Written By: frenchy on February 22, 2010 No Comment

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Movie: Night And Fog (Ann Hui, 2009, Hong Kong, 122 min.) imdb link

Date: Feb 4, 2010

Rating: ★★★★☆
(nice, sometimes impressively sad & beautiful; got very angry, so that’s a good story well told & filmed)

Plot: Ann Hui’s dark realistic Night & Fog starts at the end of the story, with the brutal murder by a man of his wife and daughters.


Cast: Solid cast, everyone gave a great performance. I started to really hate the male character, so that’s good.


Visuals: Nothing over the top; effective and sober.


Conclusion: I kept wondering after the movie why the guy was such a brute. Wait, hold on.
I couldn’t understand how you can love your family so tenderly on the one hand and on the other be a total brutal dickshit that’d even make a politician seem like an OK person/object.
Very well made movie, totally got me frustrated about human behaviour.

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Written By: frenchy on February 21, 2010 No Comment

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Movie: Rotterdam Classics: New Realism

Date: Feb 3, 2010

Rating: ★★★★☆
(Couldn’t give a flying falafel for NL, but I’m fiercely proud of Rotterdam)

Plot: A programme of short movies centered around the great city of Rotterdam after the Second World War, concentrating on the reconstruction of its port harbour.


Cast: N/A


Visuals: Post-war reconstruction imagery.


Conclusion: Made my whole year to see these movies about Rotterdam. Especially the two-minute silent film of Rotterdam right after the bombardment by Ze Germanz. It was weird because it was hard to find any point of orientation or anything recognisable, everything was ripped away and scorched to Kingdom Come.
But Rotterdam survived, nuff said!

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Written By: frenchy on February 21, 2010 No Comment

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Movie: White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights (Emmett Malloy, 2009, USA, Canada, 92 min.) imdb link

Date: Feb 3, 2010

Rating: ★★★☆☆
(nice movie, some insights into the mysterious & mischievous siblings)

Plot: Concert tour registration of The White Stripes in Canada 2007.


Cast: The White Stripes are excellent actors. Oh, and nice musicians.


Visuals: Usual lo-fi rock documentary approach.


Conclusion: These guys are pure genius, everything they communicate seems to reinforce the mystery/mystique of the White siblings. The closing scene with Miss White shedding tears was very, very.. annoying and possibly insulting. But they really can rock a crowd!

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Written By: frenchy on February 21, 2010 No Comment

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Movie: Symbol (Matsumoto Hitoshi, 2009, Japan, 93 min.) imdb link

Date: Feb 2, 2010

Rating: ★★★★☆
(hilariously weird and funny. Beats Dogtooth in bizarreness!!)

Plot: A sad comic wakes up in a closed white room – or is he still asleep? In the meantime a Mexican wrestler prepares for an important contest.


Cast: Our escaping victim gets extra credit for some hilariously funny slapstick performance.


Visuals: Unbelievably weird, exciting eye candy.


Conclusion: Surreal. I kept laughing out loud (yes, boys and girls, sometimes It’s worth writing out the words) and was constantly amazed by the next bizarre thing happening in the story.
Both stories were strong, but the whole story-telling was so strong that it really wasn’t necessary for both stories to cross paths at the end. Loved it!

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