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A Resilient Man (2024)
A must see
A précisé and extremely rare view inside the life of a powerful athlete whose an artist, poignantly intimate balancing between mundane views of everyday life and shining bright star focusing attention of a dedicated crew. Team built between choreographer, physical coach, Pilates practician, surgeon colleagues and the heartened family of the wounded danseur étoile from the royal ballet. You got a grip of the harsh reality in what is the inside delicate machinery of men and women who dances for the pleasure and awe of the few, ought to inspire the many to discover and watch ballet as excellence arena of human celebration. Filmed by a one man eye, beat all the sup s heroes movies...
Dune: Part Two (2024)
As many sand Burn
The story works perfectly, sound is masterfully efficient, raising voices and attention, the main lack comes from the absence of the guild of travelers, they are the main Reason why and how Empire is ruled. First movie mentioned quickly the butlerian wars, Jihad, and most briefly the travelers. On second dame Jessica takes à pregnancy that never ends. And for Paul and is mindset then we are trapped in an emotional downsizing shrinking the all action and bravery. Scènes in the intimacy of the Empire court looks like a dojo resort styled by a Flemish decorator. Missing grandeur. The dialogues with : "hey you guys what are you laughing about " sounds less than epic, also. The best atmosphere are the main toxic B&W party on Giedi Prime. And obviously sex scenes are forbidden when you market a movie for international . Odd time where killing and burning holocaust scene are to feel like ordinary.
Saltburn (2023)
Must have been a party
Production and crew must have enjoyed a blast of a party for this movie. No wonder money flow all over the screen, worshipping boy toys and their errands. Actors in full close up, we are to be more intimate than flies on their nose, sad odorama is not in fashion anymore, we could have enjoyed all spread of intimacy and pheromones. But, welll' yes there are butts and pits and even s-k-nobs... a rare taste of today headline which might in few light months should be forgotten and even ignore in some years from now. Might have been more interesting in a series of two or three episodes, shortened in a movie, the all pattern remixing great expectations through all about eves fall short.
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Savoured and mourned
Took time to watch this rare gem of writing and intriguingly complex story. The episodes going back on earth before the end of it all are gripping. We are to be as dumb as these folks believing a god to kill all or trusting a machine to kill all the others. Androids will provide parenthood. That's blunt and violent, with a wonderful art direction, did watch every generic just to. Enjoy and interiorly cry at the all light beauty of the music with the gasping images of explosions, and this travels of point (less) being like lighted curves in a dark sky. We have to watch the two series to grasp the bottom of this story. Won't bother to enlighten the plot, it all goes by how tales and beliefs are written and remembered, knowing that a first wave of earth travelers did try to raise their own civilisation, but were overwhelmed by the planet spirit/ being/ conscious. It' s a story where human adaptation is climbing the wrong side of the ladder, little humans thought they could bend this planet to their schemes, but instead it's the planet that will turn them into something odd, the final line of Campion foretold this omen. Actors are major ! Extraordinary and the interaction between the children in the meantime lost boys with mother as a toxic and killer Peter Pan. That was a pleasure, reallly, I just wanted to give this appreciation to readers who did really enjoy it and for a reward to the all team who did work so hard, and create this magnificent object. Rare moment of angst and bliss on Tv.
Babylon (2022)
Baby Lone
Executed in historical material, braiding the sordid and the sublime, between well-known anecdotes peppering a rich plot, Damien Chazelle's overly long, full-length film draws up a list of the American cinema gnosis that it would be an absolute luxury to savour, if it were stated with the monotone fervour of a Patrick Brion of "le cinema de minuit". But now, we don't really dare to claim this erudition anymore. For popular is this film mounted as a happening, precise as a kitschy peplum of ancient Greece or the tales of the Round Table dressed up in Golden Age glamour. All the episodes of the early studio saga are mixed and mimed by "gorgeous" people puppets, to the rhythm of a tap filling a suicide tub.
The silhouette and elegance of the protagonists do not fit the images of the time, the silhouettes of a Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks or Mary Pickford for example were thinner or even skinny, with certainly carefree elegance, but not clad in skirts draped high on thighs, like this poor Margot Robbie that they (the Hollywood system) will manage to wear out before these 40 years so much she burns by the two ends of the kohl, Coke and alcohol. We bet she doesn't drink a drop in real life.
