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Geumul (2016)
Beautiful portrayal of a man captured in-between two worlds
A nice portrait of a simple man who is driven by fate to go from North Korea to the South, against his will and his struggle to rejoin his family. The movie concentrates on his agony to return to North Korea. His eagerness to reject every temptation of South Korea is his manner to protect himself from both the unknown pleasures of capitalism and also from the inquiries of his communist government, once he shall return. It's evident throughout the movie that it's mostly his family that he misses and not so much his beloved country. Even though the main character is doing his best to show to everyone -and mostly to the propaganda of his country- that he is a loyal citizen of the regime, it's quite clear that he wouldn't mind giving it up if someone could help him re-unite with his wife and daughter. However, since he realizes that this is impossible to happen outside North Korea, he is determined to do everything he can to go back. In that angle, the movie is more about personal feelings and family love, crushed in between two completely opposite cultures and lifestyles and in the end, I think that it succeeds to pass the message that emotions for the people you love are more important than ideology. Besides some easily foreseen behaviors of the main character and some rather quick passages of interesting moments that could make the movie better, the acting of the main character is superb and overall makes of the movie a very interesting picture of the situation in the Korean peninsula
La belle et la bête (2014)
nicely done picture, ideal for family night out
This is a fairy tail, transfered on the screen with respect to it's original plot, pretty much as it should have been told two and a half centuries ago, when it was first put on paper (1756). Of course, given it's age and the nature of fairy tail stories, there are many variants from region to region and from century to century but the core of the story remained solid and this is what we see. I really had the impression that the story that i was looking at was told by someone who lived in the past and not my grandma. The realization is quite satisfying, the costumes and the colors are impressive but it's a bit too dark at some points. Maybe there should have been more day time scenes but i guess they wanted to stress out the dark side of the story. This was tiring. The music was all right but i really think that the producers could have done a better job here. More intensively ambient music could have make this motion much more interesting for a young audience. Overall, i think it's a beautiful picture to take your family to, especially if you have children -not too young though,it can get scary-.