The lack of subtlety in writing & directing is a real pity, since the music is pure joy. Plus Galatéa Bellugi proves once more she is one of the 'quiet' youngsters of European art cinema.
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The Outrun 2024
Liked the climactic/anti-climactic finale but Rona(n) deserved a much better, less flashback-bombarded screenplay.
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Bitter Moon 1992
This movie's anti-Titanic. The boat doesn't sink and all references to (true) love turn out to be deceiving illusions. I absolutely loved it.
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Dune 2021
Felt like a mediocre episode in the Star Wars saga and not as the intelligent space opera I hoped it would be. I hate to affirm that a big budget-miniseries could have toppled this rendering of the characters and their respective planet groups. Now Hollywood actors are literally drowning in the sand while imitating and performing the gravitas of dreams, utopias and power motives. Their high hopes fail in credibility *partly* because the built-up of the screenplay is unconvincing (dreams…