Besides the difficulties Mary has in her village for being pregnant without having ‘known a man’, nothing in this movie brings any inspiration to a story that certainly needs a more critical approach. The church music sinks the movie irredeemably.
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Mike Rich
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography by Elliot Davis
Film Editing by Robert K. Lambert, Stuart Levy
Good music, but lacks unity
Cast: Emily Browning, Xavier Samuel, Cam Gigandet, Dawn Olivieri, Frances Fisher, Thomas Dekker, Marlene Forte, Kennedy Waite, Kimiko Gelman, Christopher Craven
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Catherine Hardwicke, Arty Nelson
Music by Nick Launay, Ming Vauz
Cinematography by Daniel Moder
Film Editing by Julia Wong
A movie that shows how humor has the power to lighten dramatic events
A world of women with supportive men
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Jacqueline Bisset
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay: Morwenna Banks
Cinematography: Elliot Davis
Editor: Philip J. Bartell
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Cast: Anne Dorval, Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Kool Shen, Alice Taglioni, Bouli Lanners, Dominique Blanc, Monia Chokri, Finnegan Oldfield, Théo Cholbi, Gabin Verdet
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Writer (novel): Maylis De Kerangal
Writer: Katell Quillévéré, Gilles Taurand
Cinematographer: Tom Harari
Editor: Thomas Marchand
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
No context, just the present! 5 personages, 3 languages: how to understand each other, in time of peace and during conflicts.
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakam
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writers: Kyôko Inukai (screenplay), Naomi Kawase (screenplay)
Cinematography by Caroline Champetier
Film Editing by Dominique Auvray, Yûsuke Kaneko, Naomi Kawase
” BIG APPLE BIG DREAMS” – Excellent first feature
Cast: Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little, Nicholas Tucci, Larry Fessenden
Screenplay: Ana Asensio
Director: Ana Asensio
Director of Photography: Noah Greenberg
Music by Jeffery Alan Jones
Film Editing by Carl Ambrose, Francisco Bello
Actors: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Writer: Maggie Greenwald
Music by David Mansfield
Cinematography by Declan Quinn
Film Editing by Keith Reamer
Structure, personages, scarce dialogues with the story being told through the images, blending of anthropological veracity and sensitivity are very similar to those found in Moe No Suzaku.
Cast: Kohei Fukungaga, Yuka Hyyoudo, Naomi Kawase
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
Music by Ua
Cinematography by Yutaka Yamazaki
Film Editing by Shôtarô Anraku, Naomi Kawase, Tomoh Sanjo
Cast: Rade Serbedzija, Morgan Freeman, Robert Forster
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Ted Humphrey
Music by Atli Örvarsson
Cinematography by Julio Macat
Film Editing by Martin Nicholson
Similar in its content to A United Kingdom (2016), Belle shows in a dramatic and intelligent way the web of social constraints that ensue from racial segregation (horizontal) and hierarchical stratification and dominance (vertical inequalities). Furthermore, in both movies, love and politics are cleverly intertwined. And to make matters still more enjoyable, their main female characters are and remain intelligent and substantial throughout the movie.
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Sarah Gadon, Sam Reid, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Tom Felton, Penelope Wilton
Director: Amma Asante
Screenplay: Misan Sagay
Cinematography: Ben Smithard
Music: Rachel Portman
Film Editing: Victoria Boydell, Pia Di Ciaula