Melancholia
Year: 2011
Country: Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany
Genre: Drama / Sci – Fi
Director: Lars von Trier

Mark: 1 to 5 [5]

Plot: “Let us get it over with right away. The end of Lars von Trier’s film ‘Melancholia’. Everybody dies. Not just the guests at the grand wedding held in the first part of the film at an ever-so-romantic castle surrounded by a golf course. And not just all life on Earth. For in the world evoked by the Danish film maker this time, we are absolutely alone in the universe. So what ends in our planet’s cosmic embrace with the ten times bigger planet, Melancholia, is life as such and our recollection of it.
No ending could be more final. And, as Trier remarks with a black humour germane to him: ‘In a way, the film does have a happy ending’.”

Personal View: Awesome movie, with a wonderful landscape views. Different [of course] of others movies that talk about this subject, normally putting the U.S.A. as heroes of the world and always with a happy-nice ending, with people crying and thinking how emotional was the ending scene, of a probably kiss between the hero and the good girl, something that doesn’t make you think at all.
But this one makes you thing about several things, as you can die tomorrow, or in a seconds while reading this post, or after, and also thinking in a case ‘if I was living this situation’. Justine [Kirsten Dunst], feels things and knows things, as the 10 times bigger than the Earth, the planet Melancholia gets closer, her state of melancholia also gets bigger and bigger, saying things that they need to know, even in a maybe brutal way, but also gives comfort to her family. This movie makes you think a lot about accomplished things in your life, who would you spend the real last moments and stay together, holding hands in a magical cave waiting for the certain end of the world. This passes a human side of the situation, a conformism that it will end, has nothing else to do but waiting, because you are not a hero. Awesome!

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Phantom Pain
Year: 2009
Country: German
Genre: Drama
Director: Matthias Emcke

Accidents Happen

Year: 2009

Country: Australia

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Director: Andrew Lancaster

Mark: 1 to 5 [4]

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Bilal
Year: 2008
Country: India
Genre: Documentary
Director: Sourav Sarangi

Mark: 1 to 5 [1]

Plot: The story begins inside a small partitioned room in central Kolkata. Almost nothing is visible inside. In fact, Bilal’s parents don’t need any light to see things around; they are blind. Bilal is just three years old and he has an infant brother. Both can see. So together they live as if in a game of seeing and not seeing. Though of a very tender age, Bilal is fully aware of the physical handicap of his parents. He knows how to communicate with them through sounds and touch. He is never jobless – be it guiding his blind parents through the traffic or training up the art of making mischiefs to his brother. Whenever Bilal is in the mood for mischief, his parents become strict, and their son jumps into the world outside. Bilal tastes life on street from his elders – it’s hard. But he never gives up. Very unusually for our times, Bilal’s upbringing and care seems to have become a collective responsibility of all the neighbors. The film tells this curious story by observing the little boy over a year and capturing rare moments of sharing love, fun, cruelty and hope.

Personal View: Reading the plot you could imagine a wonderful movie, that s what I thought. A home-made movie, no-sense, few illumination that can remind us of  Christiane F. , this is a movie of kind that you think that can’t be worse, than few scenes after, it’s worse. The worst movie I saw at Film Festival!

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Zero
Year: 2009
Country: Poland
Genre: Action /Drama
Director: Pawel Borowski

Mark: 1 to 5 [1]

Plot: The day rises in a huge unspecified metropolis. A cell phone rings in a big manager’s cabinet on an international corporation’s building. A businessman looks at the cell’s screen for a while, and then he finally answers. It is a sloppy fat guy calling from a van, driven together with his strange friend. He asks for the decision regarding a certain person. After hesitating for a while, the businessman confirms the job. He does not suspect that his “yes” sets in motion stream of incidents which would affect fate of some persons. This is the beginning of multi-plot story, where the fate of many characters is interlaced by the consequences of their decisions.

Personal View: Imagine a suspense scene where all your emotions are all together waiting for the next moment, then a music very strong comes, for a while you think “What the hell? Had to be loud this way?” , but ok was a suspense scene so no problems, the movie is developing itself and you just don’t think and? The music again saying “Something is about to happen, get ready”. You can’t even pay attention to the movie, just wishing and praying to that music doesn’t come again, but it can torture you all the movie, so think twice to what this someday. Horrible, even the movie is good. Describing this movie in one word: Headache.

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Mamachas of the Ring
Year: 2009
Country: USA / Bolivia
Genre: Documentary
Director: Betty M. Park

Mark: 1 to 5 [2]

Plot: The story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, a cholita and wrestler who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling. In 2004, Carmen Rosa was at the forefront of a cholita wrestler revolution. Never before had Bolivia seen an indigenous woman into the ring. Along with three other cholitas, Carmen became an international star, and all four were foram the Mamachas of the Ring. The film begins in 2006, shortly after their return from a star-making turn on Peruvian TV—but their rapid success has come at a price. Jealousy and envy begin to ripple throughout the wrestling community, and eventually they are black-listed from performing in Bolivia’s main wrestling league. Betrayed but not discouraged, the Mamachas take matters into their own hands. They pound the pavement organizing their own shows, contracting media appearances, and traveling for days to perform across Bolivia, often to paltry crowds who can barely afford to pay the entrance fee. The pressures of daily living and gendered responsibilities begin to eat away at the foundation of the Mamachas, and Carmen Rosa increasingly shoulders more of the work burden. Her day job as a street vendor begins to suffer, and her attention to her family dwindles, until one day her husband issues her a firm ultimatum: wrestling or your family.

Personal View: If you saw the trailer and the picture will normaly imagine ‘wow that s a nice movie’, but it isn’t. Nice to laugh a little but it’s a movie that starts great and makes you sleep after a little and just lose the end with no regret. Could be a much better.

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I Killed My Mother
Year: 2009
Country: Canada
Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: Xavier Dolan

Mark: 1 to 5 [5!]

Plot: Hubert Minel, a brash 17-year-old, dislikes his mother intensely. He gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweaters, her kitschy decor and the vile bread crumbs that lodge in the corners of her noisy mouth. Below the surface of these irritating traits, lie the ingrained mechanisms that his mother has always cultivated so dearly – manipulation and guilt. Hubert, confused and torn by a love-hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, wanders in and out of an adolescence that is both marginal and typical, combining artistic discovery, openness to friendship, ostracism and sex.

Personal View: Best movie. Just the fact that the director is the writer and also the actor and be a biography movie, says for itself. The conflict with the mother so strong and impossible to happens an agreement. Normally french movies are good, and this didn’t disappointed me at all. Never saw before a mother singing Edith Piaf in a middle of a discussion, just awesome! Highly recommended!

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