In the new Julia Roberts Film, a drug returns addict son to his family. Someone is tilting at a Feast, a dance group of drugs in the Punch bowl. A Film shows how Brecht wanted to make from the three penny Opera movie. In the new Peter Jackson-production cities at war on wheels. A documentary shows the life of Argentine Mennonites. A Dane is teaching dear children in Greenland, to be a farmer. Hirokazu Kore-edas new Film won at Cannes, the Palme d’or. An animated film shows the different incarnations of Spider-Man.
Ben is BackVon Peter Hedges, USA, 2018; 103 min. the
Drama
On Christmas eve, suddenly the 19-year-old Ben (Lucas Hedges), in front of the door. He does not want to withdrawal, against the advice of his therapist, the holidays in the drugs, but the rest of the family. His mother (Julia Roberts) is happy, the Rest of the family Worries.
The Film is somewhat reminiscent of Dickens ‘ Christmas story with the three ghosts. But instead of fictitious ghosts, Ben is very real from the past. His mother and he are forced to deal with some painful facts to confront in the hope of a Happy ending. (msw)
Ben (Lucas Hedges), to face his family with painful facts on Christmas eve. Video: YouTube/Ascot elite
ClimaxVon Gaspar Noé, F/B in 2018; 97 min. the
Horror.
to celebrate the end of your samples, a dance company in 1996 in a Banquet hall somewhere in France. The mood shifts, as the visitors realize upset that someone drug has given in to the Sangria Bowl.
As a specialist for the bad Trip to Gaspar Noé (“Enter the Void”), this is one night to escalate: He has hired 20 dancers — you krumpen, voguen dance and Electro — and allows you to 90s Techno to improvise and go at each other. Finally, Noé makes the delirirende inside perspective and creates a movie from motion, and energy (blu)
dancers, Vinyl, and a Sangria cause unexpected Party. Vinyl: YouTube/Xenix Film
Mackie Messer: Brecht’s DreigroschenfilmVon Joachim A. Lang, D in 2018; 136 min.
at the end of the 20s: The “three penny Opera” is such a success that a production company buys the movie rights. However, while Brecht (Lars Eidinger) is a political movie in the sense, want to be the producers of mere entertainment. It comes to the process. Meanwhile, the Nazis take Power.
In the trial, Brecht to do, mixed in this Film reality and Theater, musical numbers with archive material, and constantly characters speak to the audience. This is sometimes clever, but often flat. And if in such a high gloss product, artistic integrity, or capital-ISM criticism, to be negotiated, seems unreflective of the arg. (ggs)
“If you want to see something that makes sense, you need to go to the urinal”: Brecht’s three penny movie. Video: YouTube/the Wild Bunch Germany
Mortal EnginesVon Christian Rivers, Neus/USA 2018; 128 min.
A world war to wipe out the mankind. The remaining London is a giant scrap heap, which runs on huge wheels through the post-apocalyptic Wasteland, and smaller mobile cities chasing their resources incorporate. A young historian (Tom Natsworthy) and a mysterious avenger (Hera Hilmar), brake London.
released Once, rolling the English everything flat: What sounds like a fantastic wacky-Brexit-comment, unfortunately, develops the child’s Blockbuster, in which a nerve margins-killing a young man and a go-getter young woman to save the world together. The Steampunk Aesthetic, but debutant Christian Rivers, a special effects Guru (“King Kong has gets”), great.(ase)
the war of the cities: A surreal spectacle in “Mortal Engines”. Video: YouTube/Universal Pictures Switzerland
Without this World, Nora Fingscheidt, D, 2017; 115 min. the
documentary film
the Mennonites deny the baptism of children, have neither the power connectors nor telephone, nor radio. For them, there are two kinds of people: Mennonites and world people. A 700-member Church in Argentina has allowed a film crew to document two months of her life.
Beautiful wide-screen images created by camera man Yunus Roy Imer. And you can feel the Effort of the Director to understand these people, who are convinced to be God then the next, if you have — and if you go in the city, very comfortable phones to use and also television. (bod)
Between foreclosure and change: “Without this world,” documented the lives of the Mennonites. Video: YouTube/looknowfilm
A Polar YearVon Samuel Collardey, F 2018; 94 min. the
Drama
A young Dane does not want to take over the farm, since eight generations of his family. Therefore, he pulls away as far as possible, and takes over as the teacher of a small class in a tiny village in Greenland. Laden with prejudice, he meets the surprisingly pleasant reality, and after initial difficulties, deep friendships.
In the Film, reality and fiction are blurred, because there are no actors, but real people, the play itself, but a script to follow. This approach allows it to tell a story that acts as a feature film, but in its detail the rich life world of the Inuit maps (msw)
a deep insight into the life of the Inuit in” A Polar Year”. Video: YouTube/frenetic films
ShopliftersVon Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jap 2018; 121 min. the
Drama
Two very talented shoplifters, father and son, as it seems, stumbling in the night cold on a miserably before freezing little girl who locked his parents seem. And take it with you out of pity, in the heat of their own poor, but seems to be a loving family; and in the following months, creates something that looks like a gentle life in harmony.
Always it and seems to be in this narrative, as something to be — before it is then completely different. This can be the magic and mystery of Kore-edas Film. So to speak, the fine-woven realistic poetry. Palme d’or in Cannes. (csr)
father and son, two shoplifters, a seems to be a homeless girl into their family. Video: YouTube/Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseVon Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, USA 2018; 105 min.
Animation
A villain is a machine build, which opens a gate to other dimensions. Due to a malfunction, you get several incarnations of Spider-Man from various parallel universes. For example, Spider-Man Noir, the only-in-black-and-white, or Spider-Ham — a Cartoon pig in a hero costume. With these figures, a Teenager who has just been bitten by a radioactive spider ally.
The Spider-Man live action films were always intended for a wide audience and let the fingers of the more ridiculous elements of the Comics. This celebrates, but this animated film, with irony. A crazy Fun. (ggs)
Suddenly, quite a lot: Spider-Man gets support from the Paralleluniersen. Video: YouTube/Sony Pictures Releasing, Switzerland (Züritipp)
Created: 12.12.2018, 17:07 PM
