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Add: "Preto contra branco": https://youtu.be/r_xkDHHGWx8 "A linha imaginária": https://youtu.be/uY4CN1H7z0g To be added: Adriana Sager's doc "Central"
A smaller list about "political Westerns" can be seen here. See also the lists "The fastest gunslingers of the West", Strong women in Westerns, Black cowboys, and Best actors in Westerns.
Add: "Mario Filho, o criador das multidões": http://www.revistadocinemabrasileiro.com.br/node/1005
Reviews
Anora (2024)
The real-life "pretty woman"
A strong movie. It is about prostitution, for sure, but, more than this, it is about class, about class contrasts, and about how much the very rich people have no limits, think that they can buy or impose anything, that the world is there to serve them, and that people are disposable. Sean Baker has a very skilled direction, using well the space and a great number of actors and extras, and showing well from erotic footage into edgy situation of violence and harassment. Mikey Madison has a great performance portraying well that wide range of moods (not enough for all the awards, as brilliant Fernanda Torres was also a nominee for I'm Still Here, but she showed to be very skilled anyway). Mark Eydelshteyn and Yura Borisov also had fantastic performances in the supporting roles of Ivan and Igor. The movie has very different moments, all of them being well made and coherent as a whole story from fairytale into harsh reality. It is no Pretty Woman; it is much more serious. And better.
Secret Level: The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep (2024)
Great dystopia, the best Secret Level episode!
The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep is an awesome dystopic sci-fi animated short film! The universe, inspired in the role-playing videogame Outer Worlds, which story is held in a galaxy dominated by megacorporations, is extremely nice. The visual is also charming, ressembling a little Wall-E. There are both a funny dark humor and a deep smart political criticism. The script is great, engaging and, finally, moving. The main character is (turned into) perhaps my favourite cyborg ever! Not that it is important, but I cannot help but mention: it is weird how much Felicity Karo, another excellent character, looks like Daniel Radcliffe!
Secret Level: PAC-MAN: Circle (2024)
No Pac-Man
All previous episodes of Secret Level varied from just tepid and uninspired to actually bad and confusing. Videogame aesthetics seemed poor for animated short films, and the script was always too shallow. I suspected that perhaps they worked a little better for game addicts, as I had no involvement with any of those five games (I have been playing D&D for decades, but on table with friends, not in videogame, and it is completely different). Then, Pac-Man episode came up, and off course I love that game - just like possibly the whole humankind! I am not happy to say: that was a great disappointment. A revisionist approach is probably not the best one for a beloved classic game, but it could still work. However, it is very hard to identify the game in this short film, despite the very end. Animation is also unpleasant and has a generic style with no connection to the game. Indeed, this episode reminded me more the dire horror unofficial Z-feature movies that are being released with characters now in public domain, such as Mickey Mouse and Pooh. That is not a compliment, to be clear.
Eike, Tudo ou Nada (2022)
Soap opera
The film is not bad, but it is not good either, despite the decent performance by Nelson Freitas. It is too schematic, formulaic, often ressembling a soap opera. It concentrated in Eike Batista's rise and fall as a star businessman billionaire, chosing a strange view where he is a dreamer somewhat victim of bad advisors, false friends and corrupt politicians. The entire core story is about his business, but, as his personal life is too much infamous, due to his marriage with model and actress Luma de Oliveira, they chose a bizarre way to insert it, completely external to the entire script: as a concern in the subconscious, neither developping it properly, not merging it with the plot. The side story of the common people who believed in investing in his stocks made sense, but was too topical and obvious. As a matter of fact, one may say that the entire movie is obvious and never surprises, is always in the surface, with flat and often unconvincing characters.
Civil War (2024)
Dystopic civil war and journalism: action!
