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Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément! (2015): A Wall Apart
I cannot help being disappointed, because while it does feel authentic at points, it predominantly appears trite. Maybe I should just lower my pretentious romcom bar a notch or two. Read more
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Movies of the Week #48 (2016)
Being bored on a Sunday evening such as the one unfolding right now, I decided to aim higher on the vanity punching bag and jot down some remarks about the movies I saw this week. Read more
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Nocturnal Animals (2016): The Story Within the Story
It is captivating thanks to the lead trio of Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. It works visually in spite of the occasional clichés. But it’s not an even story and the mediocre writing cannot be forgiven. Implicitly, Nocturnal Animals taints itself with the muck of pretentiousness. Read more
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Afacerea Est: That’s How It’s Done (2016)
Cobileanski manages, at times, to really capture the irony and the foolishness of life in situational humour. Luckily, I was alone in the cinema and could laugh as hard as I felt like doing. Read more
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Sour Grapes (2016): Schadenfreude
Ultimately, even for someone with no taste for wine, I was excited by the end, having sat through this very particular tasting menu of intricate lies. Read more
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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981): Pleading Death
It is only in pain and suffering that we can look into ourselves to understand how much we are willing to bear and what makes us be. Read more
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Today’s Special (2009): 1001 Recipes for Clichés
There must be stuff to like about David Kaplan’s second (and as of now last) feature length movie, yet I utterly failed to enjoy it. Sure, it digests easily, but there’s gotta be more to it than that. Read more
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Pozitia Copilului (2013): People at its Heart
What sets Netzer’s film apart from some of the other recent Romanian works of cinema is its sardonic humor which works best when it’s aimed at the characters and not at some of the pervasive practices of society. Read more
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