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Quiet simply the best film I have ever seen. Beautiful, lyrical, sad and happy at once.

It also contains my all time favorite piece of movie dialogue I wont give it away, but the exchange between mother and child when the older Salvatore finally returns to Sicily and her mother wants to know whether you need a break. Heartbreaking. If you get the chance, try to find the original version (on VHS?) The tenor of the entire history of the changes between two versions, and I find the directors cut much sadder.

Ignore those who have less than 5 stars I do not know what they are talking about, trust me!

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I rented this with high expectations, being a big fan of Robin Williams / Nathan Lane / Gene Hackman remake (The Birdcage). It is amazing to see how much had been literally taken directly from the original remake, even Albin / Albert ’s screams!

But I fear, in the end I prefer the remake (though the son of this version is great). Perhaps it is because quite dated in places, which is certainly not because it is in French (subtitles to catch and humor). And I was expecting to be different, is less optimistic than the remake and gives a little to feel the bitter end of the film.

I am glad that I’ve seen, but not buy it (while the remake is one of my favorite “movies to my delight).

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Mondovino is an extraordinary documentary. Is self-indulgent, extravagant, and long views, but is likely to be indespensible, because the anatomy of a devastating conflict between the increasing local real production (the key word “French” terroir “) and globalization of the family who came from origin is forgotten and the emphasis is on quick satisfaction, forward flavor, taste and standardized.

The producer of this film is Jonathan Nossiter, polyglot, sommelier, happy Tipple, photographer, director and star interviewer in a documentary film? began as a quick, but wound up taking four years to do.

Nossiter appears as fluency in Italian as in French, and perhaps also in Spanish and Portuguese. It is often on the screen, addressing everyone in their native language, but the camera is its obsession with detail sometimes annoying, especially dogs. No matter, however, he makes the whole world open to him, including many of the major ‘actors’ in the international wine market, including those coming from the worst Nossiter in the documentary.

Even the dogs have come to respect. A dog is not the best metaphor for a true nature?

Obviously Nossiter likes Battista Columbu in Sardinia and Montilla Hubert de Volnay better? and it is obvious why. Are different types of men: Columbu is radiant and serene, Montilla querulous and biting.

But they are also what could be a world of flight - a wine-making which is authentic, personal, local, humane, which identifies the place of origin not brand, made with pride of craft not profit , or? what the Rollands Michel Mondavis and wants? for the whole world, no, throughout the universe domain of the market.

Both the camera openly dream of making wine on other planets and sell them all. Montilla comes across as more than the import Mondavis or any of the other edge and plutocrats. He has only a few hectares.

He makes the wine serious, nervous, not for all? like him - and of long duration. He is true to himself.

A major focus of Mondovino is like the California Mondavis? who has worked with over the first growth Bordeaux Mouton Rothchild expensive to produce a hybrid of California, Opus One, from the eighties - recently tried to seize a large part of Burgundy.

But a Communist mayor, took over the city of a Socialist and a darling of the deal was off. Becomes the Wine Spectator, as Nossiter shows, one of the manipulators, and manipulation is an essential aspect of globalization.

So too is Robert Parker, of Monkton, Maryland (to be interviewed and photographed background flatulence bulldogs). Parker has always been independent, but their ratings of wines (and taste) have come to exert too power on the world wine market. French wines are the ones who are terrified of him, and this has undermined its independence.

Parker, it has always been very friendly with Michel Rolland, a super-star French wine consultant (which will arrive at Mercedes limousine ride around), and that the kind of heady, forward, fast-developing wine you Parker like is also what encourages Rolland wine makers produce? and globalization not only means the elimination of small producers but mix the styles of wine.

Rolland, therefore, the exuberant charm is suspect, but so are Parker called authenticity and independence. Nossiter the richness of the image comes in the form that outlines the different wines and their families, sometimes bickering, members? Most all of Montilla, the stubborn, old and wise Feisty Hubert, his energetic son Etienne, who works for the powerful businessman, Boisset, and his daughter, Alix, in the personality to Hubert, who decided to leave because they want to Boisset mind - to put their stamp on the wines has overseen the development of.

Nossiter’s eye and ear can be devastating. The rich at the Staglin Family Napa Valley emerges as self congratulatory and self-deceiving new holes.

His decision to wine and other families “condescension, outright racism, and covert or past links with the fascists and the Nazis, including another of the persistent gradual revelations of the film. Nossiter as an interviewer said,” is not him on the subject of Berlusconi and Bush, but Berlusconi is just fine with the rich Italian wine-making

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Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1991. According to legend, Orpheus’ magical power as a musician allowed him to regain his wife from the dead, provided they did not look at her on the journey back from Hades - a condition it proved impossible to fulfill. Harry Kupfer in version updated, Orpheus in the leather jacket, trainers and jeans, his Eurydice is killed in a crash on the street.

Succumbing to depression, which languishes in Hades - a psychiatric hospital - before taking his electric guitar to the charm of the best downtown a jungle. Hans Schavernoch has designed a clever set with images projected on screens and rotating mirrors.

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Exceptional. A word of warning, however, the scenes are very graphic, violent and sexual.

Without spoiling the movie the scenes were like watching a car crash, you know you shouldn’t, but …….. There have been no such scenes in movies before, but never so graphic and brutal. We do not realize that when a woman is attacked, ie what is an attack.