The music has a nice place, this is "action", with sublime set pieces, or animating shootings in the middle of the desert, does not pass the bar of the refrain for the soundtrack which never manages to carry us away, heavy, redundant and finally tiring. The new inclusiveness box, to be ticked from now on in the productions, fails to link the elements together, the young Asian girl like Anna May Wong, mixes Marlene Dietrich and Mrs Dragon (Looney Tunes), the trumpeter a mutant (Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong etc) jazzman is forced to dress up in black shoe polish during a recording sequence, a famous reference to the singer, film the Jazz singer, since in the first talkie, another hero of the production, Al Johnson wears this pitiful blackface shoe polish, attempts.
Of the palisades underworld.
The episode in the underworld as a nod to the conspiracists, recycling the sleazy cast of Freaks and an Ultimate Battle, lacks the infernal humour, of a "Harry in all his states". Then, as the drum rolls dry up towards the end with a phoned-in suicide sequence, the time machine sends us back to the studios of the 1950s with a dull glow. To the established powers and the sacrificed updated in a sequence where the transitional vehicle of the whole film, Calva, a young skateboarder with bitten fingernails, struggles to come to terms with his sudden fifties, bursts into a finally magical, if very commercial, sequence, unfortunately unnecessarily lengthened and diluted in effects with erudite references for a bewitched chief-op. If you want to see the film again, you will be amused by the countless extras from the gardens of the current series scattered throughout the scenes. This film could have had grace, it has the hype of the moment. Is Babylon Boulevard still to be built?
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Avatar 2, there, where everything goes to hell.
How to describe the feeling of a spectator who feels humiliated, even slapped by the inanity of the purpose of a film extended for more than 3 hours?
The first avatar was a surprise and an event, the second opus, thirteen years later, uses the same characters, all of them and their children, resurrected and newborn, to deliver a bad war film, noisy, badly edited, with botched narrative axes, shortcuts repeating the situations of the first opus. We see scenes from Titanic being rehashed, with no genius in their self-citation. The magic, the science fiction, the characters are crushed into a caricature, where the only option is violence and death. Many variations and rich scenes could have been exploited: the society of tyrant old earthlings seeking immortality at the cost of life and the invasion of an entire territory, for example. Everything is sad, violent, whiny and disappointing. What a shame.
The Wheel of Time (2021)
Deceptive such mess up plot
What a deception ! Characters, a lot ! But who are they what, and why are they so naive, stupid, stubborn and short sighted ! All dressed up like a thrift shop fashion low show, Plots for who? Why ? When ? Teasers in entrance / teasers afterward giving us hope .. but then we're back in slowest lane talkative actions with the 5 or 4 villagers who just wish to get back in their countryside dumb land ! Why !!!!? The bad is Baaaaad and caricatures, the good is crying and irritating ... nothing holds together and we don't give a f... damn of the so call mystic of it all... good actors, wonderful sights, and battles for nothing... please telle the guy who is mastering wolves he has an ability... it takes so so so long ....
House of Gucci (2021)
It's not bad acting just loosy parts
The all american cast sounds silly, it should have been played by Italian actors, it would have at least fitted the dumb lines and tele novella ambiance.
All excellent actors when they have nothing to say and no directions awkwardly stand and sound in a tacky decor.
This movie is a Very bad idea.
Foundation (2021)
Score crossed
When the music is good, it means the musical score writing is respected. This space opera might have inspired and fascinate the ensemble makers, set, light costume, but it leaves the story, it's own melody, the song of the future honestly drawn and earnestly thought by Asimov at his time way too far. Why not call it inspired by... here is a different future fantasy.
Jupiter's Legacy (2021)
Blame it on the vacuum
Capes are bad idea ...Poor style and always gets stuck in the jets...in this umpteenth rehash of another one of the superhero series, the characters are so unpleasant, vulgar, square jaws nightmare, breathing threw lame lines whistled by the all casting caricature types Alpha. A festival of swaring insults which sends the impression of living in a dystopia where the Trump family would be Shakespeare. Wondering when it will take off, but everybody hates each other in this play and we tend to hate ourselves hoping somme sort of sense will rise in there, somehow ?
