The room in the Mirror (DVD)
Jun 18, 2010 Fantasy, Movie Trailers
The room in the Mirror (DVD)
Genre: Fantasy, Melodrama
Holocaust, Nazism, Jewish woman, hiding
How does it feel when you have to hide for months in a room? The one really knows until one has experienced it. Or you go to the cinema: director Rudi Gaul has dared the experiment to explore the fears, fantasies, and their perception of an incarcerated. The result is a radically subjective, impressive in its visual language film. To understand the special concerns of the young filmmaker, one needs to compare his work with other films on the same subject. Most is in fact the self-hiding Must-described from the outside, so to speak, from the air. Some in Ulla Wagner’s The Invention of Curried Sausage. We see here the deserter, as he passes the time, we see his suffering, his longing, his varying moods. But we see with our eyes on him and his world. In The Room in the mirror we see the environment only with the eyes of the protagonist. We know no more external position, from which we distinguish our point of view of the eye color of the incarcerated. The room is a priori a subjective reality. We see it only as it experiences the film character. The mean Luisa (Kirstin Fischer) and is a Jewish doctor in Nazi times. In order to hide from the Gestapo, her husband Karl has placed them in an empty, pretty run-down attic. In the beginning, Karl comes fairly regularly to them with food, books and sometimes even to provide them with a little luxury. Suddenly Charles visits remain off. It goes by a tormenting time to take the upper hand in Luisa’s fear threatens to losing control over their emotions more and more. , Then eventually turns the sophisticated, glamorous Judith (Eva Wittenzellner) on. And the latest from that date remains open whether Luisa, what happens now, actually experienced or only in the imagination. Actually, this question is irrelevant. We see on the screen, only that which perceives Luisa subjective in their oscillation between escapism and reality drive. Director Rudi Gaul leads us gently approached this blurring, as it were enshrined there in real demonstrable experience. Is not it really the case that we have a knock on the door can not assign one hundred percent if we knock against this fear of death? And we can not actually detract from a novel, a terrible reality, so we sometimes dive into another world? Luisa least experienced with the arrival of more beautiful things Judith – confusing sensual, erotic, attractive and generous enriching experiences. This is Rudi Gaul on the image plane occasion of his admiration for David Lynch to indulge, as he had previously cited elements of expressionistic silent movies and the fantastic film. From this he forms his own handwriting, and a visual language beyond narrative or logical structures. The audience of a self-embedding requires the peculiarities of the dream, the power of the subconscious with his jumps, contradictions and inconsistencies. But those who from the outset in this different “logic” cease and bring plenty of leisure, is to be carried by the power of images. And it might appreciate in a special way that Rudi Gaul, his team and his producers brought this visual debauchery with only 50,000 euros to the canvas. The career changer (vintage 1982) and his friends have all funded with private money and sponsors. also managed from this point: Experiment. (Peter Gutting)
Title: The room in the Mirror (DVD) Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2008 Length: 108 (Min.) ( #) Published at: Ascot Elite Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German EAN: 4048317358977 Extras: Trailer, Making Of, 10 questions
A Serious Man (DVD)
Jun 18, 2010 Comedy, Movie Trailers
A Serious Man (DVD)
Genre: Comedy
Marital crisis, professor, plastic surgery, 1960s, Rabbi, extortion
In its latest strip Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers, a dubious CD-Rom used to branching story to get started. In its latest joint work A Serious Man, it is a Walkman confiscated, at least raises the voltage of the subplot. The story is set in an American suburb in the late sixties, is just as anonymous as the cast of this high-profile ensemble, which the Coens have masterfully in control. Just as the idiosyncratic view of history, is especially a pleasure when exposed analogies and contrasts the loose Done right from the start frame to poetic. How good that the 13 year old Danny Gopnik (Aaron Wolff) thanks to his walkman the corrosive Hebrew lessons with “Somebody to love” can secretly behind his open book drown. Until the orthodox teacher caught him here, and the high-tech device uses it, the camera remains funny in revealing the perspective of dudelnden from the ear music. Then, a meaningful key cut following the ear of the hypochondriacal, depressed father Larry (Michael Stuhlbarg). The doctor may, in its shell but found nothing and dismiss the professor back in