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Proini peripolos (1987)
Beautiful monologues in a postapocalyptic landscape
A woman navigates through a deserted city in a post-apocalyptic world: she remembers nothing about who she is or what happened. All she knows is she needs to keep walking. It's not clear what caused humanity to get to this point. She fights off enemies who try to kill her, she steals all the resources she can find and all this while we listen to a beautiful hazy internal monologue which is almost poetic.
She then meets a man and forces him to help her get out of the city. He doesn't remember anything either: only that he must kill everyone he finds that is trying to survive. He continues the beautiful monologue while being lost himself. Together they struggle to survive, remember and find meaning in this.
I liked how the film didn't follow the usual commercial line for post apocalyptic and sci fi movies. It left a lot for the viewer to interpret, the action was relatively slow and there weren't a lot of characters. At some points though, I wish the plot moved a little faster.
Overall a really good movie that I suggest to anyone.
Uno para todos (2020)
A beautiful story about forgiveness
A very warm and sweet film about love, hate and forgiveness. This was really good, and it made me very emotional. I recommend this to people looking for a film on human emotions, especially focused on children, who can be more extreme in their emotions, but in the end long for love and acceptance.
Sedmikrásky (1966)
Visual masterpiece, didn't quite get the plot
This was the most pleasurable thing I've ever watched. The scenes were beautifully put together. The style changed from black and white to sepia to colourful, sometimes with a blueish tint, sometime with other colours. I loved the saccadic camera movements that matched certain sounds, e.g. a phone ringing. The actresses' styling (clothes, hair, makeup) was also beautiful. The music was very good (e.g. an epic battle kind of piece of music during the cake fight between the girls).
I liked the fact that the plot's point was to explore how the girls' reaction to the world's "badness" will end. But there were certain points that I didn't quite understand. I didn't really like how the girls sometimes spoke in a robotic manner, or how they seemed too naive and silly. Maybe that was the point: perfection isn't art anyway.
I appreciate the fact that the director (Vera Chytilova) made this film in a time when women didn't have the freedom they have today. One of the main themes in the film is women breaking the barriers of the society they live in, and the rules dictating their behaviour. It really is emblematic in that sense.
Overall I really enjoyed watching this film, but I didn't get where the plot was going, and where it actually went, plus the details I mentioned. But I would recommend it to anyone.
Ocean's Eight (2018)
Not as good as I expected but not bad either
Despite the big names (Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter etc), I didn't enjoy this film as much I thought I would. Maybe Ocean's Eleven made me have big expectations for it.
The movie had a lot of bad cliches, e.g. the enemy can be easily convinced so that the heroes can get what they want, Daphne Kluger joins the other women not for the money but simply because she needs the company, the trope with avoiding the lasers etc. The plot moved too smoothly and I didn't worry too much about the protagonists' fate, since there seemed to be no ups and downs, and all problems were resolved too quickly. It's not that the plot wasn't clever, but it seemed to get too straightforward at some points.
The acting was good, and so was the music. It wasn't a bad movie overall, but I wouldn't really watch it again either.
Anoihti epistoli (1967)
"Braveness is a privilege; either of the very rich or of the hungry."
A film with meaning, showing the small and unimportant lives of ordinary people in Greece in the 60's, and a man's longing for something greater. The hero's life is changed forever when he meets Maria, a teacher who spends her free evenings teaching uneducated workers in order to improve their lives. She thinks the first step to correcting the situation in Greece (where at the time, as she says, 47% of adults didn't finish primary school) is education for all. Dimitris, the main character, finds meaning in their relationship and the way she sees things. A really good film with beautiful scenes, dialogue and music, that once got censored by the Greek junta.
I roda (1964)
"Starring: a wheel"
A wheel breaks free and wanders around the Athenian urban landscape in the 60s. With it we see from a distance the ordinary life of the people of Athens, their oddities, their habits and their neurotic way of living. A quite unusual narrative for a Greek 60's film, this was a humorus depiction of the fast urbanization of the Greek cityscape and its effects on people. Something along the lines of "in the future everyone will have a fridge in their home" adds a sweet note of nostalgia. The music was very good too.