VANITY OF EMPTINESS

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Being artistic doesn’t always mean you have made the decent flick. Sometimes, the artistic can be so arrogant that it suffocates decent story. This is just the case with Austrian ”Revanche”, an incredibly dull and slow movie coming from nowhere and leading nowhere.

Nothing is right here. The naïve and empty script, empty long cuts and pretentious acting tend to irritate rather than to suck the viewer inside the revenge story in rural Austria.

”Revanche” is one overprized and vanity-filled flick.

REVANCHE – 2/10

SLOW, BUT DECENT

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Polish laureate for this year’s best foreign-language movie in Kodak theater isn’t a bad movie. It is slow, but it isn’t a bad one. There were better ones (Georgian ”Tangerines” and Spanish ”Divlje priče”), but there were also some worse flicks (Russian ”Leviathan”).

”Ida” is Pawel Pawlikowski'artistic expression in black and white and retro 4:3 format that follows young nun on her journey through inner transformation and exploration of the past time tragedy in the family. There is almost no music throughout the movie and the dialogues are stark. Agneta Trzebukowska is doing fine as the leading role, while the other characters are only sketches in the somehow empty script.

To summarize, ”Ida” is a slow, decent and a bit overprized movie.

IDA – 4/10