Summer with Monika
Summer with Monika
Genre: Drama
Love, summer, pregnancy, Boat, Stockholm, Baltic Sea
Based on the novel of the Swedish novelist Per Anders Fogelström, who together with director Ingmar Bergman also wrote the screenplay for the film, this black and white film evolved from 1953, the date appears again in the Ingmar Bergman in two Arthaus DVD. Summer with Monika tells the story of a young love, in the carelessness of a stolen summer blooms and then in the demands of everyday life that they can not carry, threatens to suffocate. As the young, hungry for life Monika (Harriet Andersson) and the quiet Harry (Lars Ekborg), in Stockholm investigate the early 1950s, more forced than eagerly their unskilled jobs meet each other paves, between the two different personalities rapidly to a love story. While Harry is basically a dutiful young man, Monika is more inclined towards the frivolous pleasures, which are then Harry can seduce the hinschmeißt abruptly due to a discord his job. Now follows a carefree summer in the middle of a heavenly nature, spent by the lovers in the little boat of Harry’s father on the Baltic. photographed in beautiful images celebrating the two here their magical nearby defend to defend themselves against an intruder to tell from their unpleasant childhood and make plans for a common future, move their imaginations in bourgeois ideals of family, because Monika expected now a child of Harry. After gradually with inventories exhausted the good mood turn, Monika and Harry returned to Stockholm, where Harry’s Aunt (Dagmar Ebbesen), thankfully, that the young couple can marry. While Harry fortbildet next to the work to be an engineer, there is so very Monika can not handle in the confines of the barren and civic life. After the birth of her daughter, she buries itself first in its witty, melancholy mood, so the aunt takes care of the baby, and then it begins again to hang around with men … The very young couple with so different personalities and needs, early parenthood, the material poverty and the social constraints – in strong, intense pictures here a portrait of a love of drawing, which breaks inevitably to the demands of everyday life. Summer with Monika, who is a carefree summer as a strong contrast against this failure, renounces obvious moralizing and focuses on the sensations and movements of its two main characters in their dense universe, which will prove ultimately to be too narrow to permanently social space to exist. Although the film clearly comes along in the spirit of its date, the themes of the couple appear unchanged but to date, so this early Bergman plant could almost make a lesson about the pitfalls of young love. (Mary Anderson)
Title: Summer with Monika Original Title: Sommar med Monika Country of production: Sweden Production year: 1953 Length: ( #) 92 (Min.) Published at: format: 1.33:1 tone / language: Dolby Digital mono, German , Swedish EAN: 4006680054254 Extras: biography of Ingmar Bergman, production notes. The DVD is released within the “Ingmar Bergman Edition 2″
Conviction
Jun 18, 2010 Biography, Drama, Thriller
Conviction
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Biography
Miscarriage of justice, sibling relationships, study, Advocate
Kenny Waters in 1983 will be sentenced for murder. His sister Betty Anne is convinced that he is innocent. The mother of two brings her to school and studied law in order to represent her brother as a lawyer. For 18 years she has worked doggedly on the case, get Kenny to be free again. Finally opened a DNA test to prove the possibility of Kenny’s innocence for good. Title: Conviction Country of production: USA Production year: 2011
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Pippa Lee
Jun 16, 2010 Biography, Drama, Literature
Pippa Lee
Genre: Drama, literature
Berlinale 2009, retirement, marital crisis, nervous breakdown
What has this woman not seen it all: In the past, Pippa Lee (played in the early years of Blake Lively), a wild party girl, that was hardly averse to experiment and try out the one everyone wanted. Which included among other things, lesbian relationships, drugs and many forms of relationships as well as almost all the dramas of human life. No wonder, for even her childhood with her mother medikamentenanhängigen was not really inspired to allow the daughter of a stable and reliable education bestowed. Meanwhile, however, seems to have all that changed for the better. Pippa is old in the meantime, around 50 years (she is played by Robin Wright Penn looks now), still dazzling, and with its marriage to the publisher 30 years earlier Herb Lee (Alan Arkin) come into calmer waters. As well as eloquent radiant center of the circle of friends around her successful husband is the flawless ideal of a loving wife, full of spirit, wit and charm. After the third heart attack of her husband pull the contemplative both from the hectic Manhattan in a retired town (which is called by Herb disrespectfully “Wrinklebury” back), where the clocks seem to go slower. But even here one can not stop