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Portrait of a Lady on Fire |2019| ‘Portrait de la jeune fille en feu’| Directed by Céline Sciamma|

  Héloïse: I’ve dreamt of that for years. Marianne: Dying? Héloïse: Running. 

There is a thought of love, a memory that lives within. A mystery that surrounded her, the unfinished painting that left an intrigue, a distraction needed, she followed her through the fog into landscape… She started to run towards and stopped at the edge. She turned and looked her. At that moment, she fell in love.

I…

You Were Never Really Here |2017| Directed by Lynne Ramsay

In this tale of a world filled with dark corners, Joe, a former veteran with PTSD, is a hired gun who rescues trafficked girls. He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City. He has flashbacks from his time in field and childhood. Directed by Lynne Ramsay, Joe gets a new assignment from McCleary, his handler. A New York State Senator, Albert Votto, has offered a large sum…

A Quiet Place |2018| Directed by John Krasinski

It is so astonishing to watch a simple narrative done right with such finesse and smartness. A Quiet Place is about a family who must live life in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. With its runtime just about 90 minutes, the movie achieves everything it sets out. Everything is silence around, even when you are sitting in a theater, the slightest sound sets you off. John…

Ready Player One |2018| Directed by Steven Spielberg

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg movies. His movies made me fall in love with Cinema, the story, the emotions, the fear and everything. I still remember crying so much after watch ET, terrified after watching Jaws and being over the top with Close Encounters of Third Kind. Even after so many years, everytime a Steven Spielberg movie comes out I am so much excited and more to the fact that I am…

The Commuter |2018| Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

In their fourth collaboration together with a story quite similar to Non Stop except Liam Neeson is in train now. The Commuter is a story about Michael MacCauley, a former police officer, who is a family man with a wife and son. He goes through the same routine train commute to work and back every day, only to be fired from his job as a life insurance salesman after ten years. On the train,…

After Love |2016| ‘L’économie du couple’ Directed by Joachim Lafosse

    After 15 years of marriage, Marie and Boris are getting a divorce. Until they reach a settlement and Boris finds a place to live, they have cohabit. And this strains the situation even more. Marie doesn’t love Boris anymore. The sight of him makes her angry, his small things she used to like are the things now irritate her the most. The relationship between Marie and Boris reflects quite…

The Childhood of a Leader |2015| Directed by Brady Corbet

Charles: The tragedy is not only that Pontius Pilate betrayed his self but that hundreds in the crowd before him did betray their selves. And that’s what I wrote was the tragedy of war. Not that one man has the courage to be evil but that so many have not the courage to be good. It is terrifying to watch something like this, you are witnessing something in the past that shaped a future and had…

Eating Raoul |1982| Directed by Paul Bartel

Paul Bland is a wine dealer and Mary Bland is a nurse. They are both unsatisfied from their jobs, Paul gets fired after he orders a shipment of expensive wine and for not selling a brand of wine because he doesn’t like it. Both Mary and Paul dream of opening a restaurant but with barely enough money to get by, and despair that that they will ever realize their dream. Their plight is exacerbated…

The Deer Hunter |1978| Directed by Michael Cimino

The Deer Hunter opens in the small working class town of Clairton, Pennsylvania, we are introduced to steel workers Mike Vronsky, Steven Pushkov, and Nick Chevotarevich, with the support of their friends and co-workers Stan and Peter “Axel” Axelrod and local bar owner and friend John Welsh, prepare for two rites of passage marriage and military service. The first hour of the movie spends its time…

Sabrina |1954| Directed by Billy Wilder

Sabrina climbs on a tree spying on David with whom she has been in love with all her life. But the thing that is keeping them apart is that David Larrabee barely notices her also to the fact that he is a playboy and she is the young daughter of the Larrabee family’s chauffeur. Sabrina’s dad tries to convince her that her dream of being with David won’t come true as he says to her, Nobody poor was…

Leaving Las Vegas |1995| Directed by Mike Figgis

A tale of two tortured soul living in the city of sin. Ben strolls through the supermarket picking every bottle of alcohol he can find. He is already drunk over the limit any person can. He is let go from his job due to his alcoholism and also his wife has left him. With nothing left to live for, and a sizable severance check from his boss, he heads to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. Sera is…

The Ice Storm |1997| Directed by Ang Lee

Whenever it comes to story about white upper class family drama, the situations are quite similar. The husband is having an affair, the wife tries to ignore it while trying to find something of her, the children are either rebelling or trying to get out. The Ice Storm is quite that in that sort of manner. Set over Thanksgiving weekend, 1973, the film centers around two families: The Hoods (Ben…

The Spanish Apartment (‘L’Auberge espagnole’) |2002| Directed by Cédric Klapisch

It is a moment of life that you get before stepping really into the real world and the decision you take for it. Xavier is 24 year old and in order to get a position in his field of study he transfers to Barcelona via Erasmus programme. Martine, Xavier’s girlfriend doesn’t want him to go but he does anyway. Upon his arrival at Barcelona, he meets with a newly married French couple with whom he…

The Debt |2010| Directed by John Madden

Rachel Singer is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah’s book based on the account Rachel, Stefan and David gave of the events in 1965 where they killed  “The Surgeon of Birkenau” who was responsible his medical experiments on Jews during World War II. Parallel we see David  is escorted from his apartment by an Israeli government agent for a debriefing. David…

I Kill Giants |2017| Directed by Anders Walter

It brings you to the question you are asking yourself the whole time. Are the giants real or just Barbara’s fantasy of escaping a reality she couldn’t bare? I Kill Giants is a emotional tale with an adventure with Barbara who kills Giants. We are introduced to Barbara as she navigates through a forest with a self made chemical putting on the trees. She then goes to a small tent she has built…

Set in Boring Town in Oregon in 1996. Everything Sucks! revolves around groups of students attending Boring High School.Luke O’Neil, is a freshman with his friends McQuaid and Tyler, and are seen as social outcasts. They join A/V, where Luke develops a crush of  Kate Messner, who is a sophomore and the daughter of Principal of the high school. While Luke is making his big gesture to ask Kate out.…

Homicide |1991| Directed by David Mamet

You have to know what you are looking for, otherwise everything surrounding you will chew you in and spit it out. Police detective Bobby Gold is on a trail of Robert Randolph, who is on the FBI’s most wanted list, drug dealer and a cop killer. On the way to nab him, Gold and his partner Sullivan are stopped at a candy store where a elderly Jewish lady was murdered. First thing Gold says…