The message is a bit simplistic, but the personages are appealing.
Cast: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yeo-jeong Yoon
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Writer: Hong Sang-soo
Music: Yong-jin Jeong
Cinematography: Hong-yeol Park
Category Archives: romance,
“Betrayal” (David Hugh Jones, UK 1983)
Inverted structure, great cast, excellent dialogues though a bit too talkative and theatrical
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge
Directed by David Jones
Screenplay by Harold Pinter
Edited by John Bloom
“Boyka Undisputed IV” (Todor Chapkanov, Bulgaria 2016)
Violence justified as a gift of God
Cast: Scott Adkins, Teodora Duhovnikova, Alon Aboutboul
Director: Todor Chapkanov
Writers: Boaz Davidson (story), David N. White
Music: Stephen Edwards
Cinematography: Ivan Vatsov
Editing: Irit Raz
“Tramps” (Adam Leon, USA 2016)
Cast: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel, Mike Birbiglia
Director: Adam Leon
Writer: Adam Leon; (story by) Adam Leon, Jamund Washington
Cinematographer: Ashley Connor
Editor: Morgan Faust, Sara Shaw
Composer: Nicholas Britell
“Carrie Pilby” (Susan Johnson, USA 2016)
All the men in her life disappoint her… but in the end, the movie succeeds in glorifying patriarchism. What a disappointment!
Cast: Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Bayer, Colin O’Donoghue, Jason Ritter, William Moseley, Poorna Jagannathan, Cornelia Guest, Joel Michaely
Director: Susan Johnson
Writer: Kara Holden, based on the novel by Caren Lissner
Cinematographer: Gonzalo Amat
Editor: Phillip J. Bartell
Composer: Michael Penn
“The Sweet Life” (Rob Spera, USA 2016)
So predictable!
Actors: Chris Messina, Abigail Spencer, Brian Shortall
Director: Rob Spera
Writer: Jared Rappaport
Music: Jeff Beal
Cinematography: Gavin Kelly
Editing: Matt Maddox
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Volker Schöndorff, USA 1990)
Strong direction, images and dialogues
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Blanche Baker, Traci Lind
Directed: Volker Schlondorff
Screenplay: Harold Pinter; based On The Novel by Margaret Atwood
Photographed: Igor Luther
Edited: David Ray
Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Gate Of Flesh” (Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1964)
An exceptional movie
A prostitute falls in love for the first time and this new feeling puts her survival strategy at risk. When she asks the man she loves about it, he answers: “How am I supposed to know heavy stuff like that?”
Actors: Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Taijirô Tamura (novel), Gorô Tanada
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine
Editing: Akira Suzuki
“The Last Mistress” (Catherine Breillat, France 2007)
Between love and sexual passion, sexual passion wins in the long run
Cast: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud
Written and directed: Catherine Breillat
Based on the novel by Barbey D’Aurevilly
“One Night” (Minhal Baig, USA 2016)
Good music and message, weak script, personages and dialogues
Actors: Anna Camp, Justin Chatwin, Isabelle Fuhrman
Director: Minhal Baig
Writer: Minhal Baig
Music: Sean Giddings
Cinematography: Jesse M. Feldman
Editing: Jonathan M. Dillon