Herbs advanced age. While starting to show signs of slow early decay, he is sleepwalking and then ill with dementia, Pippa remembers her past life. For it is increasingly clear that soon, a life will end, that nothing remains as it was. And then there is the irritating and obviously very unstable son (Keeanu Reeves), the neighbor, the Pippa is getting closer. The eventful life of Pippa Lee is beginning to see through the not too easy. Almost seamlessly, and fluently moves the director Rebecca Miller, who also wrote the novel to the film, between the wild youth of its heroine and its quieter at some life in the present, which has yet despite the perfect facade for a closer look similar quirks like that of the “Desperate Housewives.” Nevertheless, the film is much more than just a decal and a concentration on the successful model of the successful U.S. television series. Very slowly and carefully, full of humor and a sense for the bizarre, but also full respect for all parties stripped the film is a biography that appears to be greatly exaggerated but only at first glance. In truth, it is all described excesses and later laboriously constructed settled existence to preserve something deeply human: to the questioning of life models, the impossibility, the transience of happiness and the need to confront its own past and their influence to recognize their own lives. Perfect and with a more than worth seeing Cast blessed (besides those mentioned, it is mainly Julianne Moore and Monica Bellucci, to be remembered), turns out to Rebecca Miller’s Pippa Lee with recalcitrant family drama and history of emancipation, with some Barb, whose sometimes very erratic structure simply does not access. That one is still full of sympathy and sit tied, is mainly due to the warmth of the story and Robin Wright Penn, enchanted every minute of this film and delighted. (Paul Collmar) was used to Pippa Sarkassian (Robin Wright Penn), a wild girl who missed no party and almost all incorporated on drugs, find what they could, but since then the has learned thirty years older Publishers Herbert Lee (Alan Arkin know and love) and she is the wife of the brave and successful maker brings two children to the world. When the two Herbs for third heart attack to adopt more or less out of her exciting life in the big city and retreat to retire – this is Pippa just 50 – for them it is time to turn their lives Revue to have happen. And in retrospect it is clear why this woman was to what it is today. Relentlessly, it covers its drawbacks and weaknesses, and must finally recognize that their beloved husband cheating on her for years. But not just any top, each end also dwells a magic – especially with 50 life is far from over … The world of writers and artists, it is Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur Miller and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis a familiar metier. Your in parts bizarre comic drama with big names like Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin and Keanu Reeves acts but overall too mundane to actually touch. And deal, given the problems with which Pippa Lee needs to get there can not help but miss the film as a description of its contents, especially the label of ‘Desperate Housewives – The Next Generation “. (Festival Berlinale in 2009 for criticism of Joachim Kurz)
Title: Pippa Lee Original Title: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Country of production: USA Production year: 2008 Length: 93 (Min.) Distribution: Senator Film Distribution
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Public Enemy No.. 1
Jun 16, 2010 Action, Biography, Criminal, Movie Trailers, Thriller
Public Enemy No.. 1 – Murder Instinct (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Biography
Murder, Jacques Mesrine, criminal, bank robbery, 1970
Against him was “Scrooge” just a small fish. Jacques Mesrine, France’s most famous criminals terrorized for over 20 years, the Grande Nation. Whether bank collapses, brutal murders, kidnappings or spectacular eruptions from ice-cold high-security prisons – Mesrine criminal file space offered for multiple phone books. When on the second November 1979 will be shot on the street in Paris, drew on all of France. Mesrine gruesomely fascinating life cried out for a movie adaptation. Director Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precint 13) knew at the same time, however, that the substance was overcome in two-hour movie barely. Therefore, he splitted up Mesrine story in two parts. The first part Public Enemy No.. 1 – murder instinct told in classic style gangster film about the rise in France, Mesrine crooks scene. Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (Start date: 21.5) shows Mesrine as degenerate public enemy No 1, the skins swim rapidly away. In 1956, the jovial, 19-year-old Jacques (Vincent Cassel) collected in the Algerian war. When truncated, hearted man, he returns back in 1959, the Paris home. Without training soon his hopes vanish on a regular, decent-paying work. Mesrine pent-up aggressions find an outlet as the creator of crime boss Guido (Gerard Depardieu bloated one on the verge of self-parody) to know. Together, the two mix, the Paris underworld with brutal and brazen raids. As Mesrine shoots his first man he appears below and is based in Spain with the naive Sofia (Elena Anaya), a family. But Mesrine is an adrenaline junkie, and depending on the crime-kicks. But he leaves Sofia and his three small children sit in cold blood. Mesrine it pulls back on the road. Together with the unpredictable Jeanne Schneider (Cecile de France committed) it in a “Bonnie and Clyde” spectacular raids. be taken up both in Canada. Mesrine is ordered to solitary confinement and tortured by several guards brutally. But it can not break the officials. On the contrary, Mesrine hatches an escape plan from the high-security prison of its own. Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct in front of genre needs role models like Scarface (1983) American Gangster (2007) not to hide. Richet was achieved with the outrageously expensive biopic, based on Mesrine in prison constituted an autobiography, a rousing thriller. Over the full period shown by the young filmmakers, a feeling for atmospheric, sumptuous images, consistent dialogue and perfectly arranged, in Heat (1996), reminiscent action sequences. Brilliant in the supporting roles filled by Vincent Cassel stands out in the title role. With constantly changing appearance – he took during the nine months filming 20 pounds – he shows oppressively intense all facets of the dangerous killer, ranging from charming flirtation attempts to gruesome outbreaks of violence. Reward for the effort was a César, the Cassel for his tour de force this year received. (Florian Koch)
Title: Public Enemy No.. 1 – Murder Instinct (DVD) Original Title: Mesrine: L’instinct de mort Country of production: France Production year: 2008 Length: 105 (min .) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French EAN: 886 973 831 793 Extras: Interview with Vincent Cassel and Jean-François Richet, Trailer
Public Enemy No.. 1
Jun 16, 2010 Action, Biography, Criminal, Movie Trailers, Thriller
Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Biography
Murder, Jacques Mesrine, criminal, bank robbery, Canada, jailbreak, 1970
Robert de Niro has done it, Sylvester Stallone, too. At the end of the food chain now Vincent Cassel, who rose as before, the two Hollywood stars for a role of 20 kilos. To the bloated gangster Jacques Mesrine in Public Enemy No. 1 – death instinct credible to embody the French method actor turned to his diet radically. Cassel was eating five times a day for four months, combined with beer syrup and allowed himself 1300 calories a strong milk shakes. Medically questionable, the effort was worth the charismatic actor. Cassel was awarded for his role in the recently César for best actor. , Concentrated, director Jean-François Richet Mesrine in the rise of small-time crook to professional gangster shows him to the continuation of the death instinct as a self-infatuated media hero, desperate to knit his own legend. After his spectacular escape from a Canadian prison Mesrine it pulls back to France in 1973, where he will soon be the merciless Commissioner Boussard (Olivier Gourmet taken). But would not Mesrine Mesrine, if he does not yet have an escape plan in store. Located in the courthouse, he captures the judge and can pile up again. When he again during a bank robbery falls into the clutches of the police, Mesrine landed in a Paris high-security wing. There he wrote his memoirs, and learn the cool Strippers King Besse (Mathieu Amalric) know. The two criminals are watching each first like famished tiger in the cage before it binds the desire for thrills. They share the seemingly impossible escapes from jail. Despite a massive manhunt, the police can not catch Besse and Mesrine. A few days of freedom, the two packs and returning to the criminal hunting fever. You want to rob a heavily guarded casino of Deauville – without considering the risks of their daring plan. Richet also holds in the second part of the French Gangstersaga up the tension, is form and content but in other areas as Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct. Embeds a death wish stronger the political background of the plot. Foreign, radical terrorist organizations like the Red Brigades and the RAF to inspire Mesrine its anarchic violence. From a radical leftist drive the smug loner wants to know nothing. What interests him is rather the game with the media, which made him the “public enemy No. 1 transfigure. Cassel succeed here especially to show the vanity and increasing isolation Mesrine. At his side shine Bond villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Ludivine Sagnier in the spectacular (Swimming Pool) as a girlfriend Sylvie Mesrine nationals. In spite of the more complex characters, character drawing succeeds director Richet in the second part, to place a number of spectacular action scenes. He chases the young filmmakers obviously staged as a tribute to William Friedkin (French Connection) and John Frankenheimer (Ronin) work. Richet reveled in Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct still in blues and reds, he designed a death wish for a different color that corresponds with its brown and orange accent the changing temporal and thematic focus of the second part. Although developed here some storyline somewhat frayed and acts as a less concentrated in one part, and Richet a torture scene stylized exaggeration of a journalist selbstzweckhaft, bringing Public Enemy No.. 1 – Jacques Mesrine, the death instinct farewell after four hours in an overall better end. (Florian Koch)