A nice movie that merges a very credible dystopic background (fascist authoritarian governenment, civil war in a scattered federation...) and a harsh view on war journalism. Kirsten Dunst has a very consistent performance as the already hardened experient photojournalist. Cailee Spaeny also shines portraying the arc from innocence and idealism to the coldness and adaptation. Wagner Moura goes well, as always, but not as brilliant as in several brazilian productions. Ending is a striking portrait of the dark side of journalism and of the Armed Forces. As a matter of fact, it is interesting that we see US Armed Forces behaving precisely as US Armed Forces do, but here not against foreigners as usual. The director's choice was more action-oriented, and it is very well done indeed. The drawback is that I felt that many interesting elements could have been more developped in this so interesting story. Outcome is nice, anyway.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Marvel Star Wars
This movie in the Marvel Cinematic auniverse is sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, superhero action, almost a story in space, expect for not being held in the space! The film has amusing moments, with a strong flavour of Star Wars (and perhaps a little bit of Star Trek). Action, however, is somewhat confusing sometimes, and some events happen without a proper explanation. There are soft political messages for housing rights, against police abuse and in favour of revolutions against oppressive imperialism/colonialism, which could have been strong if developped with that very intention. The humor works most of the time.
Eternals (2021)
Bad, generic, inconvincing, incoherent...
The movie is bad (despite being a delight to see Gemma Chan and Salma Hayek), and perhaps worsens after the first hour (and there os a length of almost two hours and a half!). Some things did bother me here: 1) the film is the most generic superhero flick possible except for the different historic times that are depicted, and it is also too confusing sometimes; 2) the characters deffinitely do not behave convincingly as if they had been living for thousands of years; 3) with their multi-racial appearance and their not hidden superpowers, there was no chance not to impact fragrantly in all those civilizations and not to be mentioned in their written or pictorial history; 4) dialogues are terrible, varying from dull to silly. When it comes to present day, I could not help but feel that I was seeing a Justice League of the United Nations fighting Space Jam Monstars (and eventually Bizarro). Perhaps it would have worked better if it were actually that...
A Bela América (2023)
Very nice Portuguese movie, but the wnding is very disappointing
The first 40 minutes were so promising! I was expecting a smart political comedy of manners, with nice characters and funny dark humor. Then, the movie changed its mood, amd emphasized another path. It still had amusing elements, like the over-innovative cooking and the blind mother and her wigs, but was a little contradictory (about the role of Noémia in Lucas's life, for instance). Indeed, it is hard to decide whether he was more stupid for his behaviour towards Noémia or towards América. There were nice moments, anyway, and I liked the film. However, the last aproximately 20 minutes are frustrating and unacceptable. They simply made clear that the script was lost and not driven by a consistent plot to be developped. It mixed different elements incoherently, and even may be understood as normalizing current fascism instead of being critical. It is a pity.
Emilia Pérez (2024)
Very bad! All those awards are a shame!
I don't know what is going on... it seems a bad joke. How an awful movie like this may be so much awarded everywhere, including 13 nominations in the Academy Awards, the Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) in the Golden Globe? That is ridiculous. It is embarassing for producers associations which organize those festivals, and disrespetful for filmmakers from all the world. It is also a huge disappointment that Jacques Audiard, who made excellent "Dheepan", "A Prophet" and "Rust and Bone", is responsible for this. The film manager to make angry both Mexicans and transgender people due the stereotyped way it represented both. As I do not experience the movie from that place, I will criticize other extremely serious problems I found. First of all, the script and the whole story make no sense. Why the hell a drug trafficking boss who intends to undergo a sex reassignment surgery kidnaps an attorney and hire her to make it happen? Why the fact that had a transition to transgender contributed for a drug criminal like her to make an impacting campaign for finding missed cartel victims? That makes no sense, and is deffinitely not a serious way of dealing with neither of those important issues. Incoherences in script (like the eventual concern of Zoe Saldaña's character with accepting dirty money) happen throughout the film, and I will not detail more of them in order to avoid spoiler. At least specifically in the last part of the movie (certainly the best of it) those absurds could be viewed as a parody reference to Mexican soap operas. Additionally, dialogues are very bad (not to mention recurrently commented problems on the non-Mexican accent or lack of Spanish speaking skill of most of the casting), and so are all the songs and musical scenes (what is quite impressive considering it is partially a musical!). Kitsch visual does not work well in most of the film, and it looks like a B production despite the huge budget. In 2024, dosgusting "Oppenheimer" was awarded with the Oscar of the best film against excellent movies such as "Zone of Interest" and "Anatomy of a Fall". Now (I write after Critics' Choice and before the Oscar cerimony), ridiculous "Emília Perez" has been awarded against much superior films such as "I am still here" and "The Conclave". That is a shame!
