domingo, 17 de março de 2024

Halima's Path - Halimin put - (2012)

After the end of the war in Bosnia, Halima, a good-natured peasant woman from a remote Muslim village in Western Bosnia, searches for the remains of her husband and her teenage son, who were taken by Serbian paramilitary forces and executed. Using DNA analysis, the UN Committee for Missing Persons manages to identify the remains of her husband in one of the mass graves, but the Committee still can't identify the remains of her son, since Halima refuses to give a blood sample for DNA testing. There is something that the Committee doesn't know, something that Halima is hiding from others: her beloved son wasn't actually her biological son. The story takes us back two decades ago, during the period of Yugoslavia, where we learn how Halima and her husband became adoptive parents, after fruitless efforts to have a child on their own. Along with that story, we follow Halima's path nowadays while she is searching for the biological mother of her son, the only person who can give a blood sample, to help identify the remains of her adopted son.


Director

Arsen A. Ostojic


Writer

Fedja Isovic


Stars

Alma Prica, Olga Pakalovic, Mijo Jurisic

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/w7mPFcbMZXk

Subs: English and Portuguese

segunda-feira, 11 de março de 2024

Breakfast On Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2005)

A young transwoman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age in the 1970s. She leaves her Irish town, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding. She's taken in by a rock band, falls for the lead singer, has brushes with the IRA, is arrested by the London police, works in a peep show, and poses as a survey researcher for the phone company. Throughout, her nationality and her nature put her at great risk. In her search for her mother, she makes surprising discoveries of friendship and family. But, will she survive?


Director

Neil Jordan

Writers

Neil Jordan and Pat McCabe

Stars

Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Liam Cunningham, Brendan Gleeson.


YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/mEhOB8AIvMI


Subs: English/Portuguese


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domingo, 10 de março de 2024

The Bostonians (James Ivory, 1984)

The story centres around a young woman who becomes involved in speaking out on behalf of women's rights during the close of the 19th century America. The cause is one in which she's encouraged to give her all, it's intensity at times feels almost cult like with the leader demand complete loyalty. In fact so strong is the depth of feeling though that you are left to wonder is this purely a platonic friendship or is there something else going on? The young lady though is highly sought after for her charm and intelligence, one suitor a southern US Civil War veteran with opposite views on the place of men and women in life seeks to win her over, and they are mutually attracted to each other despite their different outlooks on politics.


Director

James Ivory


Writers

Henry James (from book by), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala


Stars

Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy


Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/8GbJAbLb1KA

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quarta-feira, 6 de março de 2024

Wish You Were Here (1987)

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Mature beyond her years because of the untimely death of her mother, Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. And with the wink of an eye or the flash of a thigh, she finds love in all the wrong places, much to the chagrin of her cautious father. When her father's best friend seduces Lynda - and leaves her pregnant and alone - this outwardly bold, inwardly vulnerable girl must find a manner to veer from the course of self-destruction... and face the inevitable undertaking of growing up


Director & Writer

David Leland


Stars

Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford


Subs: English

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/uVuRWLjEi_c

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terça-feira, 5 de março de 2024

The Match Factory Girl (1990)

Iris is a young Finnish girl whose life has no horizon. She works in a match factory and still lives at her parents'. She escapes by reading soppy love stories or by attending a dance. One night, she thinks she has found Prince Charming. But the latter reveals himself a scornful human being who has no consideration for her. Then, she is chased away by her parents and relies on her brother's generosity to put her up. But Iris didn't say her last word and she decides to prepare a plan to have a revenge on the ones who couldn't love her.


Director & Writer

Aki Kaurismäki


Stars

Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari.


Subs: English.

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/wS3eoKcCx5M

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sexta-feira, 1 de março de 2024

Simonal (2018)

A spectacular rise and a hard fall. So it can be resumed the life of Simonal. Phenomenon of popularity in the mid 1960s, Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the dictatorship.


Director

Leonardo Domingues


Stars

Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde, Leandro Hassum


Subs: Portuguese, English.

