silviopellerani
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Roberto Faenza has shot a very brave film, brave because shows an argument like this in the today's film panorama should be considered very brave. Nowadays, any film that enters into the psychoanalysis field and its world should be at least seen.
In this case, Faenza shot a non Italian film, with a multi national coproduction about a sort of small biography of Carl Jung the famous psychologist who has funded a personal current beside the one developed by Siegmund Freud. The film has some very good moments, specially when Jung is at his very beginning of his career in a house hospital in Zurich and meet Caroline Ducey as his very first patient. The developing of her illness and Jung's very modern approach compared to the rest of his colleagues in the hospital is really the best part of the film, this together with the start of their love "affair" worth the whole film. Unfortunately the rest of the film is not well driven, a sort of general and confused flashback brings the old scenes to a "today" situation through a "path" that a relative of Caroline is following in Russia with the help of some old books.
Rating: 6/10
In this case, Faenza shot a non Italian film, with a multi national coproduction about a sort of small biography of Carl Jung the famous psychologist who has funded a personal current beside the one developed by Siegmund Freud. The film has some very good moments, specially when Jung is at his very beginning of his career in a house hospital in Zurich and meet Caroline Ducey as his very first patient. The developing of her illness and Jung's very modern approach compared to the rest of his colleagues in the hospital is really the best part of the film, this together with the start of their love "affair" worth the whole film. Unfortunately the rest of the film is not well driven, a sort of general and confused flashback brings the old scenes to a "today" situation through a "path" that a relative of Caroline is following in Russia with the help of some old books.
Rating: 6/10
The promises were all pretty good, same producer as "Fucking Amal" and Together: Lukas Modysson, the one who is part of the newest Swedish generation of innovative of directors in Sweden; but I am afraid the final result was well far from the expectations...
Josef Fares is a young director from Lebanon who wanted to develop in a funny way the already too much seen cross fertilization between different religions in Western Europe, same topic of East is East or Dreaming Beckam; this time the plot is shot in a Swedish town with two main male characters whose lives are linked by a common job. One of them, acted by Fares Fares in the role of "Roro", is the typical young man who was born in Sweden, so well adapted and completely almost "swedish" but his family is still attached to their tradition and religion, so they do not accept easily a non arrange wedding. Beside this, the film develops also a normal Swedish couple which has become in crisis, and this is shown by the impotence of the guy.
There are some funny situations but the final results is poor and most of the situations are well superficial and not specifically well defined.
The results is a very commercial film, poor of content and not original at all, a positive point is that is free of violence.
Rating: 5/10
Josef Fares is a young director from Lebanon who wanted to develop in a funny way the already too much seen cross fertilization between different religions in Western Europe, same topic of East is East or Dreaming Beckam; this time the plot is shot in a Swedish town with two main male characters whose lives are linked by a common job. One of them, acted by Fares Fares in the role of "Roro", is the typical young man who was born in Sweden, so well adapted and completely almost "swedish" but his family is still attached to their tradition and religion, so they do not accept easily a non arrange wedding. Beside this, the film develops also a normal Swedish couple which has become in crisis, and this is shown by the impotence of the guy.
There are some funny situations but the final results is poor and most of the situations are well superficial and not specifically well defined.
The results is a very commercial film, poor of content and not original at all, a positive point is that is free of violence.
Rating: 5/10
Many years have passed since last time that Roman Polanski shotted a film in Eastern Europe and specifically in Poland and its Warsaw.
I remember one of his really first sixties films: A knife in the water or Repulsion where the characters were already psychologically deeply analysed with his matchlessly "Polansky's style" that later on will be spreaded to all cinema audiences with Rosemary's Baby an The Lodger.
This film welcomes him back to his land, his people, his ghetto.
It is rather difficult to express with words the bad feeling of the horror of the Holocaust got it from this masterpiece. The consequences of the Holocaust seen through a Jewish family in Warsaw obliged to move to the "Jewish ghetto" during the German occupation in Poland in the Second World War. The main character is an excellent pianist -Wladislaw- who plays for Warsaw Radio. The images in the ghetto are already seen but never were enoughly metobolized as in this film.
No "Schindler's List" nor The Holocaust -the TV serie- had such a deep impact as this one. Touchful scenes of People treated as flesh in a slaughter, senseless faces without identity and future are flashed in the screen, walking as robots or zombies. Child screams and weeping heard as backnoise that penetrates in your head as well as the bombs that are exploding outside; pricking and cruel images that will not be easily forgotten. Some scenes are particularly touchful as the one of the father that shares for the whole family in six small pieces a sugar tablet and the one where Adrien is hiding himself, seeking desperately for food and water; rarely in a film thirst and hunger were described so perfectly. Also the way how Wladislaw plays piano in front of a general nazi after longer days of fasting is supreme, initially seems to be rather static but then comes music and Wladislaw starts to dream again with it. Also the locations of a destroyed Warsaw give desolation and a strange peaceful message like peace after the battle. Superbly acted by Adrien Brody as The Pianist this is not only a must film is The film of The Holocaust.
Rating: 8/10
I remember one of his really first sixties films: A knife in the water or Repulsion where the characters were already psychologically deeply analysed with his matchlessly "Polansky's style" that later on will be spreaded to all cinema audiences with Rosemary's Baby an The Lodger.
This film welcomes him back to his land, his people, his ghetto.
It is rather difficult to express with words the bad feeling of the horror of the Holocaust got it from this masterpiece. The consequences of the Holocaust seen through a Jewish family in Warsaw obliged to move to the "Jewish ghetto" during the German occupation in Poland in the Second World War. The main character is an excellent pianist -Wladislaw- who plays for Warsaw Radio. The images in the ghetto are already seen but never were enoughly metobolized as in this film.
No "Schindler's List" nor The Holocaust -the TV serie- had such a deep impact as this one. Touchful scenes of People treated as flesh in a slaughter, senseless faces without identity and future are flashed in the screen, walking as robots or zombies. Child screams and weeping heard as backnoise that penetrates in your head as well as the bombs that are exploding outside; pricking and cruel images that will not be easily forgotten. Some scenes are particularly touchful as the one of the father that shares for the whole family in six small pieces a sugar tablet and the one where Adrien is hiding himself, seeking desperately for food and water; rarely in a film thirst and hunger were described so perfectly. Also the way how Wladislaw plays piano in front of a general nazi after longer days of fasting is supreme, initially seems to be rather static but then comes music and Wladislaw starts to dream again with it. Also the locations of a destroyed Warsaw give desolation and a strange peaceful message like peace after the battle. Superbly acted by Adrien Brody as The Pianist this is not only a must film is The film of The Holocaust.
Rating: 8/10