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The movie Call Me By Your Name has earned all of its Oscars. Where Moonlight (the movie which received 2017 Best picture) is ugly in its truth, Call Me By Your Name is beautiful and light. However, the topic is very polarizing and this movie is not meant for the Eastern European audience (more a bout it further). Elio and his parents spend their summers in their house in Italy. All his family members are intellectuals: Mr. Perlman, his father, is an archeology professor, his mother - a polyglot and Elio himself is a music genius. The family spends their time either in multi-language discussions or reading books. Every summer his father asks a post-doctorate to come and help him with his work, and here comes Oliver - a beautiful out-of-the-cover-of-a-magazine American. Even though Elio is smart and very grown up for his age, this is the first time in his life he'll find out a different kind of an emotion. The movie has beautiful scenery of little Italian towns, sunny meadows, clear water and colorful human characters. Even the maid had a personality even though she only said a few words. What wasn't said in the film, the audience had to understand themselves. To compensate the silence, film has a fantastic soundtrack. Unfortunately, the auditorium was filled by middle aged orangutans. I was surprised to find out that there are still people (yes, in this day and age of information) that don't read the annotation and go to movies blindly. On the other hand, I did manage to restore some belief in humanity: two ~14 year old girls who sat next to me (even though the movie is 16+) didn't make a sound. Aand they even exchanged excited commentaries after it. Overall - bravo! There should be more movies like this.

The Latvian heist movie made everyone laugh. Being honest, the cause of laughter possibly was the lively and uncensored language. On other hand, the jokes weren't weak as well. While watching the movie, even the introvert let the breath run through his nose a bit faster (I know since one of them was sitting next to me). Even though my humor is probably destroyed by internet, some of the jokes tickled even my funny bone. The story goes quite slowly but it didn't hurt the intrigue. TV screenwriter Imants has a great idea to try out everything he writes for a new TV show about thieves ('scuse me, tricksters). Meanwhile, his friend Harry wants to make something out of himself and earn a buck. What begins with stealing Pupsiks (a dog, which eventually makes its owner crazy) ends with Imants idea of becoming a criminal authority. I have to say the location scout did his job very well. Some of the places were perfect for recreating authentic feeling of the 90's. Cinematography was beautiful and the color scheme was nice to the eye. The actors were great for their roles and I have a feeling that we'll finally have our own movie actors (Latvia has a lot of theater actors but none of them usually fit the movie scene well). The only thing that was a bit out of place was the dubbing. Sometimes the voices weren't what you'd expect from a running person or while being in the interior of a speeding car. And the other thing - the rule of thirds exists for a reason. Even the sociopath laughed. That is a good sign that the movie was great.