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/YzjqJGWOXro

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Para o público brasileiro:

Um dos maiores cantores brasileiros de todos os tempos e o primeiro artista cancelado (como é moda atualmente nas redes sociais) pela mídia.

Há um bom documentário sobre ele no YouTube neste link: https://youtu.be/ItVY5xs3_VM Talvez explique melhor que o filme.

Todo estava uma maravilha para Simonal, famoso, fazendo mais de 200 shows por ano (naquele tempo shows não davam tanto dinheiro), até que em 1971 ocorreu uma hecatombe na vida do Simonal, que depois disso, nunca mais se recuperou até sua morte cerca de 29 anos depois.

Seu contador disse a ele que Simonal Produções estava falida, quebrada. Simonal faturava muito, mas também gastava exageradamente. Até hoje, não consigo entender por que Simonal não pediu para seu contador mostrar detalhadamente o os motivos pelos quais ele estaria quebrado. E por que seu contador não fez questão de insistir em explicar a Simonal o motivo pelo qual ele dizia que o cantor estava quebrado?

Simonal não entendeu e achou que seu contador estava lhe passando a perna. Ele tinha alguns policiais amigos, que eram do DOPS, o Departamento de Ordem e Política Social, criado pelo Estado Novo na década de 20 e depois utilizado pela Ditadura Militar pós 64, para ser um órgão de vigilância contra subversivos ao regime. O que era para ser um leve pressão sobre o contador para ele confessar, acabou indo para tortura.

Depois disso, como pode ser visto no vídeo, tudo degringolou e Simonal acabou ficando com pecha de delator, de alcagueta.

Na minha opinião, a mídia acabou crucificando Simonal, embora ele tenha cometido um grande erro. O cantor, ao final da vida, confessou que errou, mas jamais delatou alguém. Eu também acho que ele não delatou ninguém. Tudo foi uma história mal contada e mal compreendida. O Simonal queria fazer seus shows, ganhar muito dinheiro e gastar muito dinheiro. É isso que ele queria. Com todos os seus shows, ele não teria tempo para ficar delatando alguém. Todos os artistas se queixavam da ditadura, mas não tinham vocação para promover atos subversivos.

quarta-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2024

Little Fish (2005)

In Sydney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop, an ex-heroin addict whose been clean for four years. She is trying to raise $40,000 to buy a shop for computer games next door to the rental and to become partner of her boss; but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boyfriend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall for Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost a leg. When Ray and Jonny associate with Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business during the weekend.


Director

Rowan Woods


Stars

Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving


Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/h78Cj6nVhpY

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terça-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2024

American Friends (1991)

Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both of the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.


Director

Tristram Powell

Writers

Michael Palin, Tristram Powell

Stars

Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina, Susan Denaker.


Music by Georges Delerue

Subtitles: English

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/n6KW_52b8HI

segunda-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2024

Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) - 1978

After a man is shot dead in his seat during a matinee showing of a Spaghetti Western, the police prevent everyone inside the cinema from leaving in an effort to nab the culprit. Director Giuliano Montaldo Stars Giovanni Di Benedetto, Umberto Gradi, Elisabetta Virgili A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968) The characters watch this movie in the cinema theater. Subtitles: English

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/HskTapXZzzw

domingo, 25 de fevereiro de 2024

Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand) - 2004

On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.


Director & Writer

Bahman Ghobadi


Stars

Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal


Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/mYjbf-eECd0

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Manto (Nandiata Das) - 2018

The film follows the most tumultuous four years in the life of Manto and that of the two countries he inhabits - India and Pakistan. In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings. His increasing alcoholism leads him into a downward spiral. Through all of this, he continues to write prolifically, without dilution. This is the tale of two emerging nations, two faltering cities, and one man who tries to make sense of it all.


Director & Writer

Nandita Das


Stars

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Tahir Raj Bhasin


Subs: English,

LINK  TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://youtu.be/tGnlVher8_I

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Halima's Path - Halimin put - (2012)

After the end of the war in Bosnia, Halima, a good-natured peasant woman from a remote Muslim village in Western Bosnia, searches for the re...