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Trianon (2005)
A shallow documentary
As a fan of history, I expected this movie to provide more details about the Treaty and its circumstances. I've been disappointed. The movie decries the loss of territories to the neighboring countries while it says absolutely nothing about the majority peoples who were living there. I wonder, how would Hungary have got along with those majorities? The single ground stated by the Magyars is that they ruled those territories for 1,000 years. Sounds like time turns a theft into a deed of ownership.
I would have made it better.
The Visitation (2006)
An excellent film
At the first sight, this is a thriller/horror movie. At least this is what some say about it. Yet, after I saw the beginning, I thought it's rather a religious movie, as the healings depicted are made quite seriously. So I told "ok, here is a religious movie". However, the initially-good guy turns to be evil, while only a couple of persons are able to see that. In the end, some strong Christians are able to show the little town that the healer is not of God, but from Satan. The followers of the faked Messiah are in fact possessed and eventually delivered from evil through the prayers of a Pentecostal preacher. No, don't imagine anything commercial or Robertson-like about it! The scenes are simple and truelike. So I can say this is a Christian movie. My faith has been strenghtened and I recommend the movie to all Christians.
La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)
An excellent story about true friendship
Unlike the perverted friendship depicted in the (in)famous Brokeback Mountain, the Legend of 1900 is about two men bound by true friendship and music. A man born on a transatlantic ship runs his entire life aboard, never set foot on land. He has an incredible heart and talent for music, he plays the piano without learning music. He meets another artist, a trumpeter who gets hired aboard the same ship. They become colleagues in the ship's orchestra that entertains the voyagers. A friendship that goes through years, while the piano player, who is not recorded in any official paper, never goes off the ship. A story about authentic male friendship.