Simplicity at its best

After Paris, after London, after Barcelona, Woody will soon bring us a postcard from Roma...

I loved "Al Massir" but didn't like "Alexandrie... New York" at all, looked too much like a soap opera to me. He's a talented director I must say, in my opinion, his style is close to italian directors such as Fellini or Moretti (in "Alexandria, again and forever" or "an egyptian story"...).

She is the most beautiful italian actress working today and one of the most talented.

A terrible film. Allen reduces some of the greatest american artists of the XXth century to cliché images. It's as if he thought that the only way talent has to express itself is in clichés, in a picture taken from an ad, probably because that's how his talent expresses itself. Though everything's dull, dialogues are sometimes good but if you already watched another Allen's film, you won't discover anything.

He is probably one of the few most powerful film directors working nowadays and as all great directors, his work on sound is so precise, so meaningful.

I waited a long time to watch this film (since I first had the opportunity to watch it) and I have to say that I was wrong. This film is free, it is sometimes light-hearted, sometimes down-to-earth, sometimes it's very dark, sometimes very clear. In a way, it's the kind of film that is more than a film but the director's life. You can't ignore that, unless you're stupid.

Honoré at his best. I was quite sceptical when I started to watch this film but it's probably his best film. Chiara Mastroianni reveals herself in the character of Lena.

A truly great film about our civilization. Some probably missed the point. They just should hear this sentence Haneke said once in an interview "I love sometimes to slap people in order to wake them up. Just to show them why they watch what they watch".

He's a fascinating director. I don't think that he wants to teach something to the audience. He wants us to question our perception of the films, he wants us to question our perception of good and evil and that's why, he's probably one of the only directors working now that is making films which help us, as citizens, to question our society and improve ourselves.

I can't wait to watch this film. Anybody knows where to find it ?

It looks like Walter Salles wants to make his "Motorcycle Diaries 2". It would be nice if he tried to make films on other subjets. Looks like a pretty picture of idealized youth, beauty, freedom, sex and creativity. I'm not sure that it will be about the Beat Generation, as "Motorcycle diaries" was not about Che Gevara but much more about his idealized picture on teenager t-shirts.

“I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either.” I have two solutions for you girl : - make films for animals or objects (am not sure that they will appreciate). - stop making films, you're not obliged to... Man, what a stupid quote.

She's a great actress.

An essential film. Guzman depicts with obstination how women who search the lost bodies of their relatives, killed under the dictatorship of Pinochet in the giant Atacama desert are doing the same as astronoms who search for stars and the origins of our world and proves that dictatorship never wins as, in this life, as it's said, nothing dies but changes and nothing is ever erased. A true masterpiece.

I think most people think that Godard is more interesting because he is more a formalist but Truffaut has made very intense, beautiful films and amazing screenplays ("The Woman next door", "Adèle H" etc.). The idea of love in his films is higher than in any other films.

It looks like a fairytale for conservative people : the bad, pervert, foreign (is it really a country Poland ? I imagine their thoughts...), jewish, successful film director who has sex the poor white, blond, all-american, catholic girl ? It is a fairytale for people who want to express their conservative and moral views on society, a piece of cake for them.

And it looks like american people are so interested in that case and people who talk about it, the journalists, the judge, people who make documentaries about it. What's their point ? Is it bad to have sex with a minor girl ? Yes. Did he recognize it ? He has been punished for that and nobody should talk about it anymore, thinking how this could hurt the people who were exposed at this trial.

I don't really like this kind of documentary films, they take extracts from "Rosemary's Baby" to illustrate that Polanski could be a pervert and, in fact, they don't explain his personality and even less (if possible) his films : they use his films to still talk about the same old subject. The only positive thing I found in it is that it explains what happened on his trial, but that's all and that's little...

Absolute masterpiece. Antonioni defines here modern cinema at its best and develops between poetry and fear the possible emptiness of our lives. It looks like all the environnement is always acting against Vitti's character (looks humourous that her name in the film is Vittoria), the wind in the trees, the structure of objects, of appartement. Looks like the anti-Malick, as Antonioni seeks emptiness in the world.

A good thriller. Probably the best film made by Clooney, and Gosling is as always amazing.

If she walked into a room, I would probably go "Oh!", one of the most promising and graceful american actress of nowadays.

If it wasn't such a great homage to early cinema, would it be such a great film ? It looks like this concept is what makes the film so great and so interesting... But I can't say that I didn't like it because it's really a lovable and charming film.

I agree with Marta, a very borying film with a very strange morality (like refugees are found in a container after days and days of being here, probably starving and they look like they are in their living-room). Acting is painful. Though, you can't say that it's charmless, it's probably a very overated film and not the best from Mr. Kaurismaki.

Mouret shows not only that he is one of the more subtle directors in french cinema but also that he is the clever and perfect son of directors such as Eric Rohmer or Jacques Rivette.

Though far less powerful than 'Hunger', 'Shame' shows that McQueen is definitely a director to follow, someone who has the mind and eye to become a great film director. He probably chose not the best subject for him, but one of his shots is definitely better than the most of what is done in today cinema.

Definitely a great first film, very impressive. Leïla Kilani is a director to follow

Those who think that the planet and space shots are boring or too long should think about the fact that a filmmaker creates his film with a certain rythm and this one has a very unsual and unorthodox structure. It looks like Malick is just filming the time (life ?) between the scenes... Think about the New York sequence, what story does it tell ??

Probably one of the most complex film I have yet watched. It looks quite difficult for me to express an opinion on it as I should watch it 5 or more times to really see (explore and understand) it.

Can't wait...