Little Women (2019)
Booooooring
Abused by the huge promotion last season tried to find any slight interest in that poorly produced, miscast and boring piece of very bad movie. The frame changes and cut ups editing doesn't bring any depth to the play, characters come and go as muppets dressed. In big names held together mimicking joy and pain. Pity full.
Devs (2020)
Why Ou ouate ze baise ?
Gorgeous idea totally ruined by the lamest plot in this quantum reality ! Hope it exists at its full potential some branch above or below . Why ? The writers are all gifted . But honestly... this amount of talent plays no with such flat imagination - brillant photography.
Kotetsujo no Kabaneri (2016)
Brillant anime
Surprisingly good, this anime grabs attention with ambivalent characters and an original work of scenario where nothing is never totally settled, brave and attractive personalities , the only concern is about the easiness how killing and mass destruction is used, like no concern for the masses, as long as one or two still safe. A question if a specialist might enlighten me, does some of the crew of drawning and animated department worked with Miyazaki ? Creatures and some face features strongly remind the master hand.
Pennyworth (2019)
Darkly clever
Everything in this brilliantly put together show astound, alternate reality with brick walls and black smokes fog, a sense of tribute to the early Avengers ( Steed indeed), some of the plots are as dumb and foolishly absurd tend to get horrific and tense in a twist. Applause !
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Zombie-logy
Powerful sets scenes with no originality / the deads are the living / a bit of Horcruxe search (raging sea waves and weapon clue), love till death and the people against evil power ( protected by a womb like sub-red space, there lies a growing armada with who knows galactic credits) but all too many Caucasian ... bitter end with no magic,
Legion (2017)
OK,....well 'what can I say ?'
Powerful, demented, superb, never the same, scary, mind blowing, shaky, sad, gripping, pfou... don't ask me for details, it's too rich for words
Dark (2017)
Tolle Arbeit
Oui, we can speak in German, because we don't have this masterpiece for a show level in France, talking about SF style. The actors, the drama, the plot, the tech, all ist gut ! And more, just jump in it, even if the good story is about aged people, the teenagers are not what or who you think they should be, and that is really exciting. Not 10, though, because, well because what if 1921 travel was really effective then somebody could have been fixing a bit of the beginning of something in Germany, non ? Well that's maybe to Tarantinesque..
Sex Education (2019)
education needed
Send a tittle able to hook a huge target as this one subtly invites you to..
Place it in an arcadian land, not totally suburbian, not totally countryside, not in the UK, not Canada, (hum..), or Tasmania, New Zealand Australia (no the accents are way too European), But anyway, note the USA, please.. And then you can dress all relationship with this both sides understanding. And everyone should explore this side of education, not fantasize on X rate caricature or self inflicted cruelty that seems to be the message, when addressing about sex to teenagers in Shows in you know where..
Euphoria (2019)
Moralistic Glam
Love the show, well done, creepy and gloomy neighbor rendered with dark lights, and mist. I watch it at first, with a bit of apprehension, and knowing also I'll be a little bit more depressed after.. Seeing all these young characters so tender and cruel, crude and lost. As a grown up, I say it makes the hair grow white or fall by horror astonishment. Yes. But reading all these reviews, passionate in NYT, (even a panel of two young women former addicts reading through the action for fact checking : whats look right or lame.. amazing !) and the reviews here and there, the status of the show becoming viral, I must admit it works its parts very well indeed. First as a very moralist show, dressed in the glitter and freshness of teen glam. The parents are pets, some dead, some drunk, cause of everything, for sure, you bad parents ! and the young ones are just virgin sponge craving for love and attention. Nobody learns nothing (don't talk about culture, literature or art, My G. ! so vulgar and commune), so they wander lots souls, from one tentation to another, boost by ego maniacal fathers or badly watch and seen by weak mums . Sexuality is the goal, caricature of it, for sure, binge drinking and drugs to break down all the intimate walls. That's a very very sad and depressing sight for the future,. The image of the neatly by color stored home made DVD in the father drawer, are for me the epitome of this story. Zendaya, Hunter,Angus, Austin, Barbie are some wonderful and very brave young actors, hope there will be future for them as actors, not being trapped in these very depressive impression of what life is, supposed to be like, poorly driven by oblivious egomaniac parents..
