A very special film. To my surprise the director, Claude Lelouch, was at the theater and introduced us to the movie. A spectator asked him how he succeeds in making such simple scenes of life feel so special and full of soul, to which he answered that all dialogues in the movie are dialogues he has heard in real life, and that he didn't want the actors to be actors, he wanted them to be a man and a woman,…
You know when you're so high that you can't follow the plot of a movie and the images just by? This is how I felt, except I wasn't high.
The humor is very underwhelming most of the time, it's like British absurd humor but done the wrong way. It has some good parts but they don't make up for everything else.
I wonder if they butchered this remake/adaptation or if the original is similar, I will find out one day. :)
Muad'Dib, the Hand of God.
Watched the extended version, which was around 3 hours in length.
Apparently I should have watched the The Alternative Edition Redux version by Spicediver instead, which seems to address a lot of issues.
David Lynch removed his name from it and appeared as "Judas Booth" in the credits. I wish the studio had let Lynch have full creative control, but I guess there was a lot of money in play and they pressured him to…
Ainda estou aqui.
A good memoir of the atrocities the military dictatorship of Brazil committed between 1964 and 1985. A fascist dictatorship, taken by force, that happened with assistance from the U.S. government.
What is shown in this film is one of the many cases of torture and disappearances that happened during this period of history, cruel events that are unpunished to this day.
This film is very well made; it takes you through a very emotional journey with the…
