Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts

Thursday, December 3, 2009

"Paranormal activity" ~ 3/10

Despite a good trailer showing the audience attending the public premiere of the film and freaking out, there is almost nothing but some stupid american standard couple (he's a wannabe homeworking trader, she's a student, they live in a huge house in San Diego...) with the weird idea of filming themselves while asleep, and hoping to catch a demon...
At least for once they picked up normal people from real life, and not a whole bunch of bikini bimbos to get slashed in the movie.
And there was one good quote from "Monty Python's the Holy Grail" (there are no bad quotes from this, anyway ! ^^).
That's all. :-(

Thursday, August 13, 2009

"Madre e Ossa" [fr="L'amour caché"] ~ 7/10

This film gives the impression it was made in the eighties, for its style and for the story it tells. It has the same qualities as many good 80's french movies, plus a good visual aesthetic (they did not always have that back then).
The actresses are excellent, and the language is beautiful. Plus, the music takes a very special part in the psychic mood of the film.

Had it actually been done in the eighties, it would now be considered a masterpiece, maybe.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

"Silk" [fr="Soie"] ~ 6/10

Per una volta la critica la faccio in italiano. Dopotutto, questo film in inglese è l'adattazione di un romanzo breve italiano ("Seta", un'opera assolutamente sublime di Alessandro Baricco), la cui storia si svolge in Francia e in Giappone. Mentre il libro era un bel piccolo capolavoro, diventando un film ha perduto un po l'emozione della scoperta di un paese lontano e misterioso, forse per colpa della musica di Ryûichi Sakamoto che ci allontana troppo dai sentimenti veri dei personaggi.
Ma la storia rimane bellissima. E sopratutto, non è internazionale, ma proprio universale : l'amante che uno ha, l'amante che uno fantasma, l'amante che uno cerca, e finalmente l'amante che uno trova. La storia di Baricco, per quanto è sviluppata nel libro o nel film, è forse una specie di domanda : chi sta capace di riunire tutte queste amanti in una sola donna, e come lo fa ?
La risposta che ottiene il protagonista Hervé Joncour (incarnato da Michael Pitt) non è quella che aspettava ; è meglia.
Un punto positivo del film, paragonato al libro, anche se non è molto, è di avere cambiato il nome del personaggio interpretato da Yakusho Kôji : Hara Kei (perché fu anche il soprannome di un Primo Ministro giapponese).

> For once, I will write the critic in italian. After all, this english speaking movie is the adaptation of an italian short story ("Seta", a sublime work by Alessandro Baricco), the story of which is set in France and Japan. The book was a pretty little masterpiece, but it somehow lost the emotion of the discovery of a mysterious and far country, maybe because of Ryûichi Sakamoto's music which keeps us away from the characters' feelings.
But the story remains beautiful. And above all, it is not international, but quite universal : the lover one has, the lover one fantasizes, the lover one seeks, and finally the lover one finds. Baricco's story, as developed in the book as in the film, might be a sort of question : who is capable of unifying all those lovers in one single woman, and how ?
The answer that Hervé Joncour (impersonated by Michael Pitt) obtains is not what he expected ; it is better.
A good point about the movie, in comparison with the book, even if it is not much, is that they changed the name of the character impersonated by Yakusho Kôji : Hara Kei (as it also was the nickname of a japanese Prime Minister).

Saturday, August 1, 2009

"Eden Log" ~ 5/10

Not much to say about this pretty little french movie. The style is good, the aesthetic somehow minimalistic (and then full of fractals...), the story simple yet not uninteresting (Pierre Bordage surely has a lot of talent as a science-fiction writer).
Clovis Cornillac, though, is not as good here as he was in other movies.

Friday, July 24, 2009

"Piano no Mori" [fr="Piano Forest"] ~ 3/10

This movie could have contained some good points about the learning and interpretation of music, but is just as formatted as any japanese TV anime, and even has strange defects, like wrong use of cellulos, wrong spelling of "Schubert"... Eww !
The only "quality" might be the fact that it shows classical music instead of superpowers in a "shônen anime"... !

Monday, June 22, 2009