Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Masumi Tachibana is the only salvageable element of this movie that has no plot to speak of, hardly a story worth mentioning, and the same regarding characters, with the exception of the one played by the aforementioned lovely Masumi.
I liked the music.
A Thai movie adaptation of a hundred years old Italian play.
Six Characters in Search of an Author, the original play that opened in the 1920s must have been something of a sensation. I'm pretty sure there weren't a lot of meta works of fiction back then. Today, audiences have seen it done almost to death, but in 1921 this must have been cutting-edge material.
In any case, the strength of the source shines through. When it's well written it's…
The second half turns into a roll your eyes exercise such is the amount of melodramatic twists thrown at you. It completely sucked my enjoyment of the movie.
The battle of Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo is one of the most fascinating episodes of WWII. Oddly enough it hasn't been portrayed in movies very often, no doubt because the Americans weren't involved in the war yet. They would remain so for another year and a half. Understandably so, Hollywood has a tendency to favor stories where the protagonism belongs to American characters. I'm pretty sure Nolan's project only saw the green light because nowadays the worldwide box office has…