Powerful story where Bergman juxtaposes two different ways to live: opening yourself to the world and accepting its richness along with injustices, or closing yourself out and trying to create your own reality.
Mysterious and sometimes terrifying movie about people facing tragedy and their psychological journey in attempt to overcome it and face the dark, cruel side of nature.
Magical movie that immerse you into a bright summer of a mischievous 6-year-old girl. Through her day-to-day life spent with friends and her single mother we get a glimpse at hardships and struggles of families living on a brink of poverty just outside Disneyland.
This time PTA examines an unhealthy relationship between an artist and his muse. The whole movie is like a psychological dance between two main characters where they are exploring the boundaries and hidden desires of each other. While it is meticulously directed, beautifully shot and well acted, sometimes actions and motivations of characters left me absolutely confused.
Once more Woody Allen returns to one of his favourite themes of moral choice standing in the way of love. It doesn't offer anything new to director's worldview, but will take you on a shiny and humorous ride.
In this original piece of cinema director gives us his view on a conflict introduced by greek tragedies thousands of years ago - a conflict between a man and his fate.
While not reaching the high bar, set by first Alien movies, “Resurrection” still is an interesting and entertaining film that develops themes introduced in the franchise.
It’s beautiful shot and atmospheric fairy tale intended for adults. The problem is that other than explicit scenes of violence and sex everything in this movie from characters to theme development stays on a level of a children’s story.
"Aliens" bears little resemblance to its 1979 predecessor, James Cameron departs from mysterious and claustrophobic approach of Ridley Scott. With this departure the movie gains in scale, action and accessibility to audience, but becomes less subtle and complex. In non-action parts Cameron explores themes of motherhood and woman's role in society, but overall we get pretty straight-forward characters and dialogues.
Masterful horror that apart of perfectly exploiting usual tools of the genre like building a terrific atmosphere and creating a horrifying villain also hits you from unexpected angles. By scattering sexual symbols throughout the movie it awakens our unconscious fears and anxieties about ****, unwanted pregnancy and gory childbirth.
