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Paparazzi (2004)
Bad, Ugly and Nasty
Is this it? Is this what American movies promote these days? Good grief! When walking out of the Theatre, I could still not believe how reactionary, immoral and utterly obscene this movie is. It is indulgent before murder, ludicrous in its plot, medieval in its way of thinking and purely ludicrous when it comes to the pretense acting. It also waves a big banner to the saying The end justifies the means. A new low for Mel Gibson's Icon? Certainly, but what should amaze us is the morals beyond this bad ugly and nasty little movie. They tend to throw in the trash everything that the Passion of Christ stood for. What about it, Mel?
The Brown Bunny (2003)
How can you unbreak a window?
This film is not about the road, it's not even about the driver it's about simple loss and pain. On the somewhat tortuous road of life, professional biker Bud Clay just roams around the biker's circuit, unable to communicate with others. Bud is not only contemplating life nor does he have plans to kill himself. He tries to live. He talks to people that he meets on the road, he just doesn't seem to connect with them. There's something in his past that has just changed his perspective on things. How do you survive your mistakes? Can someone unbreak a window? Those are the questions Vincent Gallo invites us to answer, in a simple, sometimes even brisk way. Either you embark on his voyage or you don't. If you do, chances are you'll get all your money's worth on powerful emotions. For all it matters this is one of the most intelligent movies I've seen in a long long time.
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
What a waste!
Eye of the beholder is one of the best examples of a really puzzling paradox: With thousands or even tens of thousands wrote in the world (or even in the USA alone) how do movies like these get done? Who decides it? What is the reaction of the people in the studios before the final result? Let's face it: The author tells us (on a small interview included on the DVD) that he does unconventional love stories. But is this what Eye of the Beholder is all about? Or is it a "Peeping Tom" update with pastiche production design? Was he trying to be Alain Resnais? Well, this is definitely no "Last Year in Marienbad", not even if Marienbad suffered from Down's syndrome. This is a film with a narrative within a narrative that tells two stories that eventually entwine on a sea of boredom. The question is: How did the talented and beautiful Ashley Judd, as well as Patrick Bergin and Ewan McGregor get into this? What a waste! Could he not have made this film with K.D. Lang playing all parts?..
Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
A tasteful feast of Music, Dance and Colours
If the 60´s were an excelent decade to explore new color matches, try new forms, and accentuate the visual part of your life in terms of Design, Fashion, and other industries, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort is one of the brightest examples of the study in color applied to a movie. In this film, every color is studied to the full, its possibilities enlightened the sets and made us enter a world of tasteful fantasy. Director Jacques Demy, winner of the Cannes festival for "Les Parapluis de Cherbourg" directs the two sisters, Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac as the twin sisters living at the village of Rochefort, waiting for their perfect love to arrive. Gene Kelly, Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darrieux complete the cast of one of the most beautiful films I ever saw.