Archive for the ‘drama’ Category
Färval Falkenberg (Falkenberg Farewell) (2006)
Written by Colin on December 4, 2008 – 2:14 pm -
Swede and slow
This is definitely a film you will either like or you won’t. I found it very hard going for the first half an hour at least - a big investment of time considering I couldn’t see what direction it was taking. Directed by Jesper Ganslandt (whose first feature this is), the story grinds on at a snail’s pace for a good long while - not a lot actually happens, at least by major movie standards.
Tags: David Johnson, Falkenberg Farewell (2006), Färval Falkenberg (2006), Holger Eriksson, Jesper Ganslandt
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Reprise (2006)
Written by James on November 25, 2008 – 5:30 pm -
Back to the future
It’s all looking bright up ahead in Oslo for writer best-friends Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner), in Reprise (2006) from Joachim Trier (Proctor (2002), Still (2001)).
Tags: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eskil Vogt, Espen Klouman-Hoiner, Joachim Trier, Proctor (2002), Reprise (2006), Still (2001), Viktoria Winge
Posted in Norwegian, drama | No Comments »
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Written by James on November 24, 2008 – 9:17 pm -
Songs in the darkness
Here’s a simple question for you - did anyone not cry at this film, which won the European Film Awards Best Film prize in 2000 (as well as the trifling matters of the Palme D’Or and Best Actress at Cannes)? Lars von Trier, together with a performance from Björk that simply defines pathos, takes us into the heart of emotion and reworks the concept of the musical, to boot.
Tags: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, Dancer in the Dark (2000), David Morse, Lars Von Trier, Vincent Paterson
Posted in Denmark, US, drama, musicals, tragedy | No Comments »
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) (2007)
Written by James on November 23, 2008 – 3:55 pm -
Blood money
It’s always a difficult call, making movies about the greatest atrocity in the history of mankind, namely the Shoah (Holocaust). After all, it can be argued, what right do we have, as mere spectators, to be ‘entertained’ by the recounting of events that, quite simply, cast doubt on the very existence of the God worshipped by the Jewish community, including the six million who were slaughtered in the Final Solution?
Tags: Adolf Burger, August Diehl, August Zirner, Best Foreign Language Film, Devid Striesow, Die Fälscher (2007), Karl Markovics, Martin Brambach, Oscars, Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters (2007)
Posted in German, character study, drama, war | No Comments »
Klopka (The Trap) (2007)
Written by James on November 21, 2008 – 7:58 pm -
Life is cheap
Srdan Golubović, director of the critically acclaimed Apsolutnih sto (Absolute Hundred) (2001), here turns his attention to a prosaic, personal nightmare that asks the question: How much is any person’s life worth?
Tags: Absolute Hundred (2001), Apsolutnih sto (2001), Belgrade, Klopka (2007), Marko Djurovic, Melina Pota Koljevic, Miki Manojlovic, Milosevic, Natasa Ninkovic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Nenad Teofilovic, Srdan Golubović, Srdjan Koljevic, The Trap (2007)
Posted in Serbian, drama, psychological, suspense, thriller | No Comments »
La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) (2006)
Written by Colin on October 26, 2008 – 3:42 pm -
Bellisima!
As part of Picturenose’s ongoing commitment to the cream of European cinema, a passion that we share with our sister site European Film Awards Reviews, Colin offers his thoughts on a modern Italian classic…
Tags: Cinema Paradiso (1988), Clara Dossena, Claudia Gerini, Ennio Morricone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Kseniya Rappoport, La Sconosciuta (2006), Michele Placido, The Unknown (2006)
Posted in drama, italian, mystery, thriller | No Comments »
Le silence de Lorna (2008)
Written by James on October 9, 2008 – 4:13 pm -
As promised in our recent article on the European Parliament LUX Cinema Prize, we begin our assessment of the three films up for the gong. A review of Občan Havel (2008) will follow on Picturenose presently, and you can check out Delta (2008) on our sister site, European Film Awards Reviews…
Tags: Arta Dobroshi, Fabrizio Rongione, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jérémie Renier, Le silence de Lorna (2008), Luc Dardenne, Morgan Marinne, Olivier Gourmet
Posted in belgian, drama, french, italian | No Comments »
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