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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That’s all folks ;*

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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That’s all folks ;*