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'I wish' (2011)

Dir.: Hirokazu Kore-eda


A heartbreakingly beautiful film about family (as usual from Kore-eda - the master of family drama) and the tale of 2 brothers separated by 'divorce'. Lots of humour and touching moments.

The entire film is carried by the performances of the children. It is quite something how Kore-eda gets these kids to do these things on camera. Incredible. The film has magical moments and really captures the innocence and naivety of youth - but also has a pay off that shows how kids come to terms with reality. I may have shed a tear or 2 at the end. Probably a new entry in my top 50 films of all time.




Le Haine - 4/10
Pretty dumb. Punks acting like 5-year olds throughout the entire 97 minutes, which seems to be on a 5-minute loop.
I remember it being good though.



broken flowers - 2005


uncertainty is the word to sum up this movie
jarmusch showing his music repertoire with a nice ethiopian music
the typical jarmusch, unconcern about the plot, all about the details
jarmusch along side with his "teacher" wim wenders are masters on filming cars
i'd like to know how he filmed those first person car scenes
You liked the film more than I did, Joao. To my taste the picture was even more boring and pointless than was Jarmusch's Paterson.

It was not void of pluses. The female characters were first rate, and provided some enjoyable vignettes. But Murray slept-walked through his part, with so many instances of sitting in silence that I couldn't believe he stayed awake. The few examples of his "dead pan" humor were swamped by the puzzling masking of much of his life. His character as presented could never have been a ladies' man. Years ago he was a "Don Juan". Now he is dumped by the current girlfriend. He may have a son. That's it. The minor interest in learning who his son might be is left to drift off with no denouement. The film could have ended in any number of reasonable ways. Jarmusch managed to avoid all of those..

The music was enjoyable, almost all of it from a album by "Ethio-jazz" ethno-music composer, Mulatu Astatke. In fact the album provided practically the entire music score. They saved some money there!

The drivers of the attraction to this film were Murray's reputation as a comedian, and Jarmusch's as a director. But neither must have worked too hard in this movie.

It always amazes me when a film or character attempts to be "hip" or interesting by simply being silent or unemotional. That approach may work 1 in 10 times. IMO this wasn't one of them.

~Doc



Le Haine - 4/10
Pretty dumb. Punks acting like 5-year olds throughout the entire 97 minutes, which seems to be on a 5-minute loop.
Didn't you enjoy Cassell's performance? Didn't you enjoy that amazing dolly shot? Didn't you enjoy the whole disaffected youth portrayal ? It perfectly sums up the broken fringes of the Paris suburbs.

4 out of 10 is veryharsh. I'd give it 8 at least.





...It was shockingly non-violent for a nearly 3 hour film, and so much of it was very un-Tarantino (at least un-Tarantino post-Jackie Brown) - which was totally fine with me. It absolutely luxuriated in it's mythic 1969 story and world-building and I was all in for it. Brad Pitt stole the film, this is the absolute best he’s been since Fight Club. The tension building was super effective, and I appreciated how it wasn't completely dark or serious, it felt wholesome by the end, even a bit melancholy and sad (makes you ponder on what could’ve been). It kinda felt like a more darker and serious, grounded iteration of La La Land without any musical numbers (spoilers I guess if you expected any musical numbers?)

WARNING: "Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood" spoilers below
But by taking the Sharon Tate murder, which we dreaded coming, and flipping it on its head and making it Hollywood mythology, I think kept it from being too exploitative. Which it could have easily been had he decided to portray what actually happened. The midnight screening audience I attended absolutely lost it when Cliff was bashing one of the Manson killer's heads over and over.

I had zero plans of watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I'm not a fan of Tarantino's movies and suspected this one would be a ****fest of stupidity...But it sounds pretty good based on your review, so you've convinced me! I'll watch it.



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Didn't you enjoy Cassell's performance? Didn't you enjoy that amazing dolly shot? Didn't you enjoy the whole disaffected youth portrayal ? It perfectly sums up the broken fringes of the Paris suburbs.

4 out of 10 is veryharsh. I'd give it 8 at least.
To answer the first three questions. No.


My rating was meant to be harsh. I thought it was awful.



You liked the film more than I did, Joao. To my taste the picture was even more boring and pointless than was Jarmusch's Paterson.

It was not void of pluses. The female characters were first rate, and provided some enjoyable vignettes. But Murray slept-walked through his part, with so many instances of sitting in silence that I couldn't believe he stayed awake. The few examples of his "dead pan" humor were swamped by the puzzling masking of much of his life. His character as presented could never have been a ladies' man. Years ago he was a "Don Juan". Now he is dumped by the current girlfriend. He may have a son. That's it. The minor interest in learning who his son might be is left to drift off with no denouement. The film could have ended in any number of reasonable ways. Jarmusch managed to avoid all of those..

The music was enjoyable, almost all of it from a album by "Ethio-jazz" ethno-music composer, Mulatu Astatke. In fact the album provided practically the entire music score. They saved some money there!

The drivers of the attraction to this film were Murray's reputation as a comedian, and Jarmusch's as a director. But neither must have worked too hard in this movie.

It always amazes me when a film or character attempts to be "hip" or interesting by simply being silent or unemotional. That approach may work 1 in 10 times. IMO this wasn't one of them.

~Doc
to be honest i didn't liked that much, i'd probably rate it 3/5 now
i agree that murray didn't seem to be a ladies man, like his presented, but i'm not a specialist
i can understand why jim wanted murray to be silent much of the movie,
he wanted the audience to pay attention to the visual details instead of the unimportant narrative
by the end of the movie, you could say everyone that is shown there could have written the letter
i understand why jim ended the movie that way, i'd end it the same way, like i said, the uncertainty
i don't think jim tried to be "hip", he became famous from battling classic hollywood conceptions
if you pay attention he made entire movies about scenes the main stream movies neglect
he makes special efforts to end movies this way, because the plot is not much of a importance to him



coffee and cigarettes - 2003


made the absurd and futile a comedy, jim made a entire movie out of the royal with cheese, even worse
he wasn't afraid of the mia wallace uncomfortable silent moments, damn! i woke with pulp fiction in me,
anyway, they are real, and jim wanted to make real conversations, even if they don't make much sense,
which end up having sense, because they might lack sense for a movie dialogue but they're the reality
some comedy i could laugh out, like the jim and tom scene, hilarious, others were a subtle comedy,
like when you laugh at the absurdities you do or once did, because they are true and genuine, but stupid



broken flowers - 2005


uncertainty is the word to sum up this movie
jarmusch showing his music repertoire with a nice ethiopian music
the typical jarmusch, unconcern about the plot, all about the details
jarmusch along side with his "teacher" wim wenders are masters on filming cars
i'd like to know how he filmed those first person car scenes
I watched this film when I first joined "Lovefilm"... thought it had its charm (provided by Murray) and a good tale, I'd rate exactly the same as you Joaoa.





Interesting how naive Snowden was in this movie: Guy goes to work in CIA, notices that they spy on people, and gets outraged about it and betrays them. At least it had the world's greatest living actor, Nicolas Cage, in it.

7/10