bibliub Reviews

Delitto d'amore (1974)

forgotten gem

[8/10 · 19 August 2018]

Class struggle, environmental awareness, critique of industrialization, love, cultural mores. all explored with quirky elegance and utmost kindness for two young characters who are trying to find their way in the world, and to each other. heartbreaking and hilarious. sandrelli and gemma bring to life rare moments of non-pathetic tenderness. the writing is sharp and on point, the directing minimalist. i don't know why this film is not more present on the radar. perhaps it loses steam in translation; perhaps it's because there are no heroes, only people, and one single, desperate grand gesture ...

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

pretentious and grotesquely bourgeois, over-acted, miscast

[6/10 · 12 August 2018]

The setting: the italian countryside the characters: ridiculously enthusiastic professors, grad students, and a talented, bold adolescent who transcribes schoenberg and reads voraciously (+ various caricatures of italians) the dialogue: quotes from seventeenth century french drama, analysis of heraclitus and hegel, which fall entirely too short to add anything, but are thrown there to display how smart these people are how much more pretentious and grotesquely bourgeois can you get? to make things worst, the guy who is supposed to be the exotic american everyone falls for has the charisma of a paper bag, and is a terrible actor the actor who plays the teenage character is the anchor, but the ship is too heavy for him alone to save it

No God, No Master (2013)

strange mix of usefulness and untruth

[6/10 · 30 June 2018]

Valiant attempt to a portrait of class struggle, government corruption and alliance with industrialists, radicalization of workers against inhumane labor conditions. interesting weaving of the scapegoating of sacco and vanzetti. dangerous portrayal of luigi galleani, who the director accuses of collaborationism with the palmer administration. why assign the role of traitor to a historical character who was certainly an extremist, but not a collaborationist? there's no doubt infiltrators were active and successful, but galleani is too famous to be so grossly misrepresented. also, the music-->unbearable

Atonement (2007)

unbearably pretentious/dorky

[5/10 · 22 June 2018]

And that typewriter sound. the music is bad enough without that patronizing, embarrassing gesture to "remind" us about the fictitious version of the account... wow, what a visionary move lol

Vida (2018–2020)

shame

[6/10 · 4 June 2018]

Show's got potential. sadly, every character is like a cartoon. also, sex has its place and time, but every other scene there's someone getting it on, masturbating, being naked just cause, in ways that are unnecessary to the plot, and it's not sexy, or "real," it's just annoying. it's all trying too hard. no go.