his university life and the desperate life crisis. After a grueling seminar is a little later, the Korean Student Clive (David Kang) in his office. He asks Larry for a better grade, so he keeps his scholarship and not fall through. But Larry, who is on the verge of his tenure is not one on the wish of this oddity. “Actions always have consequences,” replied Larry the depressed student, almost sober and philosophical. “Yes, sir … most” Clive replied dryly, leaving an unnoticed envelope with money on his desk before he leaves the room and you do not know if he now runs amok or just taking life. Larry is a loss. And then he is in a painfully long interview with the head of the faculty indicated discreetly, he should not worry because of the tenure. No, not really. Or is it? After his heinous and homeless brother, an unrecognized genius, has now taken root on the couch for hours, empties the sebaceous cysts and Larry’s devious daughter so blocked the bathroom, Larry slowly loses the final nerves. And then also extends his bad-tempered wife, Judith (Sari Lennicke) a divorce, to elope with her new lover, the Wichtigteuer and pest Sy. Judith does Larry still seriously the proposal to move into the local motel “Jolly Roger”. Larry is at the end. The only bright spot furtive glances from the roof to stay in the adjoining garden, where the fries are permissive neighbor in the sun. His son Danny meanwhile, breaks open with its orthodox teachers to the revenue obtained Walkman back. All these actions have any further consequences delicious. Mostly. And, although most of this reach because of their unpredictability daredevil unbelievably funny: When anonymous letters denunciatory the university management, the desired transfer seems to tilt. Everything points to the Koreans. The visit to the rabbi, from which Larry himself had hoped for salvation turns out to be a flop, because this will – despite apparent inaction represented – by an incompetent junior rabbi. The now switched divorce lawyer costs a fortune, a car accident caused by him stemmed Larry to other vast sums and the new husband of his ex-wife, the cost of living, the funeral expenses he intended to take over yet. And in this already horrible existence Larry dreams into nightmares further that blend beautifully with what’s happening, because they appear merely as a digression within an already bitter dream. A Serious Man is created in addition to this search for meaning and a normal life of a people which came at the same time telling a graceful study of the absurdity of Judaism, not to annoy, without ostensibly to make fun of. On the contrary, one could say: The film takes its characters and its extremely seriously, so that one is inclined quickly, even outside of fiction quite natural to start from the (real) existence of these figures. An excellent character witness for credibility, but is based also on the faces and all, are rather unknown. The constantly create significant persistence of narrative, the style will consistently held out, the sometimes mischievous tone and leave unforgettable moments of reflection and the humor that you might see in a form so pure and brilliant, unfortunately, rare. The Coen’s latest coup is a real hit – I’m serious. (Malte Can)
Title: A Serious Man (DVD) Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 98 (Min.) (# ) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 886 974 461 593 Tools : , featurettes, trailers and TV spots (dt & engl.), interviews, B-Roll, Making Of
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The chess player (DVD)
Jun 17, 2010 Drama, Literature, Movie Trailers
The chess player (DVD)
Genre: Drama
Village, hotel, chess, chess tournament, maid
Chess is something for men. It was thought. But ever since this film is likely the game will at Queen and King in a new light. Caroline Bottaro draws in its lovely feature film debut, the chess player a vibrant sensual image of the female desire for a good game. Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) is working as a maid in a hotel in Corsica on the side as a cleaning lady at Dr. Kroger (Kevin Kline). Your life does not allow for large jumps. But the resting in itself, a brittle woman radiating satisfaction is lacking in anything really. That changes when she observed one day a couple playing chess. The scene is burning in their hearts so that from now on no more remains, as it was. Because her husband finds no pleasure in the endless variations on the 64 fields, Hélène persuaded the sullen Kroger to teach her the basics and tricks. However, it is no ordinary game, which gives the unknown couple on the balcony of the hotel room. The two seem to wrest the game much more than a few strained thoughts. What Hélène sees there, looks like an erotic act – so relish the attention, so seductive movements, so casually drop the negligee, whose support the woman always does. And Hélène is in the room, looking through the curtains