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“I wasnât really sure what to expect from this flick but since I always had a weak spot for François Truffautâs work, I was really eager to check it out. Basically, following the massive critical success of âLe dernier mĂ©troâ, Truffaut came back just a year later with this feature which was” read more
“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Anyway, I always had some mixed feelings about the damned thing. I mean, on one hand, it is one of the very few movies starring Tom Cruise which was slightly more risky than his usual feature” read more
“I wasnât really expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I didnât care much for the damned thing. Seriously, even though I donât mind a decent romantic-comedy from time to time, t” read more
Notes: It turned out to be an extremely minimalistic feature, itâs basically about a young child who wants to buy a goldfish and loses her money and, well, it was pretty much it. It was apparently done on purpose as Jafar Panahi wanted to display that you didnât necessarily need millions of dollars to shoot a movie. Anyway, I always had a weak spot for such minimalistic features and this one was definitely pretty neat. Indeed, the end-result felt like a mix of Italian neorealism (Iâm pretty sure that âLadri di bicicletteâ was a huge influence on this movie) with a nail-biting thriller and this mix worked really well. To be honest, it did feel strange, even quite terrifying, to see such a young kid wandering around in the street on her own, thatâs something you simply donât do in Western countries nowadays (Maybe did we use to do it as well back then 40-50 years ago though?). However, there was one thing that bothered with this movie and it was the fact that this little girl was just so damned annoying. Sure, I know her portrayal was actually accurate, my ex-girlfriend had a young daughter around the same age and she displayed a very similar behavior. Still, it didnât change the fact that her behavior was borderline cringe-inducing, especially when she was endlessly nagging her mother to give her some money to buy some goldfish, which was even more annoying when you think that they already had some perfectly fine goldfishes at home.
“Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this movie (it was even nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award in 2014), I thought I should check it out. Eventually, I thought it was a decent drama but I canât say it really blew me away. I donât know, maybe I have seen already too many ” read more
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“Apparently, this movie was the last one Charles Chaplin made during the silent era and it is yet another flick I have seen many times when I was a kid. Indeed, I remember it very well. At some point, the greatest classics directed by Charles Chaplin were broadcast on one of the French channels and m” read more
“By now, I have seen all the movies directed by Clint Eastwood and, out of all the movies he has directed during his prestigious career, it is easily the one I appreciated the least (yes, even the underwhelming âBlood Workâ was still better than this). It wouldnât go as far as saying that it wa” read more
Notes: In the 90's, Emir Kusturica was one of the most important directors in the world and I was a big fan of his work. Unfortunately, we haven't heard much from him during the 00's and that's too bad. Anyway, back in the 90âs, after making his only US production so far starring no one less than Johnny Depp (itâs called âArizona Dreamâ and it is quite marvelous), Kusturica went back to (ex-)Yugoslavia to make what many consider his magnum opus and, for the second time around, the Serbian director won the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Eventually, even though I did like it at the time (I saw it in the movie theater when it was released), I wasnât exactly blown away. I guess I was just too young at the time (I think I must have been 15-16 years old when I first saw it) and since it is a rather complex feature with many layers, quite frankly, it went a little bit over my head. Still, it is quite an impressive piece of work, a big epic about Yugoslavian history. 
What is it about?
A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.
My verdict:
What I really loved about this show were those 2 great characters Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder, both very well played by Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman. To be honest, the cases they worked on were decent but not really amazing though. Above all, I think it was a poor decision to have their 1st case stretched over 2 seasons and it worked better on the 3rd and 4th season with each with their own case. Still, it is a pretty cool TV-show nonetheless.
Will I watch the following seasons?
Yes, I have watched the whole thing by now.
“To be honest, it has been a while since I saw this flick. In fact, if I recall it correctly, I actually even saw it in the movie theater when it was released. Even though it might seem weird that a 12 year old boy would watch something like this, somehow, it still made sense, at least, to me. Indeed” read more
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“I already saw this movie but since it was ages ago, I thought I might as well check it out again. First of all, even though I consider Terry Gilliam one of the most interesting directors in the world, I have noticed that I have actually sometimes a hard time to really connect with his movies becaus” read more