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Reviews
Massoud, l'Afghan (1998)
Kabul at the end of the world
The blindness of history and war. A movie that is a witness of the bad conscience of the occidental countries, of their guilty absence, of their suspicious economies, of their stupid and masochist politics. But chiefly this movie is a private meditation on the meaning of witness with a camera in a world where the images have became the fetish of the Affluent Society, with no sense, with no dignity. This movie talks about heroism as a very ordinary fact, without rhetoric, without exaltation. Massoud is dead and this movie has became a film for the memory. It leaves an unwanted sense of tribute, a deep sense of sadness.
Ba wang bie ji (1993)
A tragedy of art, life and history
The beauty of this movie is objective and absolute. Farewell my concubine is an example of how much a movie opera can be still close to the spirit of classical tragedy. The hidden tissue of art and life covering the characters reveals at the end the obscene and terrible relation between destiny and our choices. The whole experience of all the characters is intimately joined to the ruinous becoming of history and every single event contributes to give to the recurrent scenes a new and different meaning. So the representation is really complete holding into a more tight catch life and history, theatre and truth.