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Lola rennt (1998)
Lola runs...can you keep the pace?
I was utterly satisfied and amazed by this cinematic masterpiece even though i did not know what to expect in the first place...all that narrative introduction filled with big time questions left me somehow on the track of a philosophical approach...i was ready for an ontological experience...but what really happened exceeded my imagination...we are facing here the real life experience seen through the eyes of a female teenager, we are witnessing the dramas that can occur only in a vivid imagination highly tributary to roll playing computer games and quests for identity...Maybe is for the first time in cinematography when we are witnessing the birth of an individual(speaking from a psychological point of view)...she reloads her own life in order to chose another path, and that only in a desperate attempt to solve a puzzle quest of love and duty...well, this is the romanticism of a high-tech generation; these are the tears of joy in a computer era; and this is the new ontology of the millennium...everything is virtual and when people actually interact there is a narrow limit between the outcome of their actions according to the choices they make...it is repetitive, it is about love, it is different, it is religious...and it is new and masterfully crafted...i'll give it 9 out of 10...and i'm ready to take another tour... Game over
Day of the Woman (1978)
awful, ugly and unbelievable in every conceivable sense of the word...
Usually i don't waste my time writing here about the movies i've seen...but when i do this, i do it for two reasons...whether the movie is brilliant and i want to share the feeling(not the case of this one!)...whether is a complete dirt bag of nonsense and amateurism, an insult to every viewer that ever saw a good movie in his life(the case of this one!!)...i completely lost 100 minutes from my life, so i have to warn people all over the world: if cinematography ever meant something for you, if your artistic sense regarding movies is lucrative, if you do not like to be the mockery of a director that never completely understood what his profession is about, and finally, if you have ANYTHING better to do with your time, then DO NOT go to see that thing(i don't imagine the right word for it)...it is an utterly failure in every sense of the word...to compare it with Noe's Irreversible would be like comparing a goose with a jet plane(both of them have wings...)...i can not think of a single thing that will lead you to a movie theater to see this...it's not the fact that the movie is violent...violence in movies is good as long as it serves to a higher semantics...but here is just another part of a 3 coins opera... So...if u want to spare yourself from a headache...please avoid this third hand cinematic Highly unrecommended 1 out of 10 ( and that only because i have no option for a zero...)
Shigatsu monogatari (1998)
there's always poetry when a child becomes a woman...
This was my third Shunji Iwai experience...richer than 'Picnic' and far richer than 'Undo'...once you get a glimpse of the artist you already know what to expect...beyond lyrical brilliance there's always a sense of sadness in a way that never really meets the eye...maybe is the music (classical masterpieces wonderfully chosen) or maybe is the loneliness of the characters depicted in a very personal manner...the fact that remains is you can not pass-by such movies w/o being deeply touched in a cathartic way... I somehow knew what to expect from 'April Story'....I have to admit that i red some of the comments posted here prior to seeing the film...and i went seeing it with some preconceived ideas on my mind...and nevertheless i was utterly satisfied...because the master done it again...but take my advice and go see that movie w/o knowing anything about it...it's deeper than a symphony and far insightful than an exhibition...and it's an exceptionally vibrant homage to whatever being a pure woman represents....highly reccomended...9/10