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West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (2011)
Well spend 90 minutes if you like to see Canadian Art
Excellent biography of Thomson who's work does look a lot like Van Gogh's but then with Canadian landscapes. Splendid cinematography and pleasant narration and comments from art historians and other. Well spend 90 minutes! Excellent biography of Thomson who's work does look a lot like Van Gogh's but then with Canadian landscapes. Splendid cinematography and pleasant narration and comments from art historians and other. Well spend 90 minutes! Excellent biography of Thomson who's work does look a lot like Van Gogh's but then with Canadian landscapes. Splendid cinematography and pleasant narration and comments from art historians and other.
La clave (2008)
Boring repetitive copy of Buena Vista Social Club
La Clave or The Key is a hopeless documentary that tries to copy the successful work in 'Buena Vista Social Club.' The result does not come even close, other then in the opening credits and the journey back to Africa, the roots of the Salsa and Reggaeton music. In opening, the Camera work is very shaky and does not get much better along the way. The many interviews are constantly cut, to see the same person a little later again, loosing its continuity and making reading the subtitles completely impossible. Never is a song or piece of music played full length and still the movie is 80 minutes long which could have been done in 30 because of its endless repetitiveness. I guess because of the large population of Puerto Ricans living in New York and Los Angeles, the movie got some awards, but here at the 8th. Todos Santos Latino Film Fest it did not score very high. something different from another, because they kept saying the same thing over and over, making this film a true bore just like my review.
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Another amazing story from John Irvin put on the big screen
With a cast of great characters in a wonderful setting, this movie is a pleasant flick to watch a complex family drama without direct violence or murder plots.
It's a believable story that makes you think twice before you fell an opinion on peoples behavior.
The affair with the teenage boy is too predictable, but hey, a lot of things happen that are predictable in life. Action / reaction.Kim Basinger is still wonderful after all these years.
There are a few silly things in there such as Ted Cole's hat and the chase by a disgruntled model. The very end is funny despite the drama that has just being revealed.
La marche de l'empereur (2005)
Must see for nature lovers or anybody who wonders about life
A beautiful movie, comparable with 'Winged Migration", another French production that is a delight to watch.
The mannerism of the penguins is intriguing. It is hard to believe that a species exists under such dare circumstances. That they can wink an eyelid in sixty degrees below and just stand there for months doing not much else than rotating from the outside to the inside of the group to find protection against the harsh climate.
When in a long line-up, they look like monks of some sort in a medieval scene. Their walking, falling, and standing up, is much like humans and very funny to watch.
Until the end, when running the credits you have no idea as how big (or small) these penguins are. A bit long, too 'Disney" like and too predictable narration. But the look into the wonderful life of these penguins is astonishing.
Chocolat (2000)
Nice movie that could also relate to coffee or marijuana
Is the colorful movie in which the charming Juliet Binoche plays a lovely roll as Vianne, a single mother who came out of nowhere with a cute little daughter to set up shop in a 1950ies village in central France. You don't know if this is going to be comical, which you would expect when you see all the devoted silly faces in Sunday church, or if it is a documentary about cocoa since the narrator takes you to South America where Vianne's father apparently got sexually stimulated after drinking hot chocolate. Or did he just got excited by the hot Amazonian girls by the campfire? Anyway, in the end it is just going to be a fairytale with a grouchy grandmother played by Judi Dench, that despite her grade one diabetes indulges herself in chocolate. A village Mayor (Alferd Molina) who is estranged from his wife for over six months and thinks that chocolate is going to give him the desired satisfaction he lacks since. He looks more like a Mr. Cluso when he rolls in to the Chocolatery and gives a boring performance of how not to eat truffles. What is the conspiracy behind here? Tobacco companies cannot buy into the movie scene anymore and now we are looking at Cadbury's or Droste to sell us more than chocolate actually can deliver? In the old days, mankind might have given chocolate some hallucinogenic powers and it does enhances mood in some people and for that matter it took time to get accepted. Similarly today with hemp, all sort of powers and qualities are given to the weed and in 5 or 10 years people will laugh as to how innocent hemp really is and accepted like Chocolat.