"Take my voice with you."
The Stoning Of Soraya M
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Genre: Crime/Drama
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Mark: 1 to 5 [5]
Plot: Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day before. As the journalist turns on his tape recorder, Zahra takes us back to the beginning of her story, which involves Soraya’s husband, the local phony mullah, and a town all too easily led down a path of deceit, coercion and hysteria. The women, stripped of all rights and without recourse, nobly confront the overwhelming desires of corrupt men who use and abuse their authority to condemn Soraya, an innocent but inconvenient wife, to an unjust and torturous death. A drama that exposes the dark power of mob rule, uncivil law, and the utter lack of human rights for women. The last and only hope for some measure of justice lies in the hands of the journalist who must escape with the story — and his life — so the world will know. Based on the book of the same title by French-Iranian author Freidoune Sahebjam.
Personal View: Shocking movie, based in a true history to just feel even more cruel. Shows the cruelty without ‘why’ at Iran, until what point a human being can be unfair to another person to kill that person, tru stoning. Strong scenes that ill anyone. One of the bests movies of this film festival. Highly recommended.
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Dear Lemon Lima
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy / Fiction
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
Mark: 1 to 5 [4]
Plot: Vanessa Lemor, 13, a lonely Yup’ik girl, is dumped by her true love – intellectual Philip Georgey,14 – and spends the summer obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy. She counts down the days to fall semester at Nichols School, a close-minded preparatory school in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the Georgey Family lives. Awarded the only minority scholarship, Vanessa’s new life is a nightmare. Back from a summer abroad and fluent in French, Philip is elevated to popular status, while Vanessa is relegated to life with the rest of the “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition”, FUBA. To make matters worse, she is elected captain for the school’s infamous Snowstorm Survivor competition, an event which simply perverts the traditional Native games of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics. But Vanessa believes that victory in the Snowstorm Survivor championship is the only way back into Philip’s heart. She quickly forms a quirky team of social misfits.
Personal View: Cute movie talking about relationships all the time, sometimes remembered Amelie Poulain at the screenshots and the fantasy. Emotional and laughing one. Typical teenager’s things but also a kind of different view. I liked and I recommend.
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Backyard
Year: 2009
Country: Mexico
Genre: Drama/Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Director: Carlos Carrera
Mark: 1 to 5 [3]
Plot: Blanca Bravo is a policewoman trained at the Police Academy in Mexico City. She is young, strong stern and idealistic. Upon her arrival in Ciudad Juárez, she has to cope with the string of murdered women, two each month in average, all of them young and pretty, most of them workers from the maquiladoras. Public opinion talks about a serial killer. In another story, Juanita Sánchez comes from Cintalapa, Chiapas, to work in the maquila. She is 18, hardworking and humorous. In just three months she turns into a selfassertive woman, learns modern patterns of thought in the maquiladora and finds herself a boyfriend, Cutberto, who has a house of his own. There is a promising future ahead of her. Pure chance – the way chance plays in a society where violence is entitled – throws a shadow upon her bright destiny.
Personal View: What can I say about this movie? Well nothing says more than this: “Mexican Cold Case”. Nice one, nice history but is like watching Cold Case in Spanish audio.
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Czar
Czar
Year: 2009
Country: Russia
Genre: Drama/History
Director: Pavel Lungin
Mark: 1 to 5 [2]
Plot: 1565. While the Polish enemy is advancing into Russian territory, czar Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible, is sinking into mystical madness. His personal militia is tormenting the people and the nobles, which causes the metropolitan, the head of the Russian Church, to resign. In his place, Ivan enthrones his childhood friend, the honest Philip. But the two men soon clash with each other. Philip is opposed to the bloody machinations of the czar, who believes himself to be the repository of God’s will. This is the beginning of a deadly duel, both political and spiritual.
Personal View: Long, sometimes boring movie, what saves a little is the ironic dark humor. Nothing more.
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Bananas!
Bananas!
Year: 2009
Country: Sweden
Genre: Documentary
Director: Fredrik Gertten
Mark: 1 to 5 [2]
Plot: The world’s biggest fruit company – Dole Food Company – is on trial in the USA by the accusation of poisoning their workers. For the first time in history, a small US law firm represents Nicaraguan workers, who claim to be infertile because of the toxic pesticides the fruit-corporation used on their bananas plantations.
Personal View: One more not too good movie. Imagine the movie ‘Fast Food Nation’, now imagine this movie but instead of hamburgs, bananas. Ok until that part just another copy, but you can still waiting for a good movie that isnt’t exactly what happens. This movie doesn’t show as should be the both parts of the case, just show barely the part of who worked at the bananas plantations. In every case to have a case first of all, it needs to have 2 parts, so they doesn’t show the Dole Food part, their argumments. Focus on the fancy car of the lawer wasn’t really necessary, could be big better.
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We wish u merry Christmas and a happy new year... (8)
Ho ho ho merry Christmas everyone!
The date that is celebrated the birthday of the real Chuck Norris, Jesus Christ.
