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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