Title: Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (DVD) Original Title: L’ennemi public n ° 1 Country of production: , Canada, France Production year: 2008 Length: 128 (Min.) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French EAN: (# ) 886974607496 Extras: Making Of, Trailer
Che
Che – Part 1: Revolución
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
South America, revolution, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Guerrilla
Steven Soderbergh’s two-part film about the legendary guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara is not a hollywoodeskes biopic: neither is in the ambitious task to an epic that’s long been a pop icon has become the main character glorifies and perpetuates so the myth of the noble freedom fighter, nor The film is emotional cinema, the emotional appeal to its viewers with a dramatic plot, and to identify invites. Instead, put the versatile American director in his audience very definitely a reflection distance by the argumentative structure of his film by the tense exchange of different – even between color and black and white iridescent – time levels dialectical charges. Even acts of war are as yet broken through the reading of Che’s Cuban revolution diary. However, CHE – Revolución, the first part of the film thoughtfully restrained portraits not only serious and theoretically, but also sensual concrete. Minutely it will contain the various stages of the Cuban struggle for freedom traced, beginning with the disastrous landing on the Caribbean island in December 1956, continues in the strategically important battles in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra and ultimately in the long, in the end victorious battles at the City of Santa Clara flows, leading to the flight of the dictator Batista. Ernesto Guevara (Benicio del Toro) rise from the expedition doctor who operated on wounded, to the selfless courage and relentless fight fellow comandante, executed the marauding deserters can be, taking place this rather unspectacular. Che presents itself as an equal among equals, which is led by a strong sense of justice and will remain in his revolutionary practice always committed to his ideals. It is this inner strength and willpower, which express themselves in Che’s constantly acting, his discipline and tenacity have Soderbergh interested. And he believes that this purity widerspiegle most clearly in the simple lifestyle of the jungle warrior. Che in turn, speaks in his diary, but also in a 1964 interview with a journalist from the New York Times of the crucial psychological effects in the revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice: To know what one is fighting, Che Guevara lives on a daily basis. Ideals and practices are in line with him and in this he is a role model and teacher. Che’s utopian spirit of the dreams of liberation all over America and strongly articulated in a speech before the United Nations in New York shows, both to advance its political isolation and his tragic failure in the Bolivian jungle. (Wolfgang Nierlin)
Title: Che – Part 1: Revolución Country of production: U.S., Spain Production year: 2008 Length: 126 (Min.) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 0886975169399 (# ) Extras: None
Mr. Nobody
Jun 14, 2010 Biography, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Mr. Nobody
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Life change, butterfly effect
It is the year 2092nd A journalist asks a rather confused-looking and decrepit before his teeth chattering man: “How was it actually, when people were still mortal?” The wrinkled guy who lies in a hospital bed, in an ultra-modern, our strange reality in which everyone calls him just Mr. Nobody smiled back mischievously and describes with a nostalgic reminder of the nature of its former life, the bad, ruchvollen clear rounds-years “Oh, we smoked, we ate meat. Actually, not much happened. It was like a French movie. It was wonderful.” Crafty Confronted with this answer, the journalist falls in an awkward silence. Now he Targets expectantly to be lumpy recording device that he says he has stolen a historical museum, and hopes that the circular tape rolls are also to record everything that is able to elicit from the last mortal man of his memory. In the future, things are simply different. And so it is a sensation, what Mr. Nobody – Nemo Nobody – after 92 years, now awakened from the clinical