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Reviews
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Fiction and images to counter the horrible reality of our times!
Pauline Jewett
I loved it too!
It is one of those films that counters sentimentality and run-of-the-mill love stories with intelligence and a subtle shower of understatements that I find as refreshing as they are rare to find in most fiction.
Her friendship with the black classmate is such a great way to show how we can care for one another even at a distance and even secretly. Even the
"boys" don't fare badly at all and even patriotism is wisely handled.
I highly recommend it especially for these very sad times of ours!
Il vizio della speranza (2018)
The Italian way to be "lawless."
Societies just about everywhere are going through some very difficult times and Castel Volturno and it's river community is no different. There are people who root for slavery as a way of life and deprecate freedom as a greatly overrated value.
And yet, in all that chaos, a woman destined to be childless not only conceives but delivers her baby successfully and does not die in the process as had been prognosticated and a "good man" who has lost his faith in mankind finds the strength to talk God into taking his life and let mother and child live because otherwise... what the hell did he live for... was his life a total waste?
I know you are not used to this kind of thing! But that is probably precisely the reason things are as messy and as rotten as they are in a world of fake freedom and prostitution and human trafficking and slavery and child commerce!
We have corrupted just about everything... how do we bring it back?
The Bookshop (2017)
The way movies should be
This is the way movies should be filmed, acted, written, photographed and narrated.
Even the arrogance and the incivility of some is perfectly counter-balanced by the tenacity and the endurance of the suffering humanity.
There are moments in the history of mankind when, perhaps we can do no better and no more than to quietly suffer the consequences of our stubborn free nature.
Morte di un matematico napoletano (1992)
It may be a Naples one can no longer see or identify with
Martone is great in a difficult film to make and to do justice to. It was made in 1992 but describes a city of the late fifties and a university of other times... long before the student revolt. Naples was then a delightful provincial town but highly creative.