> Adventurous, funny, thrilling and shocking! The second movie for me from this director after a beautiful child custody dramedy, 'Everybody in Our Family'. This was totally different, a historical theme that takes place 200 years early to the present. This is a black and white flick that perfectly blends with the timeline of the narration. The Romania's submission for the 2016's Oscars. I have not seen all the foreign movie nominees, but having seen the out of the contest films like this and Brasil's 'The Second Mother', they are a lot better than the actually in the race film, 'A War'. Coming to this movie, I was almost certain that I wasn't going to write a review after knowing about it through the trailer and the synopsis despite good ratings and praised by the critics. Because I felt this must be a boring kind, so was thinking to get over with it. Like there's a saying, don't judge a book by its cover, it happened right here for me with this movie. So this is where I realised after the watch that the Academy Awards was totally wrong for snubbing it. In fact, this was one of the best foreign movies I have seen in the last six months or so. > "When a wise man opens his mouth, open your ear." They might have had a solid reason for that, that I don't know, but my guess is the film's ending. The opening was slow, the dialogues were loud, but sometime foolishly funny and sometimes wisely funny. Overall you must pay close attention, so that you can enjoy jokes. Definitely a wonderful adventure, like any other man hunt films, this was so serious on that affair, but viewers won't realise that till the final scene. A well supported music throughout to tell an incredible tale about two men on the mission who meet different people, land, culture and language. It is 1835, in the Eastern Europe region, Wallachia, the father-son duo from the police force on a trail to track down a runaway slave. They must go beyond their territorial limits to find him. On their way, they came forwards to the people they just met needed help, and vice versa, After the intense search they grab him in the remote place, but his version of the story to flee differs. So what comes later is the final act and a very shocking conclusion. > "Fear is shameful, but healthy. It's God's gift." Not so interested to very into it is something that I was not expected. The reason was obvious it was funnier than I thought. Besides that, I was uncomfortable with the slavery theme. It's turning me off from having a good time and beginning to concern. But that's how the old world was, as it was based on the old documents and texts of the real event. After that horrifying finale, the bold statement from the father to son that goes like this 'God, even looks after worms and we can't look after each other' is what made me think we had come a long way since, yet do everything has changed now? And you know the answer to that. It was not an unusual storyline, I have seen hundreds of other similar films, but it was from the different country, hence different language, culture, comedies, landscapes and different outcome result. Well, this film gets you at with the different moods at the different level of the narration. A fine merges of multiple genre, and yet delivers more than you anticipating. If you are wondering what is the meaning of the title, 'Well Done' or 'Bravo' is the English translation. Low budget movie? But, that's the reason this movie makes a very interesting. Because the 19th century tale and this film that kind feels like made in the early 30s (except the high framerate) pretty unlike to any modern black and white films. Definitely a must see if you're interested in this year's Oscar nominees for the best foreign movies, even though it did not make. 8½/10
When the Boyar (Alexandru Dabija) finds that one of his Gypsy serfs has done a bunk, he employs law keeper "Costandin" (Teodor Corban) to track him down. It seems that the fleeing "Carfin" (Toma Cuzin) had become just a little too friendly with his bosses wife, and so there's a price to be paid! Along the way, we are exposed to some of the vagaries of 19th century Romanian life - a largely peasant existence for most with it's roots steeped in a feudal hierarchy. It's quite an adventure the policeman and his son "Ionita" (Mihai Comanoiu) have as they encounter various communities and their traditions before apprehending and repatriating their quarry. The story itself has a certain inevitability to it, but I don't think that really matters. This is really a much more potent evaluation of a society governed by people who felt themselves worthy of a pat on the back for not whipping their "slaves". Their lordly kindness was seen in terms of them generously feeding and clothing their people as if they were mere chattels - and none more so than those from the Romany community. It's not without it's humour - there are some distinctly dark moments designed to effectively lighten the mood. Even with subtitles, this manages to convey enough of the potency of the dialogue for us to appreciate the evolution in character of "Costantin", his son and develop our own awareness of the established persecution that prevailed. It's an entertaining film, too, with plenty of action going on and it is well worth a watch.
Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island to help improve the lives of its unfortunate inhabitants.
Movie Star Rating : 4 Read More
In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-class gambler meets an elderly man who seems to bring him good luck at the gaming tables. Rather than treasure his friendship and the good fortune it brings, the gambler takes advantage of his friend, and by his actions drives the man to suicide. Unable to reconcile his own mental demons, the gambler wanders through the house of his dead friend, and his experiences there only serve to unsettle his mind more and more and more. In the last reels of the film, the fantasies of the hero's deranged mind take over.
Movie Star Rating : 6.4 Read More
Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine. When a mysterious stranger washes up on shore, secrets buried in deep waters come to light, and she confronts both her past and her future.
Movie Star Rating : 6 Read More
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
Movie Star Rating : 6 Read More
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Movie Star Rating : 6 Read More
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
Movie Star Rating : 5.9 Read More
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Movie Star Rating : 7.1 Read More
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Movie Star Rating : 6.6 Read More
The Dead Dont Hurt 2023 - Movies (May 16th)
The Palace 2023 - Movies (May 16th)
Baghead 2023 - Movies (May 16th)
The Fall Guy 2024 - Movies (May 16th)
The Blackwell Ghost 8 2024 - Movies (May 15th)
Wicked Little Letters 2023 - Movies (May 15th)
The Last Kumite 2024 - Movies (May 15th)
Godzilla x Kong The New Empire 2024 - Movies (May 15th)
We Will Rock You 2024 - Movies (May 15th)
The Garfield Movie 2024 - Movies (May 15th)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024 - Movies (May 14th)
Irenas Vow 2023 - Movies (May 14th)
Sting 2024 - Movies (May 14th)
The Shamrock Spitfire 2024 - Movies (May 14th)
Refuge 2023 - Movies (May 14th)
Chasing Raine 2024 - Movies (May 14th)
Sasquatch Sunset 2024 - Movies (May 14th)
Hit Man 2023 - Movies (May 13th)
Deadbolt 2024 - Movies (May 12th)
Mesterjátszma 2023 - Movies (May 12th)
A Whitewater Romance 2024 - Movies (May 12th)
Taskmaster Portugal - (May 16th)
Sister Boniface Mysteries - (May 16th)
Come Dine with Me- The Professionals - (May 16th)
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun - (May 16th)
Tuttle Twins - (May 16th)
Teen Mom- Family Reunion - (May 16th)
CSI- Miami - (May 16th)
Location, Location, Location - (May 16th)
The Wingfeather Saga - (May 16th)
Garden Rescue - (May 16th)
Money for Nothing - (May 16th)
A Gentleman in Moscow - (May 16th)
Caillou - (May 16th)
Raw Talk - (May 16th)
After Midnight - (May 16th)
Deal or No Deal - (May 16th)
WWE NXT - (May 16th)
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw - (May 16th)
Killer Cases - (May 16th)
Pawn Stars- Best Of - (May 16th)