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È stata la mano di Dio (2021)
A film for dreamers
The Hand of God is an autobiographical film by Paolo Sorrentino, in which he portrays the period of his adolescence that culminated in his decision to make cinema.
I was drawn to this film by its atmosphere, its way of portraying memorable events, both pleasant and painful, in the life of a teenager.
Although it is autobiographical, the film has a dreamlike, imaginary tone, enhanced by the director's incredible ability to put us in the position of a young man who suffers, who desires and who dreams intensely.
Sparring (2017)
Do what you love
This movie portraits Steve's (Mathieu Kassovitz) professional drama. Steve is an aging father, husband and boxer with much more losses than wins. He's hired to be a training fighter of a famous and talented boxer. Over the course of this professional challenge, Steve shows his value as an experiencied, although loser, boxer fighter.
Les innocentes (2016)
A jorney on faith, hope, life and death
Agnus Dei tells the story of Polish nuns who were raped by Russian and German soldiers in WW II. In the film, one of the nuns seeks help from a French doctor, played by Lou de Laâge. At first, the doctor refuses the request for help and sends the nun to look for a Polish post. However, at the end of her shift, she sees that the nun has not left, but has remained on her knees praying in the snow in front of the medical inn. The doctor decides to help, and discovers that she will have to deal with a group of pregnant and tormented nuns in a convent that is governed by a discipline harshly imposed by the superior mother. On this journey, she runs into issues of faith, sin, hope, violence, life and death.
Banquete Coutinho (2019)
A film for Coutinho aficionados
A Treat of Coutinho (2019) is an unprecedented interview with Eduardo Coutinho mixed with scenes from films directed and performed by the director. For the viewer who doesn't know Coutinho, the Treat is nothing more than an interview about a guy who "smokes cigarettes and makes movies", as he defines himself. The film is made for an audience that already knows the director's professional life career, for who has watched all his films, who has seen and read interviews with Eduardo Coutinho, it's made for the Coutinian audience who knows that the film reveals almost nothing new about the director. But if it's made for the public that will find nothing new, why should we watch to the Treat? First because the montage made by Eugenio Puppo and Gustavo Vasconcelos brings together film recordings with memorable characters from movies like The Ending and the Beginning (2006), Strong Saint (1999), Scene Game (2007) and Babylon 2000 (2001), in addition to showing scenes from the director himself in dialogues behind the cameras. Secondly, because we like to see Coutinho verbalize on themes that pervades his works, such as life and death, work, the art of encounter that presupposes conflict, his magical materialism, unequal power relations and his reasons for making cinema. Last but not least, because we, Coutinians, have not seen any new conversations with the director since the posthumous launch of the Latest Conversations (2015), and we don't know if anyone will ever come up with new material about Coutinho which has had his life taken in 2014. Thus, the Treat is like the last cigarette in the pack. Let's smoke it.
Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll (2006)
Historic animation
Wood & stock is a great animation, adaptation of the comics wrote by Angeli. The script surrounds two main characters, friends, middle age hippies, crazy about rock and roll that lives a incredibly sloppy life. After Wood's wife goes away to a religious trip, the two hippies stay at home and struggle to live by their own, with no job and no big responsabilities. Then they pursue an old dream of playing in a a rock band and that's how the movie develops. Another main character is Re Bordosa, belongs to the same crazy hippie generation of Wood and Stock that lives a promiscuous and very sloppy life as well. She is trying to ge better doing therapy. The character is dubbed by the rock singer Rita Lee in a very remarkable way, and Tom Zé, brazilian singer, dubbed Raulzito with his poetic way of talking. The movie is very much fun, a lot of jokes about society and common habits, but you may need a little patience to adapt to it's cartunish looking style. The sounds doesn't match with image syncrony perfectly, but it's no big deal. It just represents the first branches of the brazilian animation cinema that started to develop in the decade when this movie was produced. Great movie, entered to the history of brazilian cinema. Recommended to mature audience.