onto the balcony, like a voyeur to something just as enticing as the forbidden. The chess player / joueuse based on the novel by Bertina Henrichs. But if you do not know, one would not expect it. For the director does not provide literature, but works with genuinely cinematic means. All the hopes and doubts, all the emerging aspirations of the main character is told through gestures and glances, through a tender light and sun-drenched colors. They wrap Hélène suddenly opening possession in an erotic haze. It had to do not actually have a taboo, which the protagonist ventures there: to discover a talent in itself, which changed her life completely. The wife and mother, who was only there for others, now claimed an area of their life on their own. It is as if the true core of her personality been kissed from a long sleep. One of the great strengths of the film that Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire invest their game so diverse. The sets with and against each other at the chessboard train to train personal change in course as they would have credited any of the figures. Kevin Kline – with a gray beard, barely recognizable – is of the arrogant people who hate the charming mentor. And Sandrine Bonnaire manage to keep their Hélène in a credible balance between the call of the new and the retention of what was good. Thus, from the erotic chess padded no banal love triangle, but an affinity that knows its limits. It is a consciously female perspective, from the director Caroline Bottaro designs the scenes at the chessboard. Of competition, determination, or can you lose is not over long distances to feel anything. Only at the very end break with elements that could have been suspected in a man from the beginning. Since being bluffed and gerangelt, as do the psychological tricks her rampant mischief. But at this point Hélène plays so confidently that they can be explained by anything or anyone distract from a deep conviction: “The lady is the most powerful piece in chess.” (Peter Gutting)
Title: The chess player (DVD) Original Title: joueuse Country of production: , Germany, France Year of Production: 2009 Length: 97 (Min.) Published at: Concorde Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French (# ) EAN: 4009750206805 Extras: Making Of, Trailer
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
New York, I Love You (DVD)
Jun 15, 2010 Movie Trailers
New York, I Love You (DVD)
Genre: Episode Film
New York
There are recipes that are so simple and so plausible that it must be realized easily. For example, even this one, now the thread from Paris, je t’aime, and transatlantic picks up in the Big Apple weiterspinnt. Other parts of the project, which was established under the label of “Cities of Love” are currently being planned, next to follow Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Venice and Timbuktu. In Berlin, ick love you, “we of course have to wait a little while. , Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner and Randall Balsmeyer called the directors who, together with Marina Emmanuel Benbihy Grasic this time has gathered behind the camera. Even the cast is impressive: Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Natalie Portman, Irrfan Khan, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, James Caan, Olivia Thirlby, Bradley Cooper, Drea De Matteo, Julie Christie , John Hurt, Shia LaBeouf, Ugur Yücel, Shu Qi, Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn, Eli Wallach, Cloris Leachman, and many more work in the twelve stories of love in the most exciting cities with the world. Although the filmmakers were free to choose their subjects, there were strict rules to comply, which was to preserve the balance between the individual stories and also to ensure that the end result did not go out of control. It was necessary each of the stories to be linked, each story should be something to do with love with a New York City and have every story should result in a roughly eight-minute episode. In addition to these basic requirements, there were other restrictions on the production. Each of the directors so had exactly two days to put his story with some of his actors and camera people. Then each of the filmmakers up to seven days in the editing room with an editor’s choice were granted, while at the same time the next team has already shot a new episode. And finally, all directors were within their time window with the same costume, scene, and farmers working the identical rest of the team. Unlike with such a rigorous production schedule such a film would have been hardly feasible. The greatest strength of bus projects such as this is also almost always their most obvious weakness: the variety of the different contributions of different directors will almost inevitably to the heterogeneity of the thread will be using a frame story made only with difficulty be. This impression is reinforced by the innovation that the individual