3784 - A IGUALDADE É BRANCA (1994)

Julie Delpy

1.       A IGUALDADE É BRANCA (TROIS COLEURS, BLANC, França, 1994) – Julie Delpy é obrigatória. Ela poderia ter tido mais tempo em cena, nesta segunda edição da trilogia de Krzysztof Kieslowski. Mesmo no papel de má, ela resplandece com suavidade e está tão bela que dói. The central quest for liberty is personal; the struggle for equality is fundamentally social. White is the most conventional of the three Color films, and Julie Delpy makes it memorable, despite the little time she has in scene. Despite playing a merciless character, she is so beautiful that it hurts. 

 

3783 - LIBERDADE É AZUL (1993)

Juliette Binoche, mostrando a bela face da dor

 .     A LIBERDADE É AZUL (TROIS COULEURS, BLUE França, 1993) – Juliette Binoche é obrigatória. Sim, foi por ela que assisti a esse filme. Não me enganei: a história é dela, em todos os aspectos. A liberdade do título se refere a forma com a qual sua personagem lida com a imensa dor de ter perdido tudo que amava. O filme está repleto de significados sutis e crescentes a cada cena. Juliette Binoche is obligatory. Yes, she was the reason I watched the movie. I was not wrong: the story is entirely hers, in every aspect. The freedom of the title refers to how her character copes with the immense grief after having lost everything she loved. The movie is filled, almost drenched, in subtle meaning which grows stronger at every frame. 

 

 

3782 - A GRANDE MENTIRA (2010)

 

A GRANDE MENTIRA (THE DEBT, USA, 2010) – Thriller sobre uma caçada de nazistas, com Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington e Tom Wilkinson. De certo modo, Jessica Chastain tem a atuação mais memorável, como uma agente do Mossad numa missão de capturar um cirurgião nazistas nos anos 60. Além disso, como pode ser tão linda? The movie is a Nazi hunt thriller, starring Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington , and Tom Wilkinson. In a sense, Jessica Chastain has the most memorable performance as a Mossad agent in a mission to capture a Nazi surgeon in the 60s. Besides, how can she be so gorgeous? Prime.  

3781 - SOMBRAS DA NOITE (2012)

Eva Green, perfeita

1.    SOMBRAS DA NOITE (DARK SHADOWS, USA, 2012) – Este filme de Tim Burton faz algo muito raro: ele fascina você, na medida em que entrega exatamente o que se espera do diretor, nem mais nem menos, tudo bem fundamentado num ambiente gótico e ótimo CGI. Johnny Depp, em mais um personagem esquisitão, está perfeito. Além de tudo, há Eva Green, cuja presença é uma ótima razão para viver centenas de anos. This film from Tim Burton does something that is rarer than you might think. It whelms you in the sense that it delivers precisely the satisfaction a sympathetic audience could expect from its director, not one degree above or below, bringing to the audience the Goth style enhanced by good CGI. Johnny Depp, playing another weird character, is perfect on the role. Moreover, there is Eva Green, and her presence is a very good reason to live hundreds of years.  

 

3780 - THEM (2020)

 

 THEM (USA, 2020) - Amazon Prime’s new horror anthology series THEM opens with a gloriously nightmarish, sepia-toned prologue. A woman and her baby are alone in an isolated house when an apparently innocuous old woman walks down the road towards them. She mentions that “we” saw the woman’s husband leave and begins singing about “Old Black Joe”. When she hears the baby, she brightens and asks “Can I have him? Your boy? I’d like him very, very much.” This is a series that goes there, at full-speed, using a Black family’s suburban hell in the 1950s as a reflection of all that came before and after it. It’s more effectively horrific than it is horror, and easier to accept as loving exploitation than ruthless high-art. Prime. 

 

3779 - ROMA, CIDADE ABERTA (1945)

O olhar de Ana Mangni diz tudo

ROMA, CIDADE ABERTA (ROMA, CITTA APERTA, Itália, 1945) – Este filme de Roberto Rosselini mostra a ocupação de Roma pelos nazistas, num estilo de documentário, dando início ao Neorrealismo cinematográfico italiano. Imperdível. Emocionante. This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films that would follow it to form The War Trilogy. Open City, Italian Neorealist film, released in 1945, portraying life in Nazi-occupied Rome during World War II. Directed by Roberto Rossellini in a documentary style that was innovative for the time, the movie brought international attention to the Neo-realist movement and became one of its defining works, influencing numerous later filmmakers.

 

 

3778 - A TENTAÇÃO (2011)

A TENTAÇÃO (THE LEDGE, USA, 2011) - Written and directed by Matthew Chapman, “The Ledge” attempts to fashion itself as a philosophical meditation posing as a thriller. Hotel manager Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) has fallen for Shana (Liv Tyler), who works as a chambermaid while being married to Joe (Patrick Wilson), whose strict religious fundamentalism has apparently straightened out her life. The movie raises some interesting issues about atheism and religious fanatics. 

 

3777 - ARIZONA NUNCA MAIS (1987)

 .       ARIZONA NUNCA MAIS (RAISING ARIZONA, USA, 1987) - Contado num estilo de Looney Tunes, o filme aborda o desejo americano de ter uma família ideal. Nicolas Cage é o herói contemplativo: um ex-detento, cujo sonho se materializa no casamento com a policial Edwina (Holly Hunter). Juntos, eles caem na estrada, atrás do sonho de ter um filho. Este Segundo filme dos irmãos Cohen é um mergulho num precipício, com seu ritmo alucinante e suas cenas de desenho animado. Totalmente encantador. Told in a kind of Looney Tunes style, Raising Arizona is a film that questions the desire to achieve the ideal American family. The contemplative hero, Nicolas Cage, hopes to escape his orbit between jail and freedom when he resolves to marry Holly Hunter’s police officer named Edwina, a partner seemingly capable of making him drop anchor. Together, they are hit the road for making their desire to have a child come true. For their second endeavor into filmmaking, the Cohens sought to create something that looks like breakneck speed. The movie is marked by a bright, hilarious living cartoon-like sequences, shot in a series of pensive dreams, elaborate chases, and the energy of an animated short. Entirely charming. 