Cry Macho (2021)
A minor film by Clint Eastwood
It is a minor film by Clint Eastwood (off course not the worst, as there will always be American Sniper as the stain in his mostly beautiful filmography). It is great to see this skilled 91 years old director still working and acting, off course. However, I considered the script as badly written. Characters do not always behave in a coherent way. Dialogues are uninspired too, and seem to didactically ponctuate what is going on. The boy Eduardo Minett had a disappointing performance, and it increased the artificial atmosphere the script itself already produced. Actually, what is not incoherent in the story is just the opposite: the most predictable cliché possible. Edition has serious problems along second half of the movie (at least it had in TNT exhibition on TV).
Three years before, Eastwood made another road movie, The Mule, and it was much more compelling. If the comparison is about Eastwood's character learning and becoming affectionate to a boy and increasingly adopting a father role, then, off course Gran Torino, my favourite movie by him, is a much more successful exemple, and so is Million Dollar Baby, if we think about a girl. More importantly than that, when Eastwood made Unforgiven, there was a true and deep revision of his role of macho man invincible cowboy. Now, he may have a schematic speech about "the macho thing" being "overrated", but it is just a caricature: the 91-old man with cowboy hat fights, rides, attracts women (in the plural), points the gun...
Conclave (2024)
Deep inside the Vatican, a great conclave
A great political film (mostly a political thriller) set in the Vatican. With a deep striking performance by Ralph Fiennes and very good characters, perfect art direction and beautiful cinematography, there is a quite good story depicting ideological and power struggles and not commendable human stories inside the Catholic Church. The rivalries were more than personal and strongly motivated not only for vanity and wish of power but also by a strong dissent on what are faith and the good, and how the Church shall be. The last part of the movie goes straight in that clash, carefully developped throughout the film. As I believe, God is there in the script, and the very ending is very appropriate for the film core issue. I could not expect that I would ever watch a production about a conclave at least as good as the first episode of TV series The Borgias, but I deffinitely did ot, in an immersive, amusing, deep and beautiful feature movie!
Dominion (1988)
I expected a good dystopia, but I saw silliness and reactionary bias
Initially it seemed to be a dystopic future with heavily infected air (where there are cyborgs and, as Wiipedia explains because I did not understand those two women with cat ears, android catgirls, or neko-girls, created as sex-dolls but who eventually became criminals beyond originlly intended programming) where the police is terribly violent, actually a development from nowadays police, with the very same approach, being boosted in its militaristic aggression against the population and disrespect for the law and human rights: they started to use huge armed tanks inside town and wanted to introduze nuclear weapons in crime fighting. Well, that actually appears in the film, but the those policemen are portrayed in a sympathetic and supposedly funny way, as if it were just a matter of being hard-boiled and commited to the duty. Indeed, any criticism vanishes completely a little after the introduction of character Leona, as she was the example of good behaviour and good intention, and she developped anaffectionate bond with those very tanks and also the idea that the police is in a war and all strength and financing is necessary to fight crime (sadistic torture included). Dialogues and situations are generally sillly, or cheesy, or reactionary. Therefore, the story is not only bad but also increasingly hateful. There is a good animation work, and I liked the mushroon-like architecture, but the scrript compromises he outcome. There are stupid moments which seem to be created by young teenagers, such as those ridiculous inflating weapons the criminals used against the police.
Pinocchio (2019)
Well done and dark Pinocchio!
This is a very interesting adaptation of Pinocchio, allegedly truer to original source than Disney or Del Toro's wonderful movies. It has a darker but also charming (and humorous) tone, reminding older films, as there is much less CGI than generally in current fantasy movies (CGI also exists, particularly in the donkey and whale parts of the story, and is well done, but is not exaggerated) and makeup is much more important (as it were in the 1990s, 1980s and 1970s). There are colourful characters (Mangiafuoco, the fox and the cat, the snail, the teacher, and so forth...), and, much more than Pinocchio himself, I loved Benigni's portrayal of Geppetto. The representation of an impoverished carpenter turned to father of a special and naive boy was great. Poverty is indeed a question that is recurrent in the script: boys steal to eat, and even the mischievous villains are actually motivated by starving. The numerous antropomorphic characters are mostly human-like but with some remarkable traits provided by the skilled makeup work, which is excellent in the whole production. Some parts of the story are faster and simpler than I was accustomed in other versions, while others are extended. Also, characters had a very different level of importance: the fairy, played by Marine Vacth, the "Lolita" Isabelle from François Ozon's Young and Beautiful, has a core role in a great part of the story here, while the talking cricket is quite minor. Additionally, there are some scenes which are much more disturbing than any other version I had watched, reminding me the awesome fairy tale movie by the same filmmaker, Matteo Garrone: Tale of Tales. To resume, this is an underrated Italian fantasy movie, a good and authentic depiction of the classic story which certainly worth watching.