Just after seeing last episode, a call : please can there be anyone telling who is the actor playing Rue's father, Mr Bennet ? His passing, the role of his death is of so much meaning, that I really don't understand why there is no mention of him in the all cast list ! I was just heartbroken by the choice of soundtrack (Donny Hathaway) during the scene reminding this all episode.of his death. The show is a brilliant piece of new story telling. Loved the club scene with Jules and her friends in town, in France we use to say 'on s'est mis la tête à l'envers" and it is really what happens, it is just brilliant. Bravo, for the all production and cast and what the story brings to exchange and relations between young and older viewers. A book shall be written about Euphoria, in the future, to summarize all the layers..
The Magicians (2015)
Book and cast
Watch it, binged it and it was difficult to like, a lot of very bad situations acted poorly, to understand I read the book. The plot lines are so diverse, it must have been difficult to drive, together and keeping all layers rich and playful. The story was bent for the cast, it's an idea, but the story in the novel, when you read it, was for me, strong enough, to be acted the way it is told.. As I say to friends : a very good show with very bad actors, (not as bad as the shadowhunters or the Gifted, though), but you tend to stick with them, finally as you stick to your family or some friends at work.. Question to amazon, when will we be allowed to watch the new seasons (3/4/5) in France ? What release date ?
High Maintenance (2016)
My little shot of new york
Since I've discovered the show on French Chanel Canal plus I keep it low and precious, by watching one episode before going to sleep, I laugh so hard sometimes, or hate the situation but love the exposition, or loathing the characters and adoring the plot, it gives me my little shot of. New York which I miss so much.
Babylon Berlin (2017)
Fantastic Berlin Beasts
Brilliant, images play with "Kino" references of the best German and Russian productions from the late 20's, that was the first awe I've had, watching the first action scene in BB. Watch it in German, all the actors are excellent, and hot ! Even the soundtrack is creative, and the credits animation closing it, is a wonderful reference to animation's essay from artists of the Suprematism and Bauhaus period. For the millenials an air of Fantastic Magical Beasts might appeal to.. Still love it, even if the S2 was a bit awkwardly deceitful (the drowning scene, the train action, the boys finding clue ...), still the inside view of how acted the nazis and their lies is brilliant !
Altered Carbon (2018)
Immortal Violence
Great show, poor dialogues and weak co-characters. Meanwhile, all the reality, the society and this sort of future seems like good ideas on the script, but then the lines these dialogues ! and the "modus vivendi" of it all are finally falling short.
Intriguing and challenging as it may have been developed, the violence and the fights in this project just bore. Layers of reality and shape changing are fun and entertaining, but all of these flat lines, flat personality, greed, murder, inhumanity of a future looking too similar to our own society. Love it though. But if there is a S2, please change the dialogue writer !
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
haunting
I have big time watching this show, but it is not harmless, I did have a full night of nightmare, living through this dystopian society a full live action survival in a regime of lies and terror, tends to make me think of North Korea and some China Regime before the 80's..Actors are brilliant, and production a bit too clean for me, but amazing. I read some reviews, few where negative, without real explanations, the parallel between Isis and this aftermath Christian society, is not relevant, Christians in centuries used to harass, kill and rule minds and bodies by terror. I tend to think, this regime there is not christians (they destroy churches) but a wicked derivation of faith by the Book, which is the main problem that most religion are facing.
Travelers (2016)
low tech sci fi budget wise
The story line catch your attention, the low tech tease your nerves, the casting needs stronger characters, you'll never see their future, in short, that is the main problem of it all, all this could have been improved with affordable disguises, but ... Like it though, just started three episodes The story line catch your attention, the low tech tease your nerves, the casting needs stronger characters, you'll never see their future, in short, that is the main problem of it all, all this could have been improved with affordable disguises, but ... Like it though, just started three episodes The story line catch your attention, the low tech tease your nerves, the casting needs stronger characters, you'll never see their future, in short, that is the main problem of it all, all this could have been improved with affordable disguises, but ... Like it though, just started three episodes