Review: Hollywood (2022)
When is the right time to give up on our dreams, face the music and accept our fate?
When is the right time to give up on our dreams, face the music and accept our fate?
It all starts with a bang, an explosion after which the objects, abstract and concrete, and later the animals and the people move straight to the imaginary camera.
Maybe the apocalypse will look like children’s drawings, mixed with geometrical abstraction done in wax colours over the black background.
‘Bird in the Peninsula’ is simply magnetic
Animated in gentle fashion, with simple, child-like drawings as the founding material, ‘In the Upper Room’ is a proper coming-of-age film that speaks loudly enough to both the younger and grown-up audiences.
The whole film is a collage of amateur home films dating mainly from the 60s and 70s, depicting the things from the ordinary lives of the ordinary people in their so-called free time.
Huang Lili fills the character of Lili with a lot of emotion communicated in a discreet, under-played way, making her also one of the key assets of the film.
Jérôme’s and Maryline’s Heaven is like no other: far from idyllic, it is actually exciting. The same could be said for Chloé Farr’s, Gabrielle Selnet’s and Adam Sillard’s little movie.
‘Metka, Meki’ is a hearty, sympathetic documentary that profits from Metka’s pleasant, but gripping personality and from the intriguing structure imposed by Nika Autor…
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