rigidity, can tell his posterity about the past. That Nobody, which is just as Odysseus, as he is on his trip around the world threatened by the Cyclops polyps, to protect and darkening of his identity, just Nemo (Latin: No one called) tries to remember how his far back life has been lying, as it passed by, what a disappointment followed by love and sorrow in which the joy. But the conversations with the journalists, who together with the exploration of a doctor from the high-tech future form the framework for action obscure more than clarify that they could: they are the stories of a man without qualities, is the sense of possibility in the sense of reality. For Mr. Nobody reported with review of his 34th Year, with view to the year 2009, not, as his life lost, but how it could have been – in three variations, a twisted than the other. The Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael have with this film and almost $ 48,000,000 expensive experiment, which is a journey of discovery through the identity of the man, a fantastic, poignant, perhaps even shot the best film this year. Jared Leto jumps into the role of the 34 – or 118-year-old boy and an old man, fooling us, such as biographies can proceed infinitely confused when fate strikes differently than planned. In the year 2092 is painted from Nemo, what would have happened if he was then, as a school boy (Thomas Byrne), as his parents had divorced themselves, would not have remained with his mother (Natasha Little), but with his father (Rhys Ifans). He imagines what would have happened if he his great love, Anna (Laura Brumagne as 9 -, Juno Temple as a 15 -, Diane Kruger as a 30-year-olds) on the beach after the call, whether he wants to swim, then, is not immediately followed would be, but they would have shown up with the answer: “I do not go swimming with idiots.” They never had to come closer, they would never be kissed. Instead, Nemo would have the lovely Elise (Léa Thonus, Clare Stone, Sarah Polley met). A pretty little creature who really loved the heartthrob Stefano (Ben Mansfield). What would have happened if Nemo had not given up when he saw standing around the older, good-looking boy from Elise’s doorstep? What would have happened if he had gone, despite the tough competition just to Elise and would have kissed passionately? They would have married. But they were also together when, disappointed by their reserve, would have gone to the school disco and actually married the first wife would have to dance with him? No. Then in 2009, Nemo would not be with Elise, but with Jean (Anaïs Van Belle, Audrey Giacomini, Linh Dan Pham) married. He was rich and totunglücklich. Instead of being poor, and to wait for the return of his great love, Anna, whom he had met because of a tiny different decision taken before. Intertwines How Jaco Van Dormael in his richly detailed screenplay, the plot lines is overwhelming art is masterful. The camera tracks and pans, the gliding transitions from the future into the present and back into the past are so sensitive implemented as resourceful and gallant, that it just sits in amazement in front of the canvas, given the skill of this increasingly massive spreading Panopticon. The Belgian Van Dormael, who has worked on this film since 1996, dissected, life in its diversity, penetrates with his characters, the realms of time and space. He makes himself a never boring act that has all the qualities of an entertainment film, to find the extent of contingent decisions in a superficial dominated by the technology of human reality. He makes the rationality postulate of the modern against an imaginative construct that makes the separation between fictionality and factuality impossible. When the interview the journalist asked Mr. Nobody curious: “What now? Is your wife dead or not? Was she married or were they not married?” Nemo and driving with a further, still sketchy history, the complexities of his life at the top, then he has been a roundabout way to answer this question now banal-looking, all these lives could have been his. And so, united like a 118-year-old not only the experience of a 34-year-olds, but also the thoughts and feelings of a 15 – and 9-year-olds, it is also the possibility of becoming, the potentiality of another existence, which one would be can any individual innate indelible. Robert Musil has made us in his great novel The Man Without Qualities , what makes possible people like Nemo, “Who has a sense of possibility, says not, for example: here this or that happened, will happen happen, it must, but he invents: This could, should, or ought to happen, and when we told him of something that it is the way it is, then he thinks: Well, it could probably be different. ” With Mr. Nobody has the greatest novel in German literature received a cinematic counterpart. One can only hope that many viewers find their way into the cinema to unravel this wonderful, psychologically motivated, up to the ramifications of the reality of empathy identity collage. This much is clear: After this experience will receive its own perspective on the life of a whole new color, what is more: a new face. (Tomasz Kurianowicz)
