“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived?" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
sábado, 31 de março de 2018
quinta-feira, 29 de março de 2018
Patch Adams (1998)
"The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to
become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured
where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos."
La La Land (2016)
"Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and
jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy
bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the
fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard
to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart."
T2 Trainspotting (2017)
"First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal. Twenty
years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call
home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee
Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting
too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing,
fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are
all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance."
quarta-feira, 21 de março de 2018
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
"A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named
Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she
left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element
follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which
revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It
also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself
recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about
herself."
IMDB
Black Mass (2015)
"The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the
most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who
became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf."
The Handmaiden (2016)
"1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee)
is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a
secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle
(Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a
swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to
elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse.
The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko
discover some unexpected emotions."
IMDB
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
"After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight
the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment
and Support Allowance."
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