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

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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