Title: Mr. Nobody Country of production: , Canada, France, Belgium Year of Production: 2009 Length: 138 (Min.) ( #) Distribution: Concorde Film Distribution
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Amelia
Amelia
Genre: Drama, Biography
1930, Amelia Earhart, pilot, Pacific, world tour
Take a recognized film director, an actor stargespicktes Ensemble, a renowned writers and give added a compelling life story. These ingredients create Oscar winners such as A Beautiful Mind. The fact that this drawing board in the Hollywood hit-designed concept can also go completely wrong, proves the case Amelia. With lots of early praise for a terrific Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart fly channel icon sailed Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) opulent biopic in October 2009 in the U.S. cinemas. But the first reviews were devastating and the audience completely ignored the drama (only $ 14,000,000 box office). One explanation for this debacle provides the problematic approach to the figure of Amelia Earhart. Not her complex personality is the focus of the film, but the relationship with her mentor, George Putnam (Richard Gere) and the simple-chronological treat their achievements. Amelia Earhart as a child dreams of a career as a pilot. But a woman of this demanding profession in the 20s is not yet capable of. But Amelia can be traced from these male macho prejudices not thrown off course and mastered her first transatlantic flight in 1928 – but only as a female passenger. In the press find their tenacity and their undoubted qualities of a positive response. With the support of the New York publisher, and later husband, George Putnam (Richard Gere) she succeeds in 1932 as the first woman (and cross over to the second man after the legendary Charles Lindbergh), the Atlantic in a solo. At home, she will celebrate it like a star, Amelia gives lectures and, with her passionate nature and durchsetzungsfreudigen soon as a role model for many young women. The relationship with Putnam, which is increasingly in the shadow of Amelia gets, but in a crisis when she gets involved in an affair with the former smart football and basketball player Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) and later the father of author Gore Vidal Star. These private faults Amelia hold but not stop them from making plans for a first circumnavigation of the earth along the equator. Amelia Earhart is based mainly on the biographies of Susan Butler ( East to the Dawn. The Life of Amelia Earhart ) and Mary S. Lovell ( The Sound of Wings. The Life of Amelia Earhart ). To add to the authenticity or, Mira Nair in the voice-over also quotes from the well-documented diary entries of Amelia and cuts again and again original footage from newsreels in their film. Despite all these efforts succeed the Indian woman is not to generate real interest for the figure. This is all the more regrettable because the was said at the early age of 40 years in 1937 in the Pacific pilot lost such a big influence. By Amelia famous pugnacity, their desire for independence, its callousness in times of intense pressure situations in Swank’s incarnation to feel anything anymore. There remain – with trouser suits and short hair – the visual similarity, but except for one annoying permanent smile, the Oscar winner of the figure does not elicit more exciting facial traits. After all, Swank is in (un) good company, because Gere is once again set to the gentle smiling gigolo-type. A slick McGregor to beat in its awkward dramatic performances interwoven mini no spark. Worse still, the figure seems superfluous, and the historically dubious love triangle relationship is more of a time-eater, for a content relevant factor. Amelia degenerates on the basis of these factors may produce a slow gurgling soap opera. The many, at least aesthetically pleasing flight scenes are staged with no sense of suspense and stringency. So the drama drags uneventful until the tragic finale, the audience should really pack an emotional, but it can be rather cold. In addition to the deficiencies in the figure drawing and plot construction, there are scenic stay little. The era of the 20s and 30s is reconstructed accurately, the elaborate costumes are consistent and the imagery is mostly pleasant factly. Gabriel Yared sentimental score recalls, however, in some passages of his Oscar-winning work for The English Patient. Amelia Earhart services for the aviation and the women in the U.S. are still remembered. Therefore, it is even more regrettable that it Mira Nair and Hilary Swank in Amelia has not been able to turn it into a gripping film portrait. Perhaps one would have to pay Amelia youth and their struggles with adventurous prejudices more attention. Thus, the superficial biopic a missed opportunity. (Florian Koch)
Title: Amelia Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 120 (min) Distribution: (# ) Twentieth Century Fox format: o.Al.