 

3776 - A PRIMEIRA NOITE DE UM HOMEM (1967)

A PRIMEIRA NOITE DE UM HOMEM (THE GRADUATE, USA, 1967) - One of the most beloved American films of all time, The Graduate earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman. Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a clever, endlessly quotable script by Buck Henry (based on the novel by Charles Webb), The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation. The final sequence with Hoffman and Katherine Ross, both on a bus, is one of the most remarkable in the film history, simple as it is. 

 

3775 - 007 SKYFALL (2012)

 007 SKYFALL (SKYFALL, USA, UK, Turquia, 2012) – Sam Mendes, de fato, entende essência dos filmes de James Bond. Sua sensibilidade é a ferramenta explorada ao máximo por ele. O resultado é um filme único, repleto do charme e do carisma tradicionais entrelaçados num estilo urbano, moderno e instantaneamente acessível, resultando num dos melhores filmes da série. Daniel Craig mostra que é o melhor James Bond de todos, devido a sua hierática postura como o melhor agente da MI6, o que dá ao filme a roupagem certa de ação e traz doses muito benvindas de humor, extravagâncias e sensualidades, ausentes nas últimas edições. Javier Barden está sensacional como o vilão responsável pelos melhores momentos da franquia em anos. Sam Mendes really understands the gist of James Bond movies. His sensitivity is the tool he explored to the fullest. The result is the uniquely named 'Skyfall' a Bond film so full of the vintage charm and charisma yet fashioned in modern, urban and instantly accessible style that it ends up being one of the finest films of the franchise. Daniel Craig proves to be the best Bond ever, especially due to his gravitas as the best agent in the MI6 agency, which gives the movie the right action dressing, and brings in welcome dollops of humor, luxury and sensuality that went missing from the franchise with the last outings. Javier Barden is outstanding as the villain in charge of the best moments of the series in years.  

3774 - A CHAVE DE SARAH (2010)

  A CHAVE DE SARAH (ELLES’APPELAIT SARAH, França, 2010) – Kristin Scott Thomas é uma atriz obrigatória: linda, talentosa e com os olhos tristes mais encantadores de toda a galáxia. Ela é uma das raras atrizes com completo domínio de cena, com a qual nos identificamos logo no primeiro fotograma. No filme, quando começa a descobrir os fatos do passado, passando por vários graus de envolvimento e indiferença, ela se transforma na sua dimensão existencial. Daí o cerne da história: a natureza do pertencimento ao nosso próprio tempo. Tudo que orbita o tema – a chave da menina judia – se reveste de um horror quase sensacionalista, o que não compromete o restante de um filme cuidadosamente estruturado, quando o analisamos com atenção.  Kristin Scott Thomas is an obligatory actress: gorgeous, talented, and with the galaxy’s saddest and mesmerizing eyes. She is one of those rare actresses who can command the screen with quiet brooding. She's convincing in a way that we identify with, and our sympathies are with her from the start. In the movie, as she uncovers the past facts and faces varying degrees of concern and indifference, she herself undergoes an existential transformation. This, by the end, is really what the story is about: the pertinence for our own times. The specific events around the title idea, the young Jewish girl's key, are horrifying to the point of being slightly sensationalist, which does not compromise the rest of such a studied and careful movie when you take it in stride. Prime. 

 

3773 - SR. E SRA.SMITH (2005)

 SR. E SRA. SMITH (MR. AND MRS. SMITH, USA, 2005) – Algumas vezes, bastam duas pessoas em cena. O roteiro fica em segundo plano. O que importa é a “química”, um termo científico que, atualmente, se refere à complementaridade estabelecida entre dois astros em cena. É o que acontece com Angelina Jolie e Brad Pitt, e por isso o filme funciona. Se fosse de outro modo, a história cairia no precipício do script sem sentido, e nada o salvaria. Angelina e Pitt dão conta do recado. São tão belos, que tudo acaba funcionando, e o diretor Dough Liman aproveita totalmente o que tem nas mãos. Sometimes, it is enough to have two people together on the screen. The plot is immaterial and somewhat irrelevant. What matters is the "chemistry," a term that once referred to a science but now has also to do with the heat we sense, or think we sense, between two movie stars. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have it, undoubtedly, and because they do, the movie works. Otherwise, had the movie not worked, it would have fallen into oblivion, and nothing would have saved it. Angelina e Pitt have the job done. Beautiful as they are, everything falls naturally into place – this is a tool the director Dough Liman explored to the fullest. 

 

3772 - TROPA DE ELITE (2007)

TROPA DE ELITE (BRASIL, 2007) – Freneticamente filmado, TROPA DE ELITE é ainda um filme intenso, mostrando as questões intestinas da polícia do Rio de Janeiro. Wagner Moura, como Capitão Nascimento, tem um papel central ao descortinar o ódio do sistema responsável pela brutal, porém necessária (?), formação do BOPE. O filme também é sobre a característica fascista da polícia numa sociedade crescentemente sem lei. Franticly shot (pun intended, ok?), ELITE SQUAD is still a poignant movie, showing the insides of the Police Department in Rio de Janeiro. Wagner Moura, as Captain Nascimento, has a pivotal role, displaying the rage pervading the so-called system responsible for the brutal abet necessary (?) formation of BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion). The movie tackles the depiction of police as a fascist element amongst a growing lawless society.