Quartet of Danish lads off to fight The Taliban. Going to Afghanistan is compared to football: we’ve trained, now we need match practise. “It doesnt mean your mad if you laugh at irrelevant stuff. You need normality because this is all senseless” says officer to them. Filtered through the same greeny grain as Russian film [...]
On a remote island weather station with 2 isolated Russians – one older, one younger – not getting on. Its boiled walrus for dinner. Not the most riveting first 15 minutes. Setting of scene: scene is desolate, windswept, barren. Creating of mood: mood is solitary, lonely, disconnected. Pace is pedestrian. Talk is minimal. Drama is [...]
Similar in temperament to other Italian films I’ve seen: histrionic families shout at one another, slap one another, get on each others nerves. Gets on my nerves. The 2 brothers – one Fascist, one Communist – grow up, grow apart, love the same girl – yet love one another deep down. With a passion. Hot [...]
Watched this film a couple of years ago and yet have difficulty recollecting what it was about. It couldn’t have been that great. Anna develops infatuation with surgeon Dr Zanevsky. Anna stalks surgeon. Infatuation becomes obsessive and delusional. Anna is going to become a right pain in the. Now shes fiddling with herself in an [...]
This is the 3rd film of Austrian director Jessica Hausner I’ve seen in the last 2 months. She has a deliberately flattened out documentary-like style, acting is underplayed, emotion is understated – the tone consciously ambiguous, and so restrained it feels like the narrative is being willfully withheld, daring you to give up on it. [...]