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Carlos
Carlos – The Jackal
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
Terrorism, 1970, Cannes, 2010, Munich Film Festival in 2010, Carlos, OPEC
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez is his name, but the world knows him as Carlos. In 1975, he is responsible for the attack on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, in the years that it acts as a cold-blooded murderer and efficient managers of organized violence – and makes the terrorist to the business. He becomes the most wanted terrorist in the world, but there are hardly any photos of him. On the search posters, he is the man with the sunglasses. Repeatedly submerging it manages to be squandered in Swiss banks amassed assets in luxury hotels, makes women subservient and uses them for his purposes, and can play its contacts with the secret services in the East and West. Over the years, left him but his good sense and his energy – and, ultimately, his loyal partners and supporters, who want to get rid of him now as unremarkable blood-soaked relic of the Cold War. Title: Carlos – The Jackal Original Title: Carlos Country of production: , Germany, France Year of Production: 2010 Length: ( #) 330 (min) Distribution: NFP marketing & distribution
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Séraphine (DVD)
Jun 10, 2010 Biography, Drama, Movie Trailers
Séraphine (DVD)
Genre: Drama, Biography
Painter, France, First World War
She is one of the most important representatives of Naive Art in France of the early 20th century and still largely unknown. Now, Martin Provost adopted in this biopic of painter Séraphine Louis. For her convincing acting performance was the lead actress Yolande Moreau already several awards later, the introverted and the madness decaying painter intense and touching and are thus probably found the role of her life. Séraphine (Yolande Moreau) is always energetic step from one job to another, from one place to another. While for well-heeled people to run the household and scrub their laundry on the river bank, no time for a private life. This fate shared by them at the end of the 19th Century, hundreds of thousands, and yet Séraphine the exception to the rule. For, despite a lack of education and understanding of art it lives in a passion that is unusual in that social class: During the nights she paints from an inner compulsion image to image, without ever at an exhibition or even thinks of sales. She paints out of a pure in itself, and if not would happen to the art expert Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) became aware of her paintings, it would probably never have made their images to the public. Uhde wants to escape the hectic life in Paris and settles down in the sleepy town of Senlis in 1912, where he is assigned as a housekeeper Séraphine. Timid develops between the two very dissimilar people a connection that is transformed by the images of Séraphine to a long friendship. Due to the war must Uhde, a German and Jew, is to leave France, but the unruly and unusual artist did not go out of my head. Years later, he is their patron, establishing them in the cultural circles and thus allows her a respectable life, evolution, and they do not deal with it. And as so often are genius and madness only a whisker apart, and Séraphine spends her last years in a mental hospital, which she obtained a striking agreement with the painter and sculptor Camille Claudel. Only three years after her death, she receives through the use of Uhde her first solo exhibition and with posthumous fame. Yolande Moreau succeeds masterfully to portray both the rugged character of Séraphine and their childlike joy that she has, for example in nature. Even more impressive, however, are the moments when Séraphine in the nighttime hours paint their pictures almost in a trance caused the masterpieces of naive painting, which are increasingly gloomy, parallel to the pathological-psychological development of the artist. The Belgian Moreau himself seems to be mad, if she draws look with fanatical and obsessive brushstroke their paintings when they anmischt their self-created maps and colors on their canvases become more and more religiously influenced fantasies. This obsession leads to them finally inescapable in a parallel world, and eventually draws in the final Séraphine barefoot in a white wedding dress through the streets of Senlis, confused palaver over and distributing relics until it is taken up by the police and taken to the mental hospital. These scenes are emotionally very touching and moving and also mirror the loneliness, in which was the misunderstood artist, against impressive, without taking into Moreau reaches into the deep feeling chest. They convinced more by subtle than eccentric drama, and has obviously found in Louis Séraphine the role of her life. Ulrich Tukur as a sensitive and discreet art dealer Wilhelm Uhde, who lives out his homosexuality subtle, is doing its part in making this biopic is an unforgettable film event, and rightly been awarded with seven Cesar. The amazing thing is that you do not necessarily art lovers must be to succumb to the undertow of the movie! (Silvy Pommerenke)
Title: Séraphine (DVD) Country of production: France, Belgium Production year: 2008 Length: 125 (Min.) (# ) Published at: Arsenal Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French EAN: 4047179496384 Tools : Behind the Scenes, Trailer
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