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La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)
A great European director
It's a pity that movies like this one didn't get a roaring success. After having seen it twice, is really true that Giuseppe Tornatore must be considered as one of the best European filmmakers alive and one of a few able to tell us stories so impressive like "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", "Malèna" or this one. Tim Roth plays magnificently his character and all the supporting actors too. Obviously, helped by the sensitive Ennio Morricone's score as well as the realist production design. ( How is possible that the Original Soundtrack not even got an Oscar nomination?). But this kind of movies aren't blockbusters and the audience prefer another kind of movies which is completely nonsense and plenty of special effects and played by beautiful bodies and faces...
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
this movie has deeply knocked out me!
"Million Dollar Baby" is far more than a movie to me: it's just a real piece of life. If you don't feel anything after watching it, you're either dead or lifeless. It's quite difficult to hold your tears back throughout its running time. It's full of sympathetic characters and it is, morally speaking, infinitely more complex than the greater part of current movies. This movie is not primarily about boxing. It's not an essay, it's art, a movie about human beings as close as I expected. It looks like a classic one, full-blooded movies which the characters, the director and the screenplay (regularly written by real writers) were a lot more important than special effects or box office. An interesting movie in itself, because of there are a lot of heartbreaking feelings inside. I have seen this movie several times. The first time I left the movie theater so impressed that I couldn't get out of my head for a while. That's why I bought its stunningly Original Motion Picture Soundtrack three months later. I recovered it on DVD as soon as it released to realize how endearing the relationship between the leading threesome was. Besides, they are losers but they fight to change their spells of bad luck with dignity. For example, Clint Eastwood's character doesn't stop sending letters to his only daughter in spite of the fact they are always send back to him over and over again. They don't lose hope because they insist on getting a second chance for themselves. Sometimes I believe that Clint Eastwood is not who he really is. Maybe he is John Ford reborn. He has taken from the everlasting master the style, the feelings and their reasons for I think old-time movies will never be forgotten. The future looks bright for Clint Eastwood. Even though he's a 75 year-old-film star he's at the top level of his profession thanks to his two latest masterpieces which have been a roaring success all over the world and has no plans to retire, anyway!
Irréversible (2002)
A strange but not bad movie
This is one of the rarest film I've ever seen in my life. I can understand that sometimes this film is quite hard to put up with it, specially the outrageous Monica Bellucci's rape scene and I can understand too that many people, above all women, left the cinema. Needless to say this film is neither a porno movie nor tasteless sequences screened as if they tendon,t make sense. Lots of readings can be extracted after its showing. What might have gone on if the couple hadn't argued each other? Our life is not always the same as ever, could change a lot depending on occasions. Maybe our future is written in spite of not being aware of it. The performances are quite convincing: Monica Bellucci is a lot more than a pretty face and a stunning body and this transgressive film is going to introduce her to stardom ( I hardly ever imagine an actress so conventional, for example, Julia Roberts played a role like this). The men roles center on her but from my point of view Vincent Cassel's character is a bit upset and overacts at times opposite Albert Dupontel's which is calm and sensible to fly into a rage in a fortunately "politicatelly incorrect" ending. It is certainly a good movie, it's worth seeing unless you've got some preconceived ideas against out-of-the-way movies like this one. Apart from blockbusters there's another kind of cinema!