takes time in eastern germany, and concentrates on the secret police's, stasi, parafernalia of informers and techniques to know all about each other's lives. the story lies behind a stasi officer who spends days and days listening and registering to the routines of a young couple of artists. eventually, he grows fond of them, and his writings don't really match reality.
a really nice movie about a reality i don't really know much about. this was my first ingmar bergman movie and i was afraid i would find it too boring or too european for my silly brain.
au contraire, it flowed really smoothly although its two hours, and it is soothing, the calmness of the scenes. however, the whole plot is not that calming, since it is about a former couple who meets after 30 years, and the women gets involved in his relatives complicated lives and relations. so, everyone was speaking about it and we finally saw it yesterday.
it is a really nice movie, goes on really fast and the performances are great. although the king is a rather temperamental person, you grow affectionate really easily. nice nice. saw die welle today. it was just ok, a bit boring at first but then a little more exciting, specially because it is a real story.
a very cool high-school teacher has to teach a class of "autochracy" although he would much prefer to teach the "anarchy" one. having nothing else to do, he decided to be very pragmatic about it, and thinks the best way to teach the students about the theme is to show them how it is done. so, quickly they build a very strict group called "the wave", with a leader, uniform, a greeting, and the thing goes beyond school walls and grows bigger everyday. the drama is that it's obvious how vulnerable people - we - are to mass thinking and the feeling of inclusion. a lot of the kids didn't agree on some things but loved being part of a community. but how you will see in the end, it goes too far. once again we have turned to a movie in mongolia! yes, they all are from the same director and yes, they were all suggested by r. - and i love them all.
tuya's wedding is about a women with a handicapped husband and two small children, a real hardworker, who discovers she has some serious back injury and cannot make further physical efforts. after this, the movie is about a good friend, a water well, and tuya's search for a husband who can keep her previous husband and children in the same house. it's really sweet, i liked the end, although a bit crazy! this week, while at home in a very rainy day, i remembered the international film festival in bratislava, and the movies i wanted to see. although i only saw one and had to pay for it - grrrr - i have the booklet and from time to time i think about the movies.
so, i saw this one on youtube, not a fancy quality at all but good enough. my days in slovakia, because of the people i met there, made me more green and aware of some eco things, and this was a nice documentary about the consequences and the business behind bottled water. here at home, we have always drank water from the tap and sometimes it's hard to find a plastic bottle when i go on a journey or to dance classes - well, now it's not important because my father gave me a yellow water bottle that i carry everywhere. however, when i moved to granada to live with two other girls, i understood there are people that ONLY drink bottled water. because we shared all the expenses, after our first big shopping, i had to pay for 5l of bottled water, although i didn't find any difference between that one and the tap water. this only lasted for one or two weeks, because we couldn't afford to pay for it, and it was really silly, the tap water was good! it was funny watching this documentary although it only talks about the american reality - i have no idea how the bottled water business works in europe. in a country so big, there is only one person responsible for the management of quality of bottled water, and that's not even her only function. so, what happens is the following: - the companies like nestle, coca cola and pepsi go to the natural resources and pump the water for free, without paying anything to anyone. - these companies do not have to make any quality reports and send them to some governmental department. - all bottled water that circulates inside the state is NOT controlled - only water that crosses states' borders is. - almost all bottled water in consumed inside the states. - in their independent studies, chemists found the most incredible things in this bottled water, including cancerigenous substances. - tap water is controlled circa 4000 times a year, bottled water is not. - plus, there is the pollution behing the massive production of plastic bottles. - a big quantity of bottled water is in fact, tap water and only recently were they obliged to put this information on the bottle. crazy, hu? i saw this one yesterday on my way back from lisbon, it happens that i really like the main actor (jason shwartzman), and there's bill murray, and this is a wes anderson movie. it begins being really sweet and it develops to something a bit disturbing - love as in two man loving the same woman.
well, it has beautiful shots, it is a really very ok movie! this movie is about facebook. i was quite surprised in the end, i really enjoyed it. we made all kinds of research in the end. trying to see how real it was. incredible how things develop so fast!
i thought i was going to see a play but in the end it ended up being a movie in theatro circo. by a portuguese director and with a portuguese actress - who spent more than a year learning russian and italian - it is about sonia, a young russian girl who decides to leave in order to live a better life. very quickly she is kidbapped, rapped and sold to an italian pimp, while in germany. it italy she is constantly humilliated and beaten as a prostitute, and, we don't know how, she ends in portugal in a completely destroyed and insane state. it was dead strong, with slow and beautiful scenes, like pictures. dead strong.
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