Stylish, clever, at times poetic, at times too contemplative / Some of the secondary personages are not really correlated to the core of the story
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, Barkhad Abdi, Carla Juri, Robin Wright
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Philip K. Dick, Hampton Fancher, Michael Green
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Editor: Joe Walker
Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
Great dialogues
Cast: Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, Jennifer Warren, Janet Ward, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith, Edward Binns, Susan Clark, James Woods, Melanie Griffith
Directed by Arthur Penn
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Screenplay by Alan Sharp
Photographed by Bruce Surtees
Edited by Dede Allen
Written by Alan Sharp
Some excellent moments alternating with loss of momentum and some ridiculously weak bad guys
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Writer: Max Botkin, Kerry Williamson
Cinematographer: José David Montero
Editor: Martin Stoltz
Composer: Christian Wibe
See Laggies
Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pais, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Alycia Delmore
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Lynn Shelton
How men be afraid of “pussing out”!
Cast: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard
Directed and written by Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Nat Sanders
Slow-moving satire of the corporate world that dehumanize the individual.
A movie depicting our world in a not too far-fetched future, a world that has no advantage to offer for us, humans, a world in which we have to become inhuman to survive.
Among some of the ideas brought forward:
Cast: Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams
Director: Jennifer Phang
Writers: Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang
Music by Timo Chen
Cinematography by Richard Wong
Film Editing by Sean Gillane, Jennifer Phang
The passion a woman feels for another woman makes her abandon all her moral certitudes.
Some weaknesses in the script / Excellent camera work on bodies and movement, when she and he make love (lights on the wall), followed by the two women making love, beautifully underscored by two female trapezists exercising.
Cast: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny
Director: Patricia Rozema
Writer: Patricia Rozema
Music by Lesley Barber
Cinematography by Douglas Koch
Film Editing by Susan Shipton
Good story and realization, average content
Three men: the father, the lover, the raper / Three women: ywo sisters + deceased mother
The “scifi” setting that was perhaps justified when the story was written in 1996 doesn’t convey anything to the plot today.
Cast: Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Callum Keith Rennie, Max Minghella
Director: Patricia Rozema
Based on the novel by Jean Hegland
Writer: Patricia Rozema
Cinematographer: Daniel Grant
Editor: Matthew Hannam
Composer: Max Richter
Actors: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
Director: Stephan Streker
Writer: Stephan Streker
Cinematography by Grimm Vandekerckhove
Film Editing by Jérôme Guiot, Mathilde Muyard
The weak romance story is offset by a good depiction of the historical and political events surrounding the departure of the English from India.
At one moment in the movie, the partition of India is compared to that of Palestine and of Ireland, other British colonies that have suffered greatly, without however digging deeper into the subject.
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Huma Qureshi
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini
Cinematographer: Ben Smithard
Editor: Valerio Bonelli, Victoria Boydell
Composer: A.R. Rahman