Ό,τι μας άρεσε, μας γοήτευσε, μας συγκλόνισε, μας συγκίνησε αλλά και μας κάνει να χαμογελάμε !
Τετάρτη 28 Νοεμβρίου 2012
My last film . . .
Πώς φαντάζεσαι το τέλος του κόσμου ;
Perfect Sense (2011)
Formerly known as The Last Word, is a 2011 drama film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Kim Fupz Aakeson, starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor. Scenes were shot in various locations around Glasgow. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Synopsis
A story about two people—a chef and an epidemiologist—who fall in love just as an epidemic begins to rob the world's population of their sensory perceptions.
The epidemic causes humans to lose their senses. First, they start
crying for no reason. After drying up their tears, they notice they have
lost their ability to smell. This is followed by the loss of taste and
hearing and finally eye sight. The epidemic is not given a major part in
the movie. Instead, the movie focuses on the two lovers and the rest of
the people dealing with the situation. For example, Michael, being a
chef, has to go on cooking for the people who can neither smell nor
taste.
Πολιτική αλληγορία για τονΙσπανικό Εμφύλιο ή αλλιώς πώς είναι όταν δε φοβάσαι να ξύνεις τις πληγές μέχρι να ματώσουν . . εξάλλου, η ζωή είναι ένα τσίρκο, έτσι δεν είναι ; Διάλεξε τον κλόουν που δείχνεις γύρω σου. Εσύ ποιός κλόουν είσαι ; ο χαρούμενος ή κλαψιάρης ;
Balada triste de trompeta (2010)
The Last Circus (Spanish: Balada triste de trompeta; "Sad Trumpet Ballad") is a 2010 Spanish film by director Álex de la Iglesia.It premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.
Plot
In 1937, Republican Militia led by General Líster force a circus troupe to fight on their side in the Spanish Civil War.
The Funny Clown (Santiago Segura) slaughters dozens of Loyalist troops,
armed only with a machete, before being shot and disarmed. While his
fellow troupe members are executed, the Funny Clown is sentenced to work
as a slave laborer, at the monument of the Valle de los Caídos.
His son, Javier (Sasha Di Bendetto) tries to free him by setting off
dynamite where he was working. But Colonel Salcedo (Sancho Gracia)
tramples the Funny Clown to death with his horse. Javier knocks him
down, gouging out his eye in the process. Salcedo vows to remember
Javier for this insult.
In 1973, Javier (Carlos Areces) joins a circus as its sad clown, as
he has never been able to make children laugh. His counterpart as funny
clown is Sergio (Antonio de la Torre Martin), an arrogant, crude,
violent man who admits that were he not a clown, he would probably be a
murderer. Javier begins to fall in love with Sergio's girlfriend, the
trapeze artist Natalia (Carolina Bang). After Sergio becomes enraged
when Javier refuses to laugh at his jokes at dinner one night, Sergio
beats Natalia unconscious then storms out. Javier encourages Natalia to
leave Sergio, but when Sergio returns she engages in rough anal sex
against a window while Javier cowers below. She later tells Javier that
she is sexually and emotionally attracted to Sergio's violent nature.
Sergio admits that Javier is an excellent sad clown but grows
suspicious about his attention to Natalia. In fact, Natalia has
encouraged Javier to develop feelings for her, as she was impressed by
his refusal to laugh when Sergio told him to. They begin to see one
another behind Sergio's back. One night, at an amusement park, Natalia
admits she has begun to love Javier as well and kisses him tenderly.
Sergio suddenly appears and beats them both savagely; Javier's wounds
land him in the hospital. Natalia tells Javier they must never see one
another again for his sake. After having a dream in which Sergio foils
his repeated attempts to rescue Natalia from various situations, Javier
escapes from the hospital and returns to the circus. Despite the efforts
of the other troupe members to stop him, Javier finds Sergio and
Natalia having sex. Now insane, Javier beats Sergio mercilessly in the
face with a trumpet, leaving him mauled and near death. As Javier
escapes through the sewers, the circus troupe takes Sergio to the
closest doctor – a veterinarian
– for medical care. The doctor is able to save Sergio, but his face is
horribly scarred. The circus is forced to close down. Natalia and
several of the other troupe members become performers in a nightclub.
Javier lives in the forest, naked and covered in filth. He survives
on wild animals that fall into his cave. One day he is captured by
hunters – including Salcedo, who recognizes him. Salcedo forces him to
behave as a hunting dog but ultimately intends to kill him. At one point
Javier viciously bites none other than Generalissimo Francisco Franco,
one of Salcedo's guests. As a consequence he is locked in a room while
Salcedo plans exactly how to kill him. Javier has a vision of Natalia,
as the Virgin Mary, ordering him to become her Angel of Death. He scars his face with sodium hydroxide and a clothes iron to make it look permanently like that of a clown, then dons a clown's costume patterned after a bishop's vestments. He then kills Salcedo and escapes into the city.