Khitrovka. Znak chetyryokh (2023)
Replacing Sherlock Holmes for Stanislavsky
Amusing Russian detective movie, adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Sign of Four, but replacing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for actor and director Konstantin Stanislavsky and journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, and London for dangerous and low-class square in Moscow called Khitrovka. Besides the duo, there are colorful character in either major or minor roles. Khitrovka itself is almost a character, always crowded, and it is very nice how director Karen Shakhnazarov (who has other movies I enjoyed from both Soviet era and post-Soviet times, like Zerograd, Ward Number 6, and We are from Jazz) showed in each scene several events happening at the same time.
Yami no teiô kyuketsuki dorakyura (1980)
Melodramatic and silly, but with good atmospheric moments
This is a Japanese Marvel Comics Dracula animated movie. I liked the animation style, but the story is silly. Satanist cult vs Count Dracula in love vs Vampire Hunters in Boston. Things are not well developed and there are many cheesy melodramatic moments and parts with excess of narration. The eventual miracle and Janus's story (and his very concept) make the film worsens. Dracula eating a hamburger in New York exemplifies well how poor the script becomes. On the other hand, I did like Lilith, and it would be nice if this character had more screen time. The film would also be better if it had less melodrama and more horror atmosphere such as in the first 14 minutes or later with the zombie vampires.
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Extremely bad!
Stupid fantasy Netflix film for teenagers. Bad plot, embarassing acting (Sofia Wylie and Jamie Flatters among the worst), irritating characters, silly art direction, caricatural representativeness (which however reinforce sexism, and also the idea that blond hair is more beautiful and associated to good at least on probability), lots of clichés and cheesy slow motion, that annoying pompous narration (they could make even Cate Blanchet go badly!), terrible soundtrack, awful battle scenes. Very little is nice (like the birds that transport to the schools, or the explanation given inside the tower in the end about the victories of the good) and what could be good ideas (king Arthur, cyclops, the creatures) are badly developed. It is inspired in fairytales, but not in a smart way. It questions manichaeism and the bias based in appearance, but it does it clumsy and irregularly. The kiss of the true love as the proof of being good is one of the stupidest things I ever heard. Sophie is by far the best character, but certainly not enough to save the movie. If at least they assumed that they were lesbian, it would had a good ending.
The Lighthouse (2019)
Very innovative, expressionist, but terrible end
The film is very innovative, both in its black and vintage visual with almost square ratio, and in its script, written by the director and his brother, and inspired by the last text by Edgar Allan Poe. The story happens in the 1890s and the movie sometimes seem to have been shot in that decade. Good performances by Dafoe and Pattinson and great costume design and art direction contribute to that effect. On what concerns the aesthetics, cinematography emulates expressionism. The very first scene seemed taken from Murnau's Nosferatu (a movie the filmmaker would produce a remake of five years after The Lighthouse). There are also moments when it reminds Hitchcock's Birds, but I do not think it is a horror movie as sonenpeople label. Then, let us move to the script from now on. It is about two lonely men in a very dysfunctional labour relationship. The script do not maje it clear what actually happens and what are hallucinations, imagination or lies, as both become drunk, seem driven into madness under those harsh conditions, and appearantly have dark backgrounds. Besides that, there are lots of superstition and sea folklore, and we do not know if its fantasy or delusion. Characters alternate aggression and warmth, joy and argument, and cooperation, confession and lie, in no coherent basis, what reinforce the impresssion of increasing madness and alcoholic escapism. All that is unusual, perhaps even weird, but innovative and refreshing. However, that interesting experience is compromised by the endpoint. Although the movie has great merits, its bizarre ending is seriously disappointing. It should have ended twenty minutes before.
The Whale (2022)
Darren Aronofsky and Brendan Fraser did it!
