by Felipe Rosa
Get Low: first of all, what a wonderful group of actors. In addition to that, the themes resonate: human contact, the fear of the truth about oneself as well as that such truth will remain hidden, self-forgiveness. Wonderful little movie!
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Black Orpheus: a beautiful, tragic story, as is expected from its Greek mythology source. The soundtrack is, obviously, wonderful, as are the visuals. Other than that, however, I can’t say I liked the movie much. It felt too much like a travelogue to Old Rio during Carnaval, at most times.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: a nice way of telling an OK story. It had some nice touches, and the visuals/editing were nice, but at the end of the day, the story itself was not all that strong. Still, a fun time was had, so all is cool.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island: a worthy finish to the trilogy. It’s the better of the three, but that’s partly because it carries the advantage of having both the backstory provided to it by the first two, as well as a proper ending. The characters are all fleshed out, and the story ends as it should. I missed the dolly shots this time, but the other things I loved before were still there. See also: Samurai II: Duel at […]
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure
by Felipe Rosa
The Kids Are All Right: nice movie. Good acting by everyone involved, the story was interesting. It’s not “about” homosexuality, as some would like to make us believe, but about people. I liked the road chosen at the end: it confirms what the focus of the movie was.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy, drama
by Felipe Rosa
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple: interesting enough, but still needs to be seen as a part of the whole. As a stand-alone, it feels like something is missing. Again, I’m mostly impressed by 3 things: Mifune (as usually is the case), the camera work (beautifully revealing dolly and crane shots) and the music (it’s very Western-y, which fits the story). See also: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure
by Felipe Rosa
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto: as is often the case with series that were planned as such, judging this as a stand alone is tough. Particularly in this story, where the characters are simply in the process of taking shape, and when they do the movie is over. It’s interesting enough that I wish I could watch the next one right now. The use of dolly is wonderful, and Toshiro Mifune is indeed a force of nature.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure
by Felipe Rosa
Salt: in every movie, or even in every story we are told, there is some measure of suspension of disbelief that is called for. Well, whatever they asked for in this film was more than I was willing to provide. In addition to that, characters that are basically all unpleasant. Not the best afternoon I had watching movies recently, sadly.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Drunken Angel: I was able to appreciate it more than like it. I’m always impressed by how well Kurosawa navigates in different genres. But maybe today was not the best way to watch it: I needed something else, I don’t know what yet.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
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