Afraid that Sergio intends to harm her, Natalia prepares to leave the
nightclub. But Sergio and Javier both arrive at the same time, Javier
armed with machine guns. Forced to choose between them, Natalia chooses
Sergio, and they drive away together. Police try to arrest Javier, but
some of the remaining troupe members help him escape. Repulsed by
Sergio's mauled face and crude ways, Natalia leaves him again. Javier
steals an ice cream truck and stalks her through the city. He uses the
occasion of ETA's successful attempt on Admiral Carrero Blanco
(Franco's heir apparent) to kidnap Natalia. He takes her to the Valle
de los Caídos, hewn from rock, where the circus has kept its animals
since going out of business. There he pleads with her to love him for
his mind and body as much as she loved Sergio for his. At first she
refuses but admits she no longer loves Sergio.
Sergio, meanwhile, has learned of Javier's hideout. He informs the
military police, which has been looking for Javier in connection with
the terrorist bombing, and accompanies them on their attempt to arrest
him. Sergio puts on his clown make up and chases Javier and Natalia
through the Monumental Cross at the Valle de los Caídos where they climb
to its highest point, several hundred feet off the ground. Natalia
admits her love for Javier and suggests they escape by wrapping lengths
of drapery around their waists and lowering themselves to the ground.
Before this can be accomplished, Sergio arrives and fights with Javier.
Distraught over the continued violence, Natalia leaps from the ledge;
rather than getting to the ground safely, she is killed instantly when
the drapery draws taut around her waist and snaps her spine.
The military police place Sergio and Javier in custody. As they sit
opposite one another, the Funny Clown laughs bitterly and the Sad Clown
cries inconsolably.
Μία μαύρη - όχι και τόσο ποιητική - ελεγεία πέρα από ηθικολογίες και φτηνή κοινωνιολογία για την επιβίωση και την τελική επικράτηση στο κλειστοφοβικό και άγριο κόσμο της φυλακής. Μεταξύ των ορίων πραγματικότητας και μεταφυσικής, η γεωμετρητική ανάδειξη ενός ''τίποτα'' στην πρωτοκαθεδρία της εγκληματικής ελίτ . . .
Un prophète (2009)
A 2009 French prisonmelodrama, directed by Jacques Audiard from a screenplay he co-wrote with three others and starring Tahar Rahim
in the title role of a convicted Algerian immigrant, a petty criminal
who wins the respect of the prisoner boss and converts to Islam.
For Audiard, the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France,"though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a work of fiction.
In 2010, the film was a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
PLOT
Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), nineteen years old, French of Algerian descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup), who enforces a brutal rule.
The prison is divided between two main factions: the Corsicans and
the Muslims. Malik keeps to himself. When Luciani forces him to be the
unwilling assassin of Reyeb, a Muslim witness, Malik gains the
protection of the Corsicans in spite of his origin. Malik serves as a
low-level servant to the Corsicans, who treat him with disdain. All the
while, he is haunted by visions of the murdered Reyeb. When the bulk of
the Corsicans are transferred or released, Luciani is forced to give
Malik more responsibility. Having secretly learned Corsican,
Malik acts as Luciani's eyes and ears in the prison. When Malik earns
the privilege of day-long furloughs outside the prison, Luciani relies
on him to conduct his business outside.
Ryad, a Muslim friend, teaches Malik to read and write, and the two
become close. Ryad exposes Malik to his own heritage, allowing him to
meet two other Muslims, Tarik and Hassan, increasing his power within
the prison. Malik also becomes involved with a prison drug dealer,
Jordi. When Ryad gains an early release due to his testicular cancer,
the three partners organize a drug-running enterprise. But when Ryad is
kidnapped by the drug dealer Latif, Malik tracks down Latif's partner
inside the prison, kidnaps his family, and forces Latif's gang to
release Ryad.
When Luciani discovers that Malik is using his furloughs for his own
personal enterprise, he attacks him. Malik is sent to meet Brahim
Lattrache in Marseille, another Muslim, who is involved in a deal
between Luciani and the Lingherris, an Italian mafia group. Lattrache is
bitter toward the Corsicans for the murder of Reyeb and holds Malik at
gunpoint. When Malik spots a deer warning sign, he remembers a recent
dream of deer running in the road. He tells his kidnappers that they are
in danger of hitting a deer, which they promptly do. Lattrache is
impressed by Malik, calling him a prophet and agreeing to do business
with him instead of Luciani.
Luciani believes there is a mole in his organization and decides to use Malik to assassinate Jacky Marcaggi, the Don
of the Corsican mafia, for secretly dealing with the Lingherris. But
Malik and Ryad have their own plan for Marcaggi: they kill his
bodyguards and dump him in a van with his enemy Vettori, Luciani's
henchman. Malik takes refuge at Ryad's house with his wife and young
son. Ryad's cancer has returned; his decision against more chemotherapy
leaves him just six months and he gets Malik's promise to take care of
his family when he's gone.
Upon Malik's return to the prison, he joins the Muslim side of the
yard, having built a place of power within their faction. When Luciani
tries to approach him, two Muslims intercept and beat him. The day of
Malik's release he is met outside the prison by Ryad's wife and son.
They walk off together, followed by a convoy of Malik's new gangster
associates.