The film is a masterpiece just the realization of 1 / 4 in the film what happened. You already know the conclusion, but you know something bad will happen. I hope that Americans are stupid not to try to make a Hollywood version of it.

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RONET Delon in 1960 and what is not in terms temperamental. In grand style, just part of the movie seems a hunkier version of Duran Duran Rio video and takes RONET tones used by the classics like Adam Clayton in the early 90s.

Quite serious, but also, and the ending screams murder. It can make you feel uncomfortable if you think although on this, but the middle and the end are better than the principle of separation of the final. Like all movies disgusting that it makes you wonder what happened after the last scene, where the story was different, at least in technical terms.

I have not read the book, so we guess. I wish I could have saved the girl.

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I think I have been witness to see this film in the first steps of a new genre films. God knows what would be called? A surreal musical perhaps?

ISN, but the idea of people suddenly bursting into the song and dance routines surrealista anyway? Perhaps Horra soap-opera will be enough?

Maybe not, whatever moniker to hang on this film that s certainly different, but that does not necessarily work either as a piece of cinema. If, like me, who do not like sand, you will find the musical song and dance routines very boring, very quickly segueing between the real action and animated sequences is rather pointless and adds nothing to the film as a spectacle than that with s the initial impact. S Is it possible that some comments on the characters are puppets of circumstance, but it is clear that much anyway.

The act is not surprising, given the topic a bit hysterical at that times.But sa brave stab by the director of the Hearing equally bizarre to do something original and then the mixture of horror, family drama, comedy and music is undoubtedly different. Imagine The Sound of Music re-written by Wes Craven s o Walton led by David Lynch.

The problem is that no longer work well in reality not enough on any level is really memorable, or worthy of repeated viewings. A fine, but anything outside of entertainment to make a song and dance about.

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If you’ve read the summary can not really fault this film. What you get is 9 minutes of exciting, high-octane racing on the Avenue des Champs-lys is, past Place de la Concorde, along the Rue de Rivoli and the dissolution of the street near Place des Tertres Monmartre.

At 9 minutes, this is not suitable for a night of entertainment with gilrfriend on the couch with a bottle of Blossom Hill. Not for our times, whether politically correct, but hey, things were different in the 1970s.

My only complaint is the lack of extras on the DVD. Surely a documentary on the making and the myth of the film would have been nice.

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More stylized junk. I was expecting a decent action movie, but was dissappointed. This does not come close to a film like The Killer.

2 sicarios Ponce in this draft about the people in broad daylight - and most of their trips on foot - walk away on a gentle pace!. No a policeman in sight!

When you come across some policemen who, of course, go out and shoot away even though they have made some 30 odd firearms discharged into them. Once again, I thought the action scenes were poorly done. The only remotely entertaining parts of this film when trying to speak English :-).

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As an Italian I have ever heard of this film by Pasolini, but has been banned in my country for a long time, but I have always heard the critics and other intellectuals Pasolini called ‘genius’, a’ poet ‘. I was just curious to know why all these positive comments, his film was never shown on television. Then, a few years ago, I read the 120 days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.

The book has been very worrying, and thank God the last part is no longer a project. Then I forgot the shock of the book left me, and decided to watch the movie for the sake of culture. I’ve seen twice.

Once alone, hid under my quilt, when the scene is unbarable (ie the scatologic parties), the second time with my sister, and I was hiding under the pillow before the scenes were shown in reality! It was the hardest film I’ve ever seen.

That look cool for young people tortured by the 4 beasts, neither side made, the film is merely raw facts Pasolini. None of the actors is a professional, Pasolini was to have famous actors for their films to people in the street, so the action is false, akward in this contrast with the character of the film.

I do not know if I ever agree with people who ask a poet Pasolini. Indeed, the metaphor is significant, the totalitarianism of the fascist regime in my country has brought so much misery and trouble, but I still think they could have chosen another metaphor, just for the sake of our stomacs!

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Set during the Nazi invasion of Paris, Bon Voyage’s plot revolves around a beautiful French actress, Viviane, played by a of Isabelle Adjani, her childhood friend, the young struggling writer Frederic (Gregori Derangere) that has the blame for the murder committed Viviane, and heavy water, a substance that can make or break the war if it falls into the wrong hands. Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen beautiful and Adjani, among others, give beautiful performances, and actor Peter Coyote is surprisingly good as an American journalist cum Nazi officer, one of the many men who fell at the feet of Viviane.

Although perhaps not as accomplished as director Jean-Paul Rappeneau the previous film Cyrano de Bergerac, Bon Voyage is still a very enjoyable film that satirize a difficult period in the history of France nice. A must, especially if they are Adjani and Depardieu fan.

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500 does not do justice to this amazing film. Possibly the best anime feature ever talks about the infamous Kintaro and for anyone interested in the history of Japan is one of the greatest legends!

(for those unfamiliar do not skip the extras!) The animation is simply divine and perfectly sets the atmosphere, this film has so many beautiful and poetic messages is excellent (also see the waka poems that follow the credits) and there are no words to describe how bad the whole world should see this movie. It really is worth four stars for the horrendous dubbing ( “Master, please pass’?!!) and assuming that the public is already aware of the story, but I’m still giving it 5 stars because it is absolutely a MUST-SEE anime!

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