Posts under ‘Foreign’

Fame Chimica grips the viewer immediately by opening with an explosion. Sadly, that remains the highest point of the movie to which we return only at the end. The narrator is young Claudio, a silent man who is apparently the only responsible one of his age in the neighborhood. He has been telling himself that [...]

I could not help not watching the Polish movie Portret podwójny. There was no other movie slotted around the same time, except for the movies that contested for the International Student Film Competition. I could not watch those of course. I’m not a judge or jury; I’m just judgmental. For the first time ever, I [...]

I watched Katyn only the previous night and watching another movie about something that I had barely any knowledge about made me certain that there are never enough movies around the world wars. In that way I think 9/11 and the “War Against Terrorism” are not as diverse even though there are already 9/11 literature [...]

In Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda journalist Jack Daglish tells Paul, “I think if people see this footage they’ll say, ‘Oh my God that’s horrible!’ and then go on eating their dinners.” During the Katyn Massacre, that is what the whole world did. On the night that I watched Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn, after the movie ended [...]

Ferdinando Cefalù is a well-read graduate born in an aristocratic family and unhappily married to an annoying romantic. He would have grown accustomed to his life much like his father, being satisfied with the occasional grasp of the maid’s derriere, but he lays his eyes on young Angela. Angela is a distant cousin who is [...]