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A documentary not necessarily shows the truth, sometimes directors can manipulate facts and statistics to subvert  the reality, just for making entertainment or capturing the viewer’s sympathy.

For sure, the Italian episode is quite far from the actual situation in the country even ...

05/09/2016 - 05:48        Read more
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What happened after the falling of Argentininan dictatorship?

People who worked in the Secret Services became unemployed and tried to continue their job as they could.

Based on the true story of the Puccio family who used kidnapping rich people in order to obtain huge ransomes, the...

04/04/2016 - 11:21        Read more
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... not so bad, it's a good movie to spend one hour...

03/14/2016 - 11:34        Read more
4.5

A wonderful duel that vaguely reminds a spaghetti western: the Emma Dante's film-debut is definitely well built, everything revolves literally around two women that fight for a narrow alley that is not so narrow as they believed.

02/18/2016 - 10:52        Read more
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"It is only when I sense the end of things,/ that I find the courage to speak/ the courage, but not the words" 

This simple sentence ends the documentary revealing the purpose of it.

A nostalgic and beautiful shot of a small village that is gently dying. 

 

 

01/30/2016 - 14:03        Read more
2.5

Not bad, even it's a little bit exasperated in some aspects... Di Caprio could hope in one Oscar nomination.

01/09/2016 - 06:00        Read more
2.5

The saga continues in a nostalgic way never neglecting the audience's  expectations.

01/02/2016 - 05:02        Read more
3.5

The “Russian Ark”, the masterpiece directed by Alexander Sokurov, is a single long sequence that depicts three centuries of Russian history in a remarkable manner.

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12/24/2015 - 07:36        Read more
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An apparently depressing aesthetic hides the recurring brutal Lanthimos’s directing style where roles are intentionally flat and disturbing.

Metaphorically speaking, Alps and Dogtooth show the same cutting edges in a reverse way, letting the viewer disoriented; both of them analyze the...

11/27/2015 - 12:08        Read more
3

Quite predictable but not too bad

10/28/2015 - 03:56        Read more

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