Movies at Dawn

HUBERT: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land! Hello everyone! Welcome to this week's unusually early post: La Haine by the brilliant Mathieu Kassovitz! This film is especially important because I finally watched it in a movie theater! It felt great to laugh with a room of people and shed some tears in the end. Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy reading the post! Mathieu Kassovitz is originally an actor that is most famous for his film Amelié (2001). He started writing this film following the accidental shooting of an immigrant by police - which I'll mention more in a bit. La Haine, similarly, tells the daily lives of  " black-blanc-beur" (black-white-Arab) boys living in the Parisian ghetto. The main conflict of the film is built between the minority groups and the police. Despite taking a ser...

MARTIN: I gave God a chance to kill me. He didn't do it, so he's pleased with me. Hello everyone and welcome to this week's post! I chose a slow-paced film for this week called The White Ribbon by the auteur Michael Haneke. There is a lot to talk about this film and I can't wait to share my thoughts with you! Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy reading the post! As usual, let's give a little background about the movie. The film takes place in a small German village in the years close before World War I. Throughout the film, a shocking series of incidents happen to the village, and the residents are left questioning who might have committed those crimes. In the end, however, we don't know who is behind those crimes, it's up to the audience's interpretation.  As this was my first Haneke film, I didn't know that his films are often left open-ended. The reason is that he wants his audience to work on his films and put some thought into them, which...

Hello everyone! I'm back much later than usual this week because everything has been quite hectic recently. I missed blogging terribly though, s o to celebrate my return, I chose an extraordinary film: Raw by the brilliant Julia Ducournau! I've heard Ducournau's name a lot recently as she won the grand prize at Cannes Film Festival with her latest feature Titane, so that led me to explore her films more. Much to my delight, Raw never disappointed me and I can't wait to talk more about it! Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy reading the post (I even missed writing that sentence!). Aforementioned, Raw is written and directed by Julia Ducournau. It is her first feature film, though she directed a short feature called Junior in 2011 before. Both films carry similar themes in them: a coming-of-age story told in a uniquely exciting way. With its interesting plot, Raw takes centre around our protagonist Justine who demonstrates cannibalistic behaviour throughout the fil...

BLIND WOMAN:  I'm just like you. I drink, I eat, I taste things. I listen to music. I feel music. I do whatever I want. I even go to the movies. PARIS DRIVER:  The movies? And what do you see at the movies? BLIND WOMAN:  Sometimes I feel the film. Hello everyone! I'm back this week with my new favourite film, Night On Earth by Jim Jarmusch! There's absolutely no reason why I would dislike this film, it had everything I wanted! Taking the viewer from the vibrant streets of New York City to the quiet ones in Helsinki, it was such an enjoyable journey and I can't wait to share my thoughts with you! Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy reading the post! Before diving into the characters, I'd like to give a little background about the film. Night On Earth is written, directed, and produced by Jim Jarmusch. The film tells the story of five different cab drivers on the same night from different locations on Earth - which are Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, a...