#cinemalover

[filmso2]

Near Dark

1987

[lecineaste]

Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda

[oyeevarnika]

Every unplanned Sid needs an organised Aisha in his life 🤌🏻

[lucifersloogie]

Boo 👻

[proximitytogod]

David Lynch eating panties belonging to the user 'cinemalover' via the davidlynch.com member section, 2003.

[yourscinematically]

I am in awe with how beautifully executed this is and what performances by the actors!

The mini series is based on the life of a 19 year old girl, named Esther Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), who is abandoned by her mother and lives with her paternal grandparents, her aunt and her father who is an irresponsible parent and a drunkard. Her family marries her off to a guy from her the most conservative Jewish community based in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of the Brooklyn city, New York.

What she believed her marriage to be, a beautiful and a new start to her life, it turned out to be a complete opposite. But that does not stop Esther from wanting to create herself a life that she truly wanted to live. The writing of the show has to be applauded because I witnessed one of the most brilliantly written character development arc. The series depicts Esther's story in parallels. A front where Esther is looking forward to her life after marriage, and the one where she is on a run, escaping from her conservative in-laws and her community. Down the plot, she meets her mother who is a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend in Berlin, Germany, the last place on the earth where a jew would want to be, that itself in it is a beautiful irony of the show. Esther meets a group of college students who are pursuing music at Berlin's Conservatory of Music where she becomes hell bent on getting a scholarship which was meant for the students from around the globe who are "stuck in a very special circumstances" and are extremely talented.

Now Esther, does have a knack for the music as she is seen to be drawn towards learning piano, when she was in Brooklyn, but that does not work out for her, which she had to learn the hard way through a friend who almost insulted and demeaned her performance while she performed for the first time in front of her friends.

Here in Brooklyn, her family and community are planning on to hunt down Esther and have appointed Moishe, who is Esther's husband's, Yanky (Yakov Shapiro, played by Amit Rahav), cousin. Moishe and Yanky learn that Esther is in Germany and eventually find her there. But throughout this manhunt, Yanky transformed into something completely different from what he was shown in a parallel where Esther wedded him.

Towards the end, when Moishe finds Esther and warns her that even though she felt suppressed in that marriage, she had basic amenities like food and a shelter over her head and she is missing out on these if she continues to live with her mother here in Germany. But Yanky pursues her to come back with him to Brooklyn and that he promises to change for her, but Esther's reality has been re-written by herself and she no longer wanted to return.

[telefonamitra20anni]

La dolce vita: Il punto più alto il punto più fragile.

Oui, Je suis content! È il 1960, Marcello vive uno dei momenti più belli della sua vita di attore e di uomo, inizia cosi, la sua "dolce vita". Tutto scorre veloce, il successo gli piomba addosso e d'improvviso, si ritrova ad essere riconosciuto come il latin lover di fama mondiale, l'attore simbolo italiano da mettere in vetrina. In questo vortice di successo, l'uomo viveva il punto più alto e il punto più fragile della sua vita, Marcello riscopre le sue più tangibili inettitudini e debolezze, ritrovandosi per un momento smarrito, in uno status di felicità incosciente. Vive lo spericolato viaggio di una crisi personale che mette alla prova, la conoscenza il perdono e l'accettazione del suo essere uomo virtuoso, inetto, umano, fragile. Lui, fino ad allora, sentiva di essere in qualche modo sbagliato. Eppure, quella dolce vita la accoglie, complice in causa Federico, che riscopre amico, confidente, complice, anima affine. Fino a quel momento, Marcello non sapeva che nome dare alla filia, alla felice libertà di sentirsi se stesso, senza quel retrogusto amaro del senso di colpa. Federico lo guida, lo ascolta e lo comprende. Gli dice che guardarsi come dentro uno specchio può far certamente paura ma, può essere capace di raccontarti bellezza. Marcello lo ascolta, cresce, evolve, si conosce. È il 1960 e per lui, è un nuovo battesimo. Dal punto più alto lui, ha capito che tanto valeva essere, e che il giusto rifugio dal punto più fragile sarebbe stata la cura della comprensione. Da quel momento tutto ha avuto un sapore diverso, sebbene un uomo non possa conoscersi mai abbastanza, Marcello ha capito di essere solo un uomo libero alla ricerca di se stesso, con la giusta cinica comprensione, con il piu adeguato spirito critico che lo contraddistingueva.

[miss-manoard]

Ingmar Bergman: Tystnaden (1963)