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Here and Now (2018)
Oh, come on!
A story that doesn't go anywhere with a touch of Murakami tricks.
La villa (2017)
As the life itself
The ability of the director drives the film through a quiet ebb that does not know hampers or falls. A family reunion redimes the past and opens up a future with recovered principles. Splendid in their subdued tones, as always, Guediguian's actors, and delicious the idea of recovering some of an ancient movies with the same but young people in it.
La La Land (2016)
A musical? Come on...
They can't really sing, they can't really dance, the music is trivial, the plot less than that. I miss you, Fred and Ginger, and I didn't expect that much, but not so little.
45 Years (2015)
Little ado about almost nothing
One keeps waiting for something able to justify what (doesn't) happen, but it never happens and there is no real justification. The "no communication" item goes back to Antonioni and nowadays it is a little worn-out, especially if there is so little to communicate. In the end, you do not know what she is complaining about, why he wanted to go but does not go to Switzerland to see the corpse of his late girl friend, the 45 years spent together did not seem too bad, what the hell do they want? Tom Courtenay as always: very very good. Charlotte as always: mere presence, a gift of god that she does very little to deserve and to thank for.
The Honourable Woman (2014)
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A decent story spoiled by en erratic script going unnecessarily to and fro with lines hinting but not saying, a director in love with still life and pauses (to make an Antonioni it takes an Antonioni), an over-acting actress (Maggie Gyllenhaal must think she is sort of an Eleonora Duse, always posing and sniffing and grimacing). Even the good ones, like Stephen Rea, are compelled to stay frozen all the time pretending they are the most intelligent people in the world. Andrew Buchan (Ephra Stein) is cornered into an absurd love story with the nowadays usual and gratuitous sex sessions. Alltogather very very boring, the only plausible thing is that almost everybody is bad or stupid, quite similar, even though unwillingly, to real life.