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The Dark Tower (2017)
Just read the books
Just read the books and you will understand it. Dark Tower books are a modern cult saga, and it is one that close all the story circles with cohesion and bright, all the loose ends got together as one big shot.
The movie is not a sequel for the books. The movie is a pastiche of buzzwords, disconnected of any sense. The movie is not a part of King's world as The recent footage of "It", for instance. The movie is a big mistake.
Dark Water (2005)
A little dark jewel
"Dark Water" never had one single worthy review here in Brazil. This is odd, because Walter Salles is at least one of the three best Brazilian director's nowadays (the other two are, of course, Bianchi and Meirelles). And what the three have in common? They do political inspired, remarkable real movies. OK, Meirelles had his dream of an international career come true with all the success of "The Constant Gardnerer" and Bianchi approach to the Brazilian national sufferings is too much acid to foreigners. That is only a/mine own point of view. But the fact is that here in Brazil some were expecting a bit more of the candy flavor of "Central Station", some the "hunger esthetic's" of "Behind The Sun", yet others the political idealism of "The Motorcycle Diaries". Those were all Salles' personal projects, somewhat embedded on Brazilian's "Cinema Novo" tradition. Salles has more to offer. Those who saw "!Foreign Land" -- perhaps his masterpiece -- may have noticed all other influences that this well-born, well-educated and incredibly intelligent man is capable of agglutinate on a movie. That is what "Dark Water" really has to show. A South-American director who really knows how to direct actors, to cut his films and to deliver a product that is not as simple or straight as it seems. "Dark Water" is a film of several layers of understanding, a horror movie that happens inside the head of the characters, a game of suspicion and discovering AND a realistic divorce story. Extremely well photographed and cut, led by awesome actors and with a sublime touch of a suffocating music score, "Dark Water" is an achievement yet to be fully appreciated.
Cronicamente Inviável (2000)
"Cronicamente Inviável/Chronically Unfeasible" is Bianchi's strongest movie
"Cronicamente Inviável/Chronically Unfeasible" is Bianchi's strongest movie. Also his best work. From script to cut, from actors to photographing, Bianchi brilliantly directs a drainage of old and open wounds of Brazilian recent History. Somewhat like in "Anna: Ot shesti do vosemnadtsati" (1993) -- classical Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary that deeply relates the end of the Soviet Empire -- Bianchi's movie performs a deep panel of his country society. Unlike "Anna", instead, it is a transversal rather than a longitudinal (timeline) cut. Both of them give the public a wonderful job of information AND opinion. If you are interested in the problems of Third World, specially Brazil, you MUST see this movie.
Quanto Vale ou É por Quilo? (2005)
Bianchi's peculiar vision of Brazil
"Quanto vale ou é por quilo" shows us parallel and fragmentary stories about life in Brazil during slavery period (that ended at 1888) and also during recent times, when non-governmental organizations explore poverty in order to make money.
Unilateral, exaggerated, perhaps intentionally artificial, "Quanto vale..." do not have the well-dosed mix of comedy, irreverence and political denunciation that made "Cronicamente Inviável/Chronically Unfeasible" a cult movie in his country. It lacks rhythm, it lacks more and clearer links between the various stories throughout the movie -- that is too much fragmentary.
But is worthy seeing it. And if you are a Latin-American one MUST see it. Bianchi's unique capability of characterizing Brazilian society's bad habits makes his movies disturbing, electrical and very, very instructive. No one else in Brazil has his guts. His vision of Brazil may not be "the" truth, nor the only way to see that country and its society. His movies dares to show his opinion. But indeed they are yet the best portrait of the moral crisis that corrupts his nation from the "favelas" to the politicians in Brasilia.