This is one of the big films directed by Darren Aronofsky. The script, adapted from a play, has deeply built characters, a nice structure where previous and essential story is being unveiled when characters clash in their arguments, and really brilliant dialogues (I loved Charlie's definition of the Bible, justnto give an example: "I thought it was... devastating. God creates us, expels us from paradise, then we wander around for thousands of years killing each other before he comes back to save 144,000 of us. Meanwhile, the other seven and a half billion of us fall into hell."). Cinematography mostly in a single dark room and Brandan Fraser's fantastic performance make together an impressive claustrophobic sensation throughout the movie. All actors do very well, but Fraser impresses particularly for his body work, supported by a masterwork makeup. The film is a heavy drama, but not of the easy one kind, which manipulates spectators' feelings. It is much smarter, with quite genuine characters and issues. Several depressed people damaged by various authentic social problems, from the loss of beloved ones to religious conservative pressures and repression, from childhood and family trauma to the sentiment of shame and failure. The film has just six characters (besides the online students and Alan, who is already deceased and is just mentioned several times), what makes one suspects it is adapted from theatre even if does not have that information. It works well, as the interaction between them is quite strong and penetrating. There are parallels between The Whale and another movie by Aronofsky, The Wrestler, with both main characters impressing visually, feeling decay, and dealing with the imminent death in a way that is not avoiding it. The Whale is mostly a sad film, but there is also some hope. The ending is just like what Chatlie advised as a teacher: what really matters, "the honest things", is not always what is widespread accepted.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
What a difference when you have a good director!
I was skeptical in the very beginning, considering the opening scene too videogamish, but I changed my mind very soon, since the following scene with the demon (who reminded me D&D RPG monster Beholder, in a giant version; very cool!). Off course spectator may expect an overwhelming CGI extravaganza, but it works, and it does it for a simple reason: the script is surprisingly quite good. When the multiverse issue becomes trending and action films (with Marvel in the core) are mostly CGI-dependent without any deepness or writing quality, it is really engaging and refreshing to watch this sequel, also much better than the visually nice, and acceptable but not great, first film starred by Doctor Strange. The story is good, the supposed madness actually made sense, and several events were interesting and amusing. The various spells are very nice, also a good inspiration for roleplaying. Sam Raimi is a good director, and I still never watched a film by him I disliked. Scarlet Witch showed to be a nice villain, much more interesting than her role in every film I watched before where she took part (I never watched series WandaVision). I also enjoyed every alternative universe that appeared in this film, and the various characters and versions as well. I liked the arc of Stephen/Christine, America Chavez, and Wanda. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is perhaps even more a fantasy film than a superhero one, and has additionally nice elements of horror, sci-fi, and comedy. Good movie.
Vesna (1947)
Lyubov Orlova os the best of the film
The film by Grigori Aleksandrov has its good moments and gags, a beautiful cinematography, and a nice general idea (visually identical actress and scientist swap their roles while a movie about the latter was to be made, and, while they deceive, there is a lot of learning for everybody about life, conventional wisdom, and love). The problem is that the movie is too slow and tepid. Its greatest merit, for sure and by far, is the fantastic performance by Lyubov Orlova. Much more than the director's wife, she was a top actress in Soviet cinema. Orlova was able to perform well two characters with very different personalities and mood, and also both women disguising themselves as if they were the oher one. This Soviet comedy reminded me a lot a genre of cinema which would be very popular in Brazil in the following decade, called Chanchada, which consisted in light-hearted and often chaotic musical comedies. The difference is obvious: in Spring there is no samba, but some patriotic propaganda. Aleksandrov had been a partner of Eisenstein, directing Oktober with him, but eventually directed alone several comedies. This one is better than his The Shining Path, but it is much worse than funny and smart Volga-Volga.
Rabbits (2002)
Dark rabbits
This is an aesthetic experiment by David Lynch, exploring weirdness and confusion feelings. The dark set with great usage of light and shadow, together with enigmatic and possibly meaningless dialogues and characters who are antropomorphic rabbits for no reason create a mystery atmosphere, which is disturblingly contrasted with the laugh and applaud track in sitcom style placed in moments they never fit. Released an year after great Mulholand Drive, the three-actor cast is entirely composed by actors of the feature movie, included the leading duo, although here the two gorgeous Laura Harring and Naomi Watts cannot be recognized under the dark brown rabbit masks.
