Reviews

A land surveyor,K.,is invited to the Castle to do some work for the Count,but when he arrives at the Village,he finds that nobody is expecting him.K.'s attempts to get into the Castle are as unsuccessful as his attempt to settle into the local village.He is greeted by a compact reluctance from the villagers,who with a systematic inefficiency prevent him from any prospects of even approaching the castle.The harder the stubborn K.,tries,the farther he moves from his goals.The impenetrable,seemingly haphazard but strangulating bureaucracy of the castle hinders the clarification of his social and existential situation.K. remains what he was on the day of his arrival:a stranger who is barely tolerated...Haneke's film version of Kafka's famous unfinished novel is an unusually faithful and highly successful literary adaptation.Kafka is,with his absurd,pessimistic yet still very realistic idea of the world,a sort of soulmate of Haneke's.

This is the true story of Gavino Ledda,a Sardinian shepherd,who though illiterate until he was twenty,is now a doctor in glottology.His father takes Gavino out of school when the boy is six year old;he has no choice:education is a privilege of rich people and Gavino has to be shepherd.Taken out of school,he spends most of his adolescene up the mountains looking after his father's sheep and living an isolated life.Gavino tries to leave from Sardegna,but the father does not give him the written consent that he needs.In the meantime the father sells the cattle,sends his daughter to be servant,and his sons to work.Later,it suits his father to have Gavino join the army and learn a trade;so he becomes also the teacher of Gavino in order to make him get the diploma of elementary school and thus be sent as a volunteer to the army.While in the army,after some years Gavino gets the diploma from the high school and decides that he wants to go on to university.He returns home,when his father once more makes him a shepherd,but Gavino is determined to return to the mainland...Based on the autobiographical novel by Ledda,PADRE PADRONE brought Taviani Brothers the international fame.

Paul,a 45 year-old expatriate American in Paris in an emotional daze after the suicide of his wife,meets a beautiful young girl,Jeanne,who's about to get married and is looking for an apartment.Within minutes of their coincidental encounter in a vacant flat,they are making love in the large empty space.From that moment on,the two strangers become regular lovers,albeit strange ones,because Paul refuses to reveal anything about his past and shows no interest in getting to know his new partner.She isn't happy with this arrangement but continues to meet him at the empty apartment,cut off from the outside world,addicted to uninhibited sex with Paul as if it were a drug.Meanwhile,Jeanne's young fiance,Tom,a filmmaker committed to a kind of political cinema verite,follows Jeanne around with his crew,filming her romance with him,and her preparations and thoughts surrounding the forthcoming marriage...This extraordinary and stunningly beautiful landmark work is,as the director himself has stated,"not an erotic film,merely a film about eroticism."

This is the best love movie I've ever watched.First I wanna congratulate Wong Kar Wai.He's gifted.Hong Kong 1962.The chief editor of a local daily newspaper,Mr.Chow and his wife move into new accommodation in a building mainly inhabited by members of the Shangai community.He soon meets Li-Chun,a beautiful young woman has also just moved in with her husband.Meantime Mr.Chow and Li-Chun discovered that their respective partners are having an affair.But they promise eachother that not become lovers like they did.They hide their feelings with the wonderful musics of Michael Galasso and Shigeru Umebayashi.But a suprise waiting for us...Some secrets can't be hide long and if you named it love.With the exquisite visiual that have become director Wong Kar Wai's trademark and powerful performance from all concerned,IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is an elegant and astounding tribute to a time past and lost love....