Reviews

The great thing about Departures is that it shows us how Daigo finds and nurtures a job that seems to be his calling, while the film as a whole manages to demystify the nMkanshi and show how dignified and important their work is. ...

I particularly enjoyed the moral questions that were posed in Light in the Piazza, and the way Meg seems willing to cross a kind of Rubicon of 'going against accepted morals' by not behaving the way she strictly should, all for the good of Clara - we hope. ...

P aic is a nice kind of fellow who is suddenly rejected by old friend Colm overnight, simply because Colm has decided P aic is too dull to waste time with - he wants to compose music, and leave something tangible behind instead of wasting the rest of his life with idle chit-chat. ...

It's a rare moment in the film where our focus isn't completley on the mysterious deaths and William's search for the truth - and it's one of the film's most memorable scenes. ...

Lowered expectations help a person enjoy a film, but this was an absolute return to form for Robert Altman and a film that feels like it puts forward the best of what he could offer comedy-wise as it gives to us his own personal brand of political satire. ...

The film's musical accompaniment is part of Australian film folklore - and as a whole, the score is one of the greatest in film history. ...

I think Antonioni was thinking a lot about the process he goes through in making a film, and more specifically, a film as a work of art. ...

Handling the cinematography for the usual cinematographer in a very able and interesting manner was Slavko Zalar while the director's future wife, Radojka Ivan evi, did the editing - turning this into a finished product that would later be voted as the second best (in 1999) Croatian film ever made ... ...

Out of all the reviews I read for A Perfect Couple, the most interesting item of observation was from Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker, who talked about Altman "working too fast", and although her comments about this not being a "closely thought-out film" (such a comment seems to show a lack of a... ...

The music powers the feel of the entire film, transporting us to some part of an alternate reality with it's unusual shrill whistles and sharp tones, climaxing during hunts, murders or the discovery of dead bodies - of which there are quite a few, contributing to the film being classified with an 18... ...