episodes are not durcherzählt from beginning to end, but sometimes jumped between the individual segments. The overall result is usually mixed and has a significant quality gap. Also in this regard is New York, I Love You is no exception. To the successful episodes include Brett Ratner’s episode in Central Park, is sacked in the course of a teenager (Anton Yelchin), just before the final ball of his heartless friend. Thank goodness knows the pharmacist Riccoli Frank (James Caan) Council and presented to the unfortunate young man his own daughter (Olivia Thirlby) as a replacement. However, sitting in a wheelchair. Fantastic also Joshua Marston (Maria Full of grace) miniature of an old couple (Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman), the quarrels of the Brighton Beach boardwalk, the scraps that fly – and yet can not live without each other. Yvan Attal is also remarkable episode to a charming Ripper (Ethan Hawke), the ausbeißt on a strange beauty (Maggie Q) teeth. Unfortunately, not all stories are so successful is how these three, but we entertain pleasant also because of the brevity of the contributions. Even if some of the stories may not be as funny and surprising as Paris, je t’aime appears, the movie at least formally considered harmonious, the differences are in style and production not so much weight affects the whole is more of a piece. This is mainly due to the increasing nesting and interlocking of the individual episodes, the stories of different people can meet, then to switch from one narrative to the next. Although known such associative connections by other episode films like Short Cuts, compared to Paris, je t’aime, but this represents an innovation, and could well establish itself in the following works of “Cities of Love” series as a standard. The flow of the narrative and compelling nature of the film, this does not detract in any case – to the contrary. Total affects New York, I Love You more dynamic, modern and urban than its predecessor. If it was going to succeed or to refine the selection of stories, this format could reap even greater for some. The potential is certainly there. And the way apparently not over yet … (Paul Collmar)
Title: New York, I Love You (DVD) Country of production: France, USA Year of Production: 2008 Length: 99 ( min) Published at: Concorde Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS, German, English EAN: ( #) 4010324027849 Extras: Two additional episodes: “These Vagabond Shoes” Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director with Kevin Bacon in the starring role, “Apocrypha”: From director Andrey Zvyagintsev Others Carla Gugino, Trailer
Secret Sunshine (DVD)
Jun 14, 2010 Drama, Movie Trailers
Secret Sunshine (DVD)
Genre: Drama
Death, loss, grief
Mourning – that is a word that is easily dahergesagt. What is the real pain of the death of a loved one means that we suppress in the cinema only too happy. The South Korean director Lee Chang-dong has now taken on the topic in a remarkable way: precisely and consistently to the pain threshold. His lead actress was awarded in Cannes in 2007 to right the award for best female role. Can there be a comfort when the husband is killed in a car accident? Sustains life new meaning, if the wife moves into the home of the dead in order to realize his dream? These are questions to which there is basically no answer: because they only reflect the helplessness of those who are confronted with the mourners. As in life, react in this film the people upset at the woman who must cope with a loss that is not really cope. False sympathy, good advice, religious activities – so far, so klischeemäßig. Only one there who can endure the pain of others. One who is just there when it is needed. With him, we are drawn into a process of surprising, is so very different from the idea of the days of weeping, which will eventually wash away the pain already. Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) is a young woman who moves with her six year old son Jun from Seoul to the town of Miryang. There, like the piano teacher to start after the death of her husband a new life. This works in the first half hour of the movie surprisingly well. Shin-ae seems to have found its fulfillment by a true desire of her husband makes. He had always talked about how much he wants to return to his hometown. Although the young woman smiled at by the old residents, envied and coated with suspicion. But the amazing momentum with regard to the mourners their task seems nothing can harm. Until one day she is kidnapped and murdered little boy. Now the outer journey to a final power trip into the interior of the pain. Secret Sunshine begins with the arrival in the city Miryang, more precisely with a car break down just before the finish. A gleaming, unusually cold light hangs from the outset of the landscape, as menacing as disastrous. The name of the city, knows the strange woman better than the local bachelor