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
A look both anthropological and sensitive on the disappearance of traditional life in the Japanese mountains – The dialogues are sparse, but the leitmotifs guide us. Solid camera work
Cast: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
Music by Masamichi Shigeno
Cinematography by Masaki Tamura
Film Editing by Shûichi Kakesu
Cast: Jose Coronado, Hugo Silva, Belén Rueda
Director: Oriol Paulo
Writers: Oriol Paulo (screenplay), Lara Sendim (screenplay)
Music by Sergio Moure
Cinematography by Oscar Faura
Film Editing by Joan Manel Vilaseca
This movie has a somewhat complex structure that lacks transparency.
Cast: Marie Denarnaud, Denis Ménochet, Clémentine Célarié
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Writers: Mélanie Laurent, Morgan Perez
Music: Jonathan Morali
Cinematography: Arnaud Potier
Editing: Guerric Catala
Dying to love, loving to death
Interesting use of landscapes; different sorts of music are superimposed; the screen stays black for quite a while; dialogues are sometimes ‘de-synchronized’…
Director: Mark Penney
Writer: Mark Penney
Actors: Shaun Benson, Eliane Gagnon, Michel Perron
Cinematography: Robert Smith
Editing: Mark Penney
Variation on Groundhog Day. Lots of quality but some weaknesses in the scenario
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Elena Kampouris, Logan Miller, Cynthy Wu, Medalion Rahimi, Jennifer Beals, Kian Lawley, Liv Hewson
Director: Ry Russo-Young
Writer (novel): Lauren Oliver
Writer: Maria Maggenti
Cinematographer: Michael Fimognari
Editor: Joe Landauer
Composer: Adam Taylor
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan Based On The Novel by Russell Banks
Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
Editing: Susan Shipton
At the end of the movie, a Chinese woman says that the Japanese are always in a hurry to die. But dying is not difficult, it’s for the cowards. It’s living that is difficult.
Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirô Tamura (story)
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka
Editing: Akira Suzuki
Good direction and dialogues, weak message, pretentious movie
Cast: Will Smith. Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Michael Peña, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jacob Latimore, Naomie Harris
Director: David Frankel
Writer: Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Editor: Andrew Marcus
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
strong script and direction
A movie essentially focused on male characters, in which women play a subdued role.
An uncommon and powerful representation of how a father experiences the loss of his children somewhat compensates the gender unbalance of the movie.
Interestingly, the music is not intended to fit a particular scene but does include several ones, creating an overarching level of expression that transcends that of the scene itself. In some of the critical passages, the personages talk but the dialogue is not heard, being replaced by the music that links the scene to the previous one.
Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Writer: Kenneth Lonergan
Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Editor: Jennifer Lame
Composer: Lesley Barber