Movie Reviews
What an energy!! Being young is just wonderful! The film picked 9 brilliant high school students from all over the world to follow their path to come to ISEF (The International Science and Engineering Fair). I really did not know anything about ISEF! It is a huge event. And many high schoolers think ISEF is the key […]
Yayoi Kusama, a 89 years old Japanese artist, is the top-selling female artist in the world. Her exhibitions are often sold-out. She speaks in Japanese in this movie and I hope the audience can feel the nuances in her Japanese in the subtitle. Her speaking manner is quite unique, but totally sincere. Kusama went through a hard […]
Even a non-American myself of course I have heard about RBG and I knew she has been a center of equal right movement for any gender. And now I understand why she has a huge name. This movie portrays her intimate life from the very young age. At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth […]
It is a very interesting idea to make a movie about the living filmmaker?? And this filmmaker is not an ordinary one. It is Jean-Luc Godard (played by Luis Garrel). The film covers the period of the 37-year-old Godard’s marriage to the 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsly (on whose memoir it’s based) and the unsettlement of French students […]
この映画、飛行機の中で鑑賞しましたが、寺島しのぶの演技に圧倒！もうこの人は、演技をする為に生まれて来たとしか言いようがないです。周りを固める役者達も、確かにすごいけれど、この映画、寺島しのぶがいなければ、成り立たなかったでしょうね。はっきり言って、寺島しのぶ演じるところの超根暗の独身会社員（今風に言えば、アラフィフって、言うのかなあ。。）が、ひょんな事から奇妙な英会話教室に通い、そこから自分を爆発させる事になるお話。現実感ありありのところと、こんな事絶対有り得ない！というところが、不思議に絡み合って、度迫力の映画になっていますよ。開き直りとも違う、厭世観とも違う、個性というにはちょっとおぞましいこの女性。大爆発を経て、「愛」に辿り着くところが、救いとも言えるし、多分現実では、有り得ないフェアリー・テールというのかも、ね。絶対見る価値あり！
“King of Hearts” is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca. 50 years after the original film release, the movie is shown in a beautiful new 4k restoration. I did not know that “King of Hearts” has been a world wide cult favorite movie and it has been attracting the audience around […]
Katja (Diane Kruger) suddenly lost everything, her husband, Nuri, and little son, Rocco, with a bomb attack setting in front of Nuri’s office. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja manages through difficulty (with the help of drugs…). Eventually she set herself to revenge the killers. Well…. it […]
If you want to laugh out during a crazy holiday season please see this movie. I guarantee you will laugh hard! It is unbelievable that this movie is truly (!) based on the true story! You have to see it!
Directed by Ferenc Török, and written by Ferenc Török and Gabor Szántó, a movie “1945” is in a black-and-white drama set with the immediate postwar period in rural Hungary. It is in minimalistic and beautiful color. This adaptation of the short story “the Homecoming“ from co-screenwriter Gabor Szántó depicts how a town feels about having moved into […]
Directed by Alon Schwarz and co-directed by his brother Shaul, the film is about the family torn apart after WWII. There is Izak Szewelewicz, a 68-year-old gardener, born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and sent for adoption in Israel. Since then he has been living in Israel. His brother Shep, 67, who was visually […]