“Beautiful Things” by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasina cannot be watched like a regular movie. One participates in it – as in a ritual, devout contemplation, or trance with art.
Amjad Abu Alala creates a portrait of a conservative society in which the hypocrisy is clearly visible and the threshold of freedom cannot be crossed so easily.
“The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosiński is one of my favorite books. So I awaited the film adaptation by Václav Marhoul with impatience and enthusiasm. (…) Why Václav Marhoul haven’t done his homework?
It is year 2025, Eastern Ukraine. One year has passed since the end of the devastating war. The deserted, almost devoid of vegetation landscape, which lacks potable water, is one huge battlefield, a minefield and a cemetery. Remnants of industry are withdrawing from the region along with people forced to abandon their former lives and set out to seek happiness elsewhere.
