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| HEAD-ON
(Fatih Akin, 2004, Germany, Turkey)
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This is one of those films where everything’s
dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. A
movie filled with lots of screams, hysteria
and violence but if you dig a little deeper
you’ll see that it’s very shallow
and doesn’t have anything interesting
to say. At the time the movie finished, I
said to myself: so what? |
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| A
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
(David Cronenberg, 2005, USA)
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m the one who’s
wrong, but honestly I still don’t understand
the hype of this movie. As a thriller, it
doesn’t work because there’s no
suspense and everything’s predictable,
and as a drama, it also fails because it lacks
character development and there are lots of
clichéd situations. I still can’t
find the point because the movie doesn’t
say anything new or profound about the nature
of violence. But, I don’t know, maybe
it’s me. |
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| THE
HOLY GIRL
(Lucrecia Martel, 2004, Argentina)
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I like Martel. I like the way she directs,
the shots of her films and the way she tells
stories from everyday situations. She has
a unique style that’s very realistic
and natural but cruel and distorted at the
same time. |
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| THE
INTERPRETER
(Sydney Pollack, 2004, US)
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| LOOK
AT ME
(Agnes Jaoui, 2004, France)
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Maybe
I’m overreacting, but this movie is
sublime. Maybe I’ll have to wait, calm
down, and see if this film is really that
great. But what I do not want is to forget
how much I enjoyed Look at Me while
I was watching it. The dialogues were smart
(and sometimes funny), the situations were
really realistic and the ensemble cast was
great and natural. |
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| LOST
EMBRACE (Daniel
Burman, 2004, Argentina) |
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