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Dionisius Amendola
10Oct11
A great movie about the art of Cinema. Also, a reflection on Art, Life, Family and the choices that we have to do in life. Amazing.
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filmcapsule
11Feb11
My first Kieslowski film. I was immediately struck by it's naturalness. The simple, sometimes intrusive presence of the camera makes a nice parallel with Filip's camerawork. Jerzy Stuhr also seemed very natural on film and was a compelling lead. The plot with his wife, however, didn't work for me. I was never sold on the motivations for her wild mood swings, and felt the film had to manufacture some drama.
Andhika Eka Buana
18Jun10
thank God, i am always scared that this one could be a tough one for Watkin's War Games to defeat...
House of Leaves
12Jun10
A commentary about Soviet opression of Free Speech, about filmmaking in general, and about the nature of art itself. The shot of the joke with the spoon and his knuckels--directly opposed to the preceeding scene: "What you do is beautiful. People are no longer alive, yet they're still here." No--they're not literally there at all; they're gone. But that's the magic trick of cinema, it's ability to sustain an image, a place, a time, _a life_ for as long as the medium exists. Then there's the spoon joke--a reflection of knuckles resembling a hariy ass made for the benefit of two ladies' laughter. Of course, followed by the film clip, followed by the press- conference. The film starts out with him as amateur. He gains local acceptance, corporate acceptance, then deals in the travails of what that success has brought him. Ultimately his subject becomes himself--his project to document the real leads inwards, just as our journey with the film ends.