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India Song (1975)
How does he dare???
It's incredible how people dare to write things like this: " Look, some film has got to the be worst ever. I suggest it may be India Song."... And this is just the beginning! Some viewers (but did he SEE anything???) think that their lack of emotion or thinking is an automatic rule for everyone on earth. I don't care if A, B, or C doesn't recognize Marguerite Duras as one of the great experimenters of all the history of movie making. But I care about the fact that IMDb gives so much evidence to words of pure indifference to the cinema that tries to discuss the obvious ways of representing the world. Why the evidence to a commentary that is only a childish protest of someone who thinks the world ends in his own state of boredom?
Casino Royale (2006)
Not so bad...
Well, let's say it was worth waiting, but... Not so bad entertainment. Not very good film of action and appanage. It was not easy to rebuild the world James Bond, mainly because Pierce Brosnan (and, before him, Roger Moore) had completely destroyed the "good/bad guy" mix from the legendary times of Sean Connery... Well, it must be said that Daniel Craig proves that he can relate with that past and still be true. The film has some very good moments of dialogs, specially in the train, with Craig and Eva Green. What about the Chris Cornell song?... Serious candidate to the title of worst Bond song ever. Who chose that musical mediocrity?
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Clever entertainment
This is an example of very clever entertainment, REALLY entertaining without demanding of audiences to be stupid. This is essential in a time like this, when all sort of mediocre entertainers (?) are promoted as the next big thing... Steven Soderbergh (and is pal George Clooney) is an important personality in the dynamics of Hollywood today, and also inside the independent field. Because that's his strategy: to be all around, not afraid to deal with big AND small budgets, big stars AND completely unknown actors. That's why, since "Sex, Lies and Videotape", he keeps doing "minor" and remarkable movies like "Bubble". I can't wait for "Ocean's Thirteen".
Juventude em Marcha (2006)
Boring?
We can find lots of examples like this. Today, yesterday, all along the history of movie making. Did you know that, in its time, "Citizen Kane" was not exactly recognized? We need movies that really dare to go against the "easy thinking" of blockbusters, Borat and others... movies that some people avoid because they feel... bored. Bored??? Why do people think that their boredom is important for the destiny of the world?... Maybe for the destiny of "their" world. But who cares? This is just one of the greatest movies of 2006, a challenge to look at people and places without the boring mediocrity of reality TV. Yes, boring.
Lá Fora (2004)
A truly universal story
It is a very feminine work. Not only because it has a truly dramatic heroine (Laura / Alexandra Lencastre), but also because it is a movie that shows men (or, at least, the main character, performed by Rogerio Samora) losing the strength and the will to connect with the complexity of the world around.
Perhaps the story and places are very Portuguese, but I felt it like truly universal all of it could happen here, in Spain; in a certain sense, I think it is happening right now in the world of TV and everywhere where money is the main language of communication.
The shooting is always very beautiful (I don't know, but perhaps the cinematographer, Edmundo Diaz, is Spanish). The sound is also very subtle and truly important to define each scene.