ART OF DARKNESS

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Alejandro Gonzales innaritu is the man of the cinema. Every single one of his flicks is a small masterpiece and ”Biutiful” doesn’t fail to achieve the greatness of its predecessors.

This time, the main role goes to the back streets of Barcelona and its inhabitants, Chinese and African immigrants fighting for survival. Amongst them is the terminally ill man (fantastic Javier Bardem) with the rare gift of seeing the dead ones before they go to the heavens.

Photography is just plain amazing and as with every good Mexican director (Del Torro, Cuaron), moments of horror are there as well. Script is just too heavy for a reiterative watching of this quality flick.

”Biutiful” is just another one of those Innaritu’s ”biutiful” movies.

BIUTIFUL - 8/10

CLASSIC DOGMA

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Lars von Trier as a director is unwatchable, but his ”Dogma 95” movement gave us some really interesting Danish flicks. Those movies may not be good in a classical manner, but they sure aren’t boring.

Story about an unorthodox birthday celebration is a classical „dogmatic” indie motion picture. Camera is shaking all the way through, lighting is natural and overall resources are low budgetary. All the significant Danish actors/actresses of the past decade are there and they are have decent roles.

Story has a superb idea, but somehow manages to wander off during the course of action. This is surely also due to social norms of the Scandinavian countries that tend to differ significantly from the rest of Europe and USA.

„Bizarre” is the word for this one, but maybe just a bit too much.

FESTEN – 5/10