Movie Review It’s not every film that wins two major awards for acting at a film festival. This one did, in Berlin. The Mercer couple prepare to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their marriage. A week before the celebration, Jeff receives a letter in German saying that a girl’s body has been found in the …
Movie Review There’s a special direction in contemporary European cinema that hasn’t yet been named. Let’s call them tragicomic stories about lonely grumpy old men who find meaning in life through casual encounters with strangers. “Uwe’s Second Life is just one of these. Uwe, in his seventh decade, is angry and discontented all the time, …
Movie Review Starring Alicia Vikander and Keith Harrington, the film is adaptation of Vera Britain’s autobiographical book Testaments of Youth (hence the film can also be found under that title). The year is 1914 – Vera, her brother, her friends – on the threshold of something new and big. She has just started college, she …
Movie Review A single woman and her son live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. She wants for nothing – she tried to live once, but it didn’t work out and she shut herself away in her house. She tries to communicate with the world only through her son. That is until …
Movie Review The protagonist is a priest who considers it his duty to heal his parishioners’ wounds and absolve them of their sins. The drama here revolves around such difficult topics for humanity as the crisis of faith, compassion and, of course, forgiveness. And the whole plot revolves around the fact that in confession one …
Movie Review A young boy who is bullied by his peers on a daily basis, a young couple who have lost their baby and with it the warmth of their relationship, a lonely guy who has virtual sex for money. And what they all have in common is that they are caught in the same …
Movie Review How easily and, worst of all, with gusto, people are prepared to ruin another man’s life – director Thomas Vineberg tells us with his film. Once upon a time, an acquaintance, a psychologist, showed up on his doorstep to follow cases where fantasies replace real memories. He told Vineberg that he should definitely …
Movie Review “Poetry is a beautiful, deep and unpretentious film that won Best Korean film in 2010 and was admired at Cannes. The film’s protagonist, Mia, has three passions in life: a love of pretty clothes, flowers and her grandson. Later, another one will be added to them – poetry and the desire to write …
Movie Review The bartender Jacques is a man with a very complicated character, philosophy and rules of life. But when Lucas, a homeless vagabond who has given up on his life, enters his world, he gradually changes. Hoping to retain his inheritance and considering the boy a worthy successor, he takes him into his care …
Movie Review Of course, this film could be seen as the story of the artist Einar Wegener, who became the first person to have a sex change surgically. But let’s face it, it’s not just Eddie Redmayne who plays first fiddle in the film, stunningly reincarnated as Lily Elbe, but also Alicia Vikander who embodies …
