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Somewhere (2010)
A movie with no plot and no character arc
I saw it last night and I feel obliged to write this short review. Being a fan of Sofia Coppola's movies I was really angry walking out of the cinema. I want my money back. It should be called "something" because it's really only vaguely a movie. It's something, not sure what. The movie lacks charm, humor, irony, storytelling structure, emotion. Character development, actually there is no character development. Just a ridiculous ending suggesting something has changed. But it's not rewarding at all. It's like watching the paint dry. This movie is just a display of how some people can get a movie done without really putting any effort to it. It's a display of director's arrogance, it's a display of how the money and power shouldn't be used in movie making. The photography is excellent, the locations are amazing. the actors seem to be really good but this movie doesn't show a bit of their potential. All of this is coming from a big fan of Lost in Translation and I think I was one of the few people who defended Marie Antoinette.
As far as "somewhere" goes don't bother to watch the movie. Watch the trailer. That's enough. If you see the trailer it shows you the whole picture. Actually it's far more interesting than the movie.
Paper Heart (2009)
Indie mockumentary or call it what you will about a famous actor and his girlfriend falling in love why supposedly on the quest for the meaning of love, bah.
Terrible, really terrible. To avoid.
I wanted to stop there but have to put in other ten lines of text, so I will say it's a waste of time. I was actually looking forward to this, it looked promising, but it's a very shallow movie, with only one bright point which is Michael Cera, who seems genuinely nice and funny person. The rest is a really shallow. I guess he's the only reason this one got produced and even saw the Sundance festival. I gave it a shot and some of the interviews were funny and some almost touching but the whole thing was so pretentiously unpretentious pretentious and fake and unnecessarily long and "indie", that it really put me off. General advice to those who want to see it - don't bother to see it. General advice to people who shot it - I'm sorry but this isn't good filmaking.