Tag: Movie dramas
“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” in the cinema: The Foreign – Culture
With “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” Whitney Houston gets a biopic that isn’t fixated on her tragic ending. But, for example, on a love that nobody knows. Of Juliana Liebert…
Jerzy Skolimowski’s film “EO” in the cinema: Big donkey – culture
Red strobe light, circles, angular shapes: the film begins under full stress during a circus performance in the ring. The protagonist doesn’t seem to know what’s happening to him, but…
"Oscar’s dress"comedy film about a trans child: Oh, you poor papa
“Oskars Kleid” by Hüseyin Tabak tells the topic of trans identity in children for a mainstream audience. Sorry, but it is not good. source site
"she said" in the cinema: Monster Hunters
In her Hollywood debut “She Said,” Maria Schrader tells the story of the two reporters who overthrew Harvey Weinstein. source site
“The silent satellites” in the cinema: enchanted sadness – culture
“The homeless are so lost … so vulnerable,” security guard Hans once said of the refugees in the dormitories, among which he made his rounds shift after shift. A small,…
“Sonne” by Kurdwin Ayub in the cinema: What’s it to you how I look! – Culture
The three friends are cranking it up, they’re wearing Yesmin’s devout mother’s hijabs, and the disguises spice up their bitch talk. They goof around, one butt vibrates – twerking in…
“Little Nick tells about happiness” in the cinema – culture
Big: “Little Nick” meets its creators, René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé, in an animated film made from their minds. Of Fritz Goettler A sunny, clear day in the late 1950s,…
“Cloudy Mountain” in the cinema: pathos on the angry mountain – culture
Yes, there are moments of calm in the beginning. A flight over a rugged mountain massif, a car ride over a bridge so high that it seems to end up…
"times of upheaval" in the cinema: Boy, that was close
New York 1980: In “Times of Upheaval” the celebrated director James Gray tells of his youth. source site
“You won’t get my hate” in the cinema: living on – culture
Of Johanna Adorjan After the Islamist terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, the Facebook post of a Frenchman whose wife had been murdered went viral. She had been…