Tag: Film dramas
"I Captain" in the cinema: Something better than death
The Oscar-nominated drama “I Capitano” tells of two young Senegalese people who flee to Europe and suffer terrible things – as a fairytale hero’s journey. That raises questions. source site
"Little dirty letters" in the cinema: In the swear word fireworks
Hate mail, long before the Internet: In “Little Dirty Letters” Thea Sharrock revives a 100-year-old English scandal – and the forbidden appeal of swearing. source site
Anorexia thriller “Club Zero” in the cinema: Starving for a better world – culture
When you see Miss Novak walking across the schoolyard, filmed in slow motion, you can sense the nonchalance that she always promises her students, something otherworldly, magical, unreal, a touch…
Mia Wasikowska in an interview: “Real Hunger Games? Without me” – Culture
Australian actress Mia Wasikowska on her radical film “Club Zero”, conscious eating, healing fasting and the nutritional value of light and air. The day before at the premiere of her…
"One Life" in the cinema: So many lives
A great actor as a savior of the Jews – can that work? In “One Life” Anthony Hopkins plays the “British Schindler” Nicholas Winton. source site
“Slow” in the movies: How to have a relationship with an asexual person – Culture
Could it be that couples who have to defend their love against society’s standardized ideas treat each other more considerately and carefully? At least that’s what two films that have…
"The innocence" in the cinema: Plow through reality
In “Innocence,” the great cinema humanist Hirokazu Kore-eda shows through a change of perspective that all people are basically good. Can you find that bad? source site
“Return to Corsica” in the cinema: Pity is for the trash can – culture
A summer film, a departure: Catherine Corsini’s “Return to Corsica” is a relentless, tender family story between black and white. The garden gate is locked and when the bell button…
"Almodovar shorts" in the cinema: Saloon of the tight butts
Two short films with stars make up an evening at the cinema: In “Strange Way of Life” and “The Human Voice” Pedro Almodóvar shows a lot of himself. source site
“The Glory of Life” in the cinema: In bed with Kafka – culture
“The Glory of Life” tries to show another Kafka, a cheerful, in-love Franz. But the film freezes before the dark cliché. Already after the first Baltic Sea scenes, flooded with…