MES FICUNAM 2016 (25): AND THE WINNERS ARE… ONE FLOOR BELOW AND KAILI BLUES
One Floor Below By Roger Koza Unlike in Marti, dupa Craciun, what is being explored in One Floor Below / Un etaj mai jos is the commitment to truth, and not adultery. The plot is as simple as a...
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By Roger Koza L’aquarium et la nation, Jean-Marie Straub, Suiza-Francia, 2015 Straub insists to mitigate triviality, which is always near cinema, although never near this filmmaker that now shoots,...
View ArticleTHE LAST FILM: FEW WORDS ON LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Like Someone in Love By Roger Koza After some time spent experimenting (Five, 10 on Ten, Shirin), Abbas Kiarostami seems to have found a new way; leaving behind the Iranian villages and children of his...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (20): GLOBAL TRIP
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza The Iron Ministry, J. P. Sniadecki, China-EE.UU., 2014 (***) Any film about present China is also a...
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*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza Byl Mesjaz Maj / It Was the Month of May, Marlen Khutsiev, Ex-URSS, 1970 (****) A preamble of horror in 7...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (22): POPULAR TALES
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza Aquel querido mês de agosto / Our Belowed Month of August, Portugal-Francia, 2008 (****) Aquele querido...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (23): COLLECTIVE MYTHS
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Ausma / Dawn, Latvia-Estonia-Poland, 2015 (***) By Roger Koza The message lies on the poetics; and the true plot is...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (24): MEMORIES AND PLACES
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Beskonechnost/ Infinitas, Rusia, 1992 (****) By Roger Koza Heaven is infinite, but this doesn’t mean it can offer any...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (25): DISPLACEMENTS AND IDENTITY
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Pod Elektricheskimi oblakami / Under Electric Clouds, Russia-Ukraine-Poland, 2015 (***) By Roger Koza A couple of...
View ArticleSHORT REVIEWS (26): OUR MEN
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Chevalier, Greece, 2015 (**) By Roger Koza Chevalier opens with a panoramic shot of a coast in which two men can be...
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