Particularly I m not a real fan of this date, or even New Year, ok that is a date of happiness, that is everybody wishing the best for everyone.
But why all this fake moralist if at all year you even seen this person? Or worse… you and this being don’t like each other and have to wish the best when is midnight?
For me it s just a commercial date, to everyone buy things, lost money and after cry all over it.
The Christmas is made all long the year, each day of behavior and care for the others, this spirit has to be inside us everyday and not just one day.
But taking this part off, it s a date to hug who we like.
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The Dispensables
The Dispensables
Year: 2009
Country: German
Genre: Drama
Director: Andreas Arnstedt
Mark: 1 to 5 [3]
Plot: The tragic story being told in this movie is about an eleven year old child growing up in a lower working class family. The mother’s alcoholism reached a level that brought her in a psychiatry ward for detoxification and the father, not really able to educate his child anyway, ends up committing suicide in the living room. The child tries to cover up the death of his father out of fear to be brought to an orphanage, so he spends two weeks with the corpse of his father. As he can behave more freely while on his own, he starts to develop features he disliked in his father.
Personal View: Not a dispensable movie but not a ‘oh’ movie. The fact of a kid pretend that his father is alive, but in fact he was behind the sofa and covering the smell with incense, and even after all the things he passed at this complicated family. A drunk/bipolar mother at recovering, and a drunk aggressive father that most of times just scream but in rare times try to demonstrate some care on his son. Perturbed guy with fears and doing something that the most of the kids would do [except the ones that would enter in shock]. Not so good why? Coz it takes so long to show the situation, very long movie that sometimes makes you tired. But a nice movie, positive point is that you only realize the full context at the end, really the end of the movie. Recommended.
[yep no trailer available]
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Persecution
Persecution
Year: 2009
Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Mark: 1 to 5 [5]
Plot: Daniel, 35, lives a busy but solitary existence that’s peppered by his troubled affair with Sonia, a woman he seems to both love and loath, but can’t get enough of. Out of nowhere, a mysterious man shows up in his apartment. What Daniel believes to be a one-time event starts happening more and more, and the unlikely intruder just doesn’t leave him alone. The unending harassment begins to take its toll on the tormented relationship with Sonia, and when she suddenly decides to leave him, Daniel’s left facing a slew of unanswered questions.
Personal View: One of the best films, not only as common french movies that has just cigars, non sleeping people and then, but also a full evolving drama, so drama that in the end of the movie was just all quiet, no talking no nothing. Really sad but so awesome. Coz in life the only sure we have is that things ends.
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Tokyo!
Tokyo!
Year: 2008
Country: France, Japan, South Korea and Germany
Genre: Drama/Fiction
Directors: Michael Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho
Mark: 1 to 5 [5]
Plot: Three directors examine the peculiar and unforgettable nature of the Japanese megalopolis that doesn’t stop growing. In Michel Gondry’s Interior Design, a young couple tries to adjust itself to Tokyo city. The man has a very focused ambition of being a film director; on the other hand, his indecisive girlfriend can’t shake off the feeling of having lost control of her own life. In Merde, by Leos Carax, a mysterious creature spreads panic through the streets of Tokyo with its disturbing and destructive behavior. In Bon Joon-Ho’s Shaking Tokyo, a young boy has been a hikikomori (a person living completely isolated in their home) for over ten years. His contact with the outside world is minimal. One day, a young pizza delivery girl goes to his apartment as an earthquake hits the city. In an unexpected turn of events, they fall in love.
Personal View: Just for the fact that when I saw ‘same director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ I could not let this movie to see after or don’t! Three different histories passed at the same city. Unfortunately at the last part when the Bong Joon-Ho one was developing itself i had to see other movie, but nothing as a simple download do solve this problem.
The Michael Gondry one is so full made of fantasy, touch ourselves with the simplicity of the things, his personal way to show life that s amazing.
The Leos Carax one so crazy, funny and show as things do not change. Liked a lot.
And the last one sweet showing what a hikikomori can do for love and also showing the strange hobbies around this lifestyle. But no doubt that the best was from Gondry.
Highly recommended!
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The Architect
Der Architekt – The Architect
Year: 2009
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Ina Weisse
Mark: 1 to 5 [2]
Plot: The successful Hamburg architect Georg Winter travels with his wife and two grown-up children to attend his mother’s funeral in a snowy mountain village where he grew up as a child. At the funeral, the mysterious Hannah and her son Alex suddenly appear. She unearths a truth which drags the family into a vortex of desires and confusion. When a snow avalanche cuts the village off from the outside world, there’s no escape.
Personal View: I tried to see this movie just twice, all the times I just take this one to fill the blanks between a movie to other one. Did I like it? No! Even knowing that a German movie has a mind line different from the other movies, that they are ‘strange’ somehow, and knowing that the culture has a special part at this.
Senseless? Yep, a lot. Father that loves other woman instead the wife, that kissed the daughter, ok in a context maybe but not this way. One or other part has something, or makes you laugh a little, just.
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