Jong-chan (Song Kang-Ho), in Chinese means something like “hidden sun”. According alienated often do the colors and the light: a bright blue as the sun radiates with power, but somehow indirect, hidden under a very light high cloud cover. Really sunny, it is oddly enough, especially in the worst moments of the story: if the woman delivers the ransom money or if the boy is found dead from a reservoir. , It ultimately remains unclear to right, where the sun hides, after which the mourners 142 minutes long searches. Actually, they could find a support in the easy, boyish Jong-chan, who accompanied her on touching persistent way. But it is necessarily just the state of grief, that one could not help that one, gets to be taken. Which inevitably means the process also takes that shows this quiet film with impressive patience, although he would have done a pretty good lift. Especially in the self-destructive phase of the main character, in which it is approaching the pain threshold, sometimes more than one. (Peter Gutting)
Title: Secret Sunshine (DVD) Original Title: Miryang Country of production: South Korea Year of Production: 2007 Length: (# ) 142 (Min.) Published at: Rapid Eye Movies format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, Korean EAN: ( #) 4260017063078 Extras: Trailer, Making Of, 16-page booklet
The Little Soldier
Jun 10, 2010 Drama, Movie Trailers
The Little Soldier
Genre: Drama
Torture, Photographer, Algeria, deserter, secret agent, Geneva, Algerian War
When French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for his second feature film needed a lead actress, he gave to a newspaper advertisement in which he sought an actress – and a girlfriend. The role went to the young mannequin Anna Karina, who was already acquainted with the director. During the filming of The Little Soldier in 1960, the two really a couple, the married soon after, and the intense black and white images of this film is to be considered clearly felt the admiration Jean-Luc Godard for his future muse, whose melancholy face quite vividly the melancholy mood stresses. In Algeria during the late 1950s, the brutal war for independence from French colonial power rages, is full of secret agents in Geneva, Switzerland opposite orientation, unsubscribe here this violent conflict among themselves. Among them is the French photographer Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), who deserted from Algeria, the tired and secretly long grueling fighting plans to break away to Brazil. When Bruno the Russian model Veronica Dreyer (Anna Karina met) and falls in love despite much bet with a friend in the attractive and lost immensely looking young woman, he is currently in a very precarious situation. For his allies, the spy with the French request, as proof of his loyalty that he murdered a radio announcer, who supported the Algerian Liberation Front. When Bruno is vigorously denied, he gets himself in the firing line, and Veronica, who works for the enemy agent is not spared … A collage of different set pieces just appear this early work by Jean-Luc Godard, which presents staged as a highly political and as carefully as detailed. The war in Algeria shows here in the distant Geneva omnipresent: as newspaper reports on the radio, in attacks, threatening to howling sirens and idealistic slogans and philosophies. The Nouvelle Vague director has installed an illustrious treasure of quotations, which is also reflected in poems and book titles from Lenin and Mao Zedong. Even the cinematographer Raoul Coutard is honored by referring to his “law of maximum mess. On the other hand, the little soldier again shows a love story, the act allows his protagonists with mild to coarse cynicism and rarely exercise real close. The central themes of war, torture and even love entemotionalisiert seem odd, which ultimately culminates in the laconic end. “Actors are ass-licker, I despise them,” puts screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard’s tough heroes in the mouth, as well as the often-quoted remark about pictures and movies, reflecting his own view of those times: “Photography, that’s the truth , and the cinema is truth 24 times a second. ” It’s often the big words that dominate the intellectual climate of the dramaturgy, with an almost tangible, ambivalent pathos of distance and denial. In the French cinema in the early 1960s, the Algerian war was simply not available and the little soldier fell initially to censorship by the Government to the victims and did not come until 1963 in the cinemas after the year before the independence of Algeria was recognized. The political sensitivity of this drama, including on the specific issue out, is still clearly visible. When the exhausted Bruno, the monologue throughout the film as narrator off camera ever grumble about torture, which he himself suffers the misery of the human creature reveals delivered with unbridled power that reverberates for a long time. (Mary Anderson)