HollyBlood (2022)
Good Spanish vampire flick which mixes genres
Not everything works in this Spanish movie, as there are some too silly moments, but the good ones not only overcome them but also are simply hilarious. The film mixes genres, alternating from dark humor comedy of manners to horror parody and to high school romantic comedy, with references to vampire hunting action flicks and a funny mockery on Twilight. Holllyblood is a film that entertains and it made me laugh loud. The way they portayed Azrael was brilliant! I may also add that, as great filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar showed several times, nobody mocks on the Catholic Church as the Spaniards do.
The Marvels (2023)
Teenage public empowerment vs wasted opportunity to discuss imperialism
While 'The Marvels' is not as terrible as bad ratings and box office bomb may suggest, it is not better than recent average MCU franchise flicks either (differently from good Captain Marvel). It is confusing (and too much dependent to other films and series), tepid, and has an extreme teenager stamp (what may tire a little who are not part of the juvenile public). Action is frentic (the switch-strategy of team fighting is nice, but other action scenes do not work very well), and the drama (from interplanetary refugees to family issues) is shallow and underdeveloped: spectator feels nothing. Off course I have seen much more ridiculous villains in other superhero movies, but the bad guys here, particularly the leader Dar-Benn, are also far from interesting and visually rough. At least silly gags are on average less stupid than in most other Marvel films from the 2010s and 2020s (and the Cats scene was actually funny!). By the way, if it were a better written movie, not focused only in making youngsters feel identified with the three main characters, there is a general plot that could have been converted in a consistent script: imperialist powers use stick politics to rob natural resources from the periphery, just like in the Earth!
Transe (2022)
Perfect depiction of 2018 Brazil, but not a good movie
The film is a precise depiction of the mood in 2018 in Brazil, when Jair Bolsonaro was elected as president of Brazil. The dispair an perplexity of those who support democracy and human rights was precisely like what was shown in the movie. However, despite that, the movie is not good (but it is obviously far from the disaster bad ratings suggest). Why? What the directors and producers intended is not clear, and there are different problems depending on their very intention. If the idea was to criticize the naive and poorly politicized upper and middle-class non-activist leftists who do not connect to the majority and agree that the art and positive thinking will be enough to change things, a different approach, not in first-person, would be desirable. As spectators follow character Luisa, her point of view is implicitly portrayed as "the correct". It is true that the character has an arc, changing her behavior as the story advances, in contrast to her lovers-friends-roomates. Then, the intention of the directors and producers coud be to didactly induce spectators with the same drawbacks shared by the characters to be more pro-active and critical. That possibility could be reinforced by the talk in the bar, where minor characters Bella and the black guy (whose name I could not find) have several quotes clearly directed to explain what was going on in Brazil to the three (Luisa, Johnny and Ravel) and to the spectators. Well, did they expect that only that profile of spectators and citizens would compose the entire attendance of the film? They have all traits of the caricature of what the left is in the eyes of the most narrow-minded conservatives: they use drugs, are bissexual and have an open love affair, they do not want children and have a family structure that is very different to the conventional, they are apart to day-to-tay problems and life of lower classes, they party and sing all the time and are never seen working or studying, they want a better world but have confusing and esoteric understanding about politics and society. Off course left wing people are various, and among them there are people identical or very similar to those in the leading roles, but the film decided to chose the closest possilbe to the caricature to represent them (with both traits which are not problems at all if there is no prejudice, and also effective drawbacks). Therefore, if spectator is right wing, if she/he voted for Bolsonaro, she/he will probably reinforce her/his perception about the left and about her/his own vote for the far right after watching it. Particularly because one of the best built characters in the movie was João, the guy who would vote in Bolsonaro. Among the three main characters, musician Ravel is a particularly annoying character. To resume, the film has the great merit in portraying well a dramatic moment in Brazilian history, but chose characters that may bias the very understanding of what it portrays.
Jack et la mécanique du coeur (2013)
Wonderful animation
This is a charming and visually wonderful animated fantasy film with elements of steampunk, expressionism, romantic drama, musical and even Western and high school. The fantastic often appears as metaphor, as the discover of the world and of love is risky and the clockwork heart may break. I simply loved the twisted architecture and the slim characters. Genius filmmaker Georges Méliès deserves the homage. The are are nice adult gags and smart oneiric usage of animation possibilities. Pace and the script are a little uneven (and I did not enjoy musical score), but the ups overcome the dew downs.