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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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17 mai 2009
Looking for Eric
When the group of postie-mates, middle-aged, beer-bellied, some slow, others jokey, start with a self-help exercise for their friend, Eric Bishop (Steve Everts), we realise that not everyone needs long-term Woody Allen type therapy or psychoanalysis, but that a team of friends can do a great deal to help one another. Then, when the exercise (...) -
17 mai 2009
Tzar
In the middle of this film, some of the Tsar’s soldiers are put in an arena to fight an enormous bear. The bear is filmed towering above the men (and the audience), a spectacular, vast, powerhouse of energy with the potential to overwhelm all who stand in its way (and it does). It is an apt metaphor for this huge Russian powerhouse of a (...) -
17 mai 2009
Vengeance
Possibly the best Johnnie To crime drama. It was surprising the number of times that Shakespeare’s name came to mind while watching vengeance. Of course, so many of Shakespeare’s plays are revenge tragedies, a genre popular amongst the Elizabethan and, especially, Jacobean playwrights. But, it was not just the revenge. The audience had (...) -
16 mai 2009
Jaffa
Set in the Israeli old port of Jaffa, this is familiar material, almost soap-opera stories, dramatised in a conventional way. The family at the centre runs a prosperous garage repairing cars. The older son is arrogant and lazy. The receptionist daughter is pregnant – to the reliable mechanic who happens to be Arab. When the son is killed (...) -
16 mai 2009
Mother
When the Koreans go for broke in horror and/or absurd scenarios, they make films like Mother (and this director’s The Host). Mother, who shows she is quaintly peculiar (at least) dancing in a vast field during the opening credits, is ultra-protective of her mentally impaired son. After he is injured in a hit-run incident and, with his (...)