Most of the time, films don’t need extravagant and excessively explicit stories to expose the darkness that constantly surrounds human beings. The deepest mysteries and fissures of society can be unleashed without excessive resources. Sometimes, the right formula can be achieved with a tiny house and a handful of masterfully sculpted characters. These humble scenarios …
Director: Wim Wenders Paris, Texas (1984) is one of those rare films that captivates from the very first shots, leaving a strange and uneasy feeling that constantly attaches to us. The story is masterfully conceived by German filmmaker Wim Wenders and magnificently photographed by Robby Müller in the desert of Arizona. Ry Cooder‘s acoustic guitar …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Many directors have portrayed the near or distant future in their films. Some have done it with optimism, others with pessimism, but very few have dared to analyze the social, political and catastrophic repercussions of a collapsed present that is totally devoid of a promising future. Apparently, the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón …
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Contemporary Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is inclined to create worlds of his own, worlds in which the viewer feels like a complete stranger that gradually interacts with the environment, until a complete and fascinating immersion occurs. In his magnum opus Dogtooth (2009), Lanthimos invited us into a hermetic universe filled with its …
“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.” Krzysztof Kieślowski Some films are completely blissful and ethereal, their souls float through the environment, their images fade between dreamy and fleeting sensations, their substance is destined to overcome the borders of time and space. …
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche For those who write, watching a film by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke requires preparation: sitting down, meditating for a …
Darren Aronofsky has an ability to delve into the universe of complex themes and create stories that are packed with metaphors and symbolism. His darkly attractive style of lucid despondency and furious intentions has made his cinema one of the most uniquely inspiring and eclectic in contemporary film. Mother! (2017), reached a new and fresh …
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of Russia’s most fierce and unique contemporary directors. Through acclaimed films like The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007) and Elena (2001), he has used a series of blissful audiovisual and thematic ingredients: the movement of a camera that embraces an imposing stage, the role of nature and religion …
Director: Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman, born in 1918 and raised in the town of Uppsala in Sweden, was the son of a nurse and a strict Lutheran minister and chaplain. The brilliant director grew up in a highly religious universe, but later stated that his faith vanished at the age of eight. Bergman wrote in …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Throughout the history of cinema, some of the most acclaimed directors have given in to the temptation of capturing their childhood memories on celluloid. That’s the case with François Truffaut and his The 400 Blows (1959), Ingmar Bergman with Fanny and Alexander (1982) or Federico Fellini with Amarcord (1973). In 2018, the …
