Les gens d’à côté
2024
Berlinale 2024
- Panorama -
A family moves in next door to policewoman Lucie. They have friendly contact until Lucie finds out that the father is an activist against police violence. Her convictions as a policewoman clash with her desire to support the family.
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A ★★★ review of My New Friends (2024)
Berlinale 2024 - Panorama - [English] A family moves in next door to policewoman Lucie. They have friendly contact until Lucie finds out that the father is an activist against police violence. Her convictions as a policewoman clash with her desire to support the family. Isabelle Huppert manages the balancing act of Lucie between her sugary-sweet laughs and the seriousness of her profession. In between, it drifts a little into French feel-good comedy, but then recovers. A few more details about the French legal system would have been interesting. Convicted activists are apparently not allowed to leave their district just
Hako Otoko
2024
Berlinale 2024
- Berlinale Special -
Avant-garde film about a man who lives in a cardboard box and also walks around in it. A doctor is fascinated by it and obsessively tries to become a "box man" too.
👉 https://boxd.it/5SqP3t
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A ★★★ review of The Box Man (2024)
Berlinale 2024 - Berlinale Special - [English] Avant-garde film about a man who lives in a cardboard box and also walks around in it. A doctor is fascinated by it and obsessively tries to become a box man too. A typically Japanese, disguised story. Is it a fantasy, an escape from reality or a personal connection? Exaggeratedly absurd chases and fights, staged drives on the edge of perversion and intense eye duels through cardboard slits. If you think you can get something out of this, you've come to the right place. ________________ [Deutsch] Avantgardistischer Film über einen Mann, der in
Treasure
2024
Berlinale 2024
- Berlinale Special Gala -
Based on a true story, this is a father-daughter trip to Poland in the early 90s.
Father Edek is a survivor of Auschwitz and has started a family in New York. Daughter Ruth comes to Poland to find out about her family history. Edek jovially takes over the trip.
👉 https://boxd.it/5RXApB
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A ★★★ review of Treasure (2024)
Berlinale 2024 - Berlinale Special Gala - [English] Based on a true story, this is a father-daughter trip to Poland in the early 90s. Father Edek is a survivor of Auschwitz and has started a family in New York. Daughter Ruth comes to Poland to find out about her family history. Edek jovially takes over the trip. The beginning is somewhat incongruous, more of a screwball comedy and the music is also very clichéd. It builds up a good dramaturgy towards the end. In my opinion, the pacing is mixed. Some parts of the movie are strong, but there are
Small Things Like These
2024
Berlinale 2024
- Wettbewerb -
Tim Mielants obviously saw the Danish film "Unruly" a. thought: I'll make an Irish version of it. Young women are locked away in a religious house / care home, where they experience forced labor and harassment and often have to abort or give up their children.
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A ★★★ review of Small Things Like These (2024)
Berlinale 2024 - Competition / Wettbewerb - [English] Tim Mielants obviously saw the Danish film Unruly and thought: I'll make an Irish version of it. Because something similar happened at the time: young women are locked away in a religious house (or care home), where they experience forced labor and harassment and often have to abort or give up their children. I obviously expected more. The acting performances of Cillian Murphy as the taciturn coal merchant and Emily Watson as the inscrutable nun are undoubtedly good. But the worn character of Bill doesn't give me much at the beginning and
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Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
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2023
A Thuringian village 1990: Everything is in upheaval after the fall of the Wall and young Maria is attracted to a lonely rough man.
A secret love affair between Trakl and rough passion begins.
👉 https://boxd.it/3Veeq3
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A ★★ review of Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)
< Berlinale Wettbewerb > (english version below) In einem thüringischen Dorf 1990: Alles ist im Umbruch nach dem Mauerfall und die 17-jährige Maria steht mehr auf Literatur, als zur Schule zu gehen, wo die meisten Lehrer schon abgehauen sind. Auf dem Nachbarhof lebt einsam ein Mann von rauem Gemüt, doppelt so alt wie Maria. Sie fühlt sich angezogen von Henners Ausstrahlung und gibt sich ihm hin. Eine heimliche Liebe zwischen Gedichten von Trakl und grober Leidenschaft beginnt. Ich möchte mit dem Positiven anfangen: Die Kammerspiel-Atmosphäre, die sich zwischen zwei Höfen im sonnendurchfluteten Sommer abspielt, ist von Atef sehr gut eingefangen. Die gedämpfte
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Suzume
2022
When schoolgirl Suzume chases a galloping child's chair and a cat, the entire hall is enraptured. She meets Souta, one who calls himself "Closer" and protects the world from harm by earthquakes. Now it is up to Suzume to get to the doors to keep the "worms" at bay.
👉 https://boxd.it/3Veblz
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A ★★★½ review of Suzume (2022)
< Berlinale Competition > When schoolgirl Suzume chases a galloping child's chair and a cat, the entire hall is enraptured. She meets Souta, one who calls himself "Closer" and protects the world from harm by earthquakes from the "Always and Forever" world. But now it is up to Suzume to get to the doors to keep the "worms" at bay. Just as "Godzilla" is often interpreted as an allegory for the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is also the processing of the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent nuclear disaster of Fukushima into a fantasy theme here. This becomes clear at
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Infinity Pool
2023.
New Cronenberg shocker - Subtext could be "Super rich on vacation - What's possible with masses of money and dubious morals?"
A mix of social criticism, dystopian sci-fi with clones, body horror and a flash of giallo splatter in a BDSM darkroom at Berghain.
👉 https://boxd.it/3TVkjb
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A ★★★½ review of Infinity Pool (2023)
< Berlinale Special > The new Cronenberg shocker from son Brandon, after his father David Cronenberg submitted last year with "Crimes of the Future". The subtext could be "Super rich on vacation - What's possible with masses of money and dubious morals?" A mix of social criticism à la "Triangle of Sadness," dystopian sci-fi with cloned humans, body horror and a flash of giallo splatter in a BDSM darkroom at Berghain. Cronenberg has a passion for close-ups of faces, body parts, food and other objects - As well as blood, urine and semen. He also seems to be fond of camera angles
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Kill Boksoon
2023
A brilliant action flick that can satisfy fans of splatter and martial arts. Perhaps the next Netflix hit? (31 March 2023)
Byun Sung-hyun has the knack of telling a dense story, combining entertaining fight scenes with spectacular camera settings and a dash of humour.
👉 https://boxd.it/3TFPXf
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A ★★★★ review of Kill Boksoon (2023)
< Berlinale Special > <German version below> A brilliant action flick that can satisfy fans of splatter and martial arts. Perhaps the next Netflix hit? (From 31 March 2023) Byun Sung-hyun has the knack of telling a dense story over two hours, combining entertaining fight scenes with spectacular camera settings and effects - and weaving in a dash of humour that doesn't come across as flat or destroy the seriousness of the confrontations. Gil Bok-soon sits at a coffee party among a group of well-heeled women whose children go to an expensive public school. What does she do, she is asked -
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