Title: The Little Soldier Original Title: Le petit soldat Country of production: France Production year: 1960 Length: (# ) 84 (Min.) Published at: format: 4:3 tone / language: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, German, French EAN: 4006680055220 Extras: introduction of Colin MacCabe, photo gallery, trailers, movie posters
Evet, ich will! (DVD)
Jun 10, 2010 Comedy, Movie Trailers, Romance
Evet, ich will! (DVD)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Wedding, bride, Berlin, groom, high-rise
How well that man has drawers, in which he can insert another. Of drawers, that is prejudice, it booms with this damn funny and above all, extremely politically incorrect debut film by Sinan batteries. The great thing is it allowed to laugh without having to have a guilty conscience needs! Four couples who can not be unequal, and all but the only one want: marriage! While the German student Dirk (Oliver Korittke) his Turkish fellow student Özlem (Lale Yavas) marriage will – the condition for the mean but the loss of his foreskin and the conversion to the Muslim faith – makes the Kurdish radio host Coskun (Tim Seyfi) of his colleague Günay ( Idil Uner) a request. His problem is that their father wants to have no case, a Kurd as a son. While here already gerangelt, shouted and quarreled is, it looks for the car mechanic Emrah (Eralp Uzun) from almost worse, for his supposedly best friend Tim (Mickey Hardt) is more than that, namely, his life companion, from whom he has also received a request. But Emrah leads a double life and it almost comes to a wedding with one of his parents elect. Which in turn secretly a relationship with an African-American, of course, the parents must be told. Since the problems of Salih (Mürtüz Yolcu) are almost trivial, for it looks just a beautiful woman to marry, so he gets a residence permit. But since he does not just look like an Adonis, the task is more difficult than expected, because Sülbiye (Hülya Duyar), only serious candidate meets, so not to his taste. However, based on reciprocity, for forging the dreamy tax specialist assistant other plans … Evet, I will! is a dance around the most beautiful thing in the world (no, not football but love!), in which not a dry eye, is omitted, a political faux pas, not a stereotype is used thousands of times. Sinan Akkus thus has the acid test of his feature film debut, more than one existed, because in addition to entertaining entertainment and great humor, he offers a great space to reduce existing prejudices and to address simmering conflicts. Maybe he cares even more for this comedy with thoughtfulness, as if he had made a difficult film to digest concern. Above all, it was his aim to show that marriage among Turks, although the topic in the ranking list at the top is, however, that it involves, above all, a generation gap. For the older people always want a say a word in mate choice, much to the chagrin of the young. That sometimes can lead to evil conflicts, batteries, displays with a wink. That should be the ultimate cause of the marriage willing to show his protagonist. A look at the supporting cast is worthwhile, because once flutters, film critic and radio-a-host “Kino King Knut (Knut Elstermann) through the picture and the former Linde streets Starring Cetin Ipekkaya taught as a grandfather between the warring families. The only disturbing is the somewhat over-representation of liberal eco-parents of Dirk (Heinrich Schafmeister and Ingeborg Westphal), which staged the comedy takes a little out of hand. And that plays Oliver Korittke with OB-40 students one seems not very credible. But there is something like the second chance … Despite these weaknesses, a marginal part wonderfully light, fast-paced and above all, amusing film, which mediates between the sexes and cultures. Or how the director said, a “culture clash comedy Wedding”! (Silvy Pommerenke)
Title: Evet, I will! (DVD) Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2008 Length: 90 (Min.) Published at: SAD Home Video format: 16:9 tone / language: , DTS 5.1, German, Turkish EAN: 4260214040117 Extras: Audio commentary, Making Of, Trailer, Photo Gallery
Rango
Jun 10, 2010 Animation, Movie Trailers
Rango
Genre: Animated
Chameleon identity crisis
Since last year, Gore Verbinski, director works of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, in an animated film called “Rango,” which also involved again Johnny Depp. Apparently this film is about a chameleon who suffers from an identity crisis and experienced on the road to self many adventures. Now the first äääh something strange teaser has been released for the film, which also is not particularly illuminating. It will be great … Paramount movie in March of next year will bring in the German cinemas. Title: Rango Country of production: USA Production year: 2011 Distribution: Paramount Pictures Australia
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