The discreet charm of myself

My merely mediocre self, trying to be relevant in a chaotic reality. Art in every form possible

[moviemosaics]

Holy Emy

directed by Araceli Lemos, 2021

[mynameiseosson]

Holy Emy - Agia Emy (2021), dir. Araceli Lemos

[shesnake]

The Blue Caftan (2022) dir. Maryam Touzani

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Hearbreaking. A movie about passion, love, craft, tradition.

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

The oddly familiar beauty of the provincial town’s ugliness.

Ballad for a Pierced Heart dir. Yannis Economides

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

I am currently enjoying what #ertflix , the streaming platform of the Greek national television has to offer. And what it has to offer is Everyone knows (Todos lo saben) dir. Asghar Farhadi (2018). 

It is what Farhadi does masterfully and you come back for, even if you know what to expect. A mysterious incident falls upon a family; an extended family most of the times. The family cracks under the pressure of the unknown. The pressure disrupts the trust that they have for each other. They get suspicious and they stir drama to justify their suspicions. In the end Farhadi gives you the truth, he solves the mystery. It can be a happy end or not. But somehow it is not settling. You still feel uneasy, it doesn’t make all suspicion go away. This one version of the truth cannot make up for the entire universe of senarios built during the movie.  It is truly unique!

[clementine-kruczynski123]

Οι άνθρωποι είμαστε "μαγνητικα πεδια" και κολλάμε ο ένας στον άλλον - με προσμονή ή εντελώς τυχαία, αταίριαστα ή ταιριαστά, για λίγο ή για πάντα.

Μαγνητικά Πεδία, Γιώργος Γουσης

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

It is not common to watch a film and wish that it would last longer. And this one, Magnetic Fields dir. Yorgos Gousis (2021) made it. The naive, dead-pun but intentionally funny dialogues the infinite tenderness, the built-up tension... it makes me wanna go every night at 23.00 to the openair cinema of my neighborhood to watch it again and again.

RECOMMENDED

[clementine-kruczynski123]

[onlyperioddramas]

GEREON RATH AND CHARLOTTE RITTER Babylon Berlin (2017- )

[tomvorlostriddle]

Let’s get fangirling! [5/10 movies]  Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. (2014)

»Mein Vater hat gegen die Demokraten gekämpft, weil er Faschist war. Ich habe gegen meinen Vater gekämpft, weil ich Kommunist bin. Dann hast du gegen mich gekämpft, weil du Demokrat sein willst. Also frage ich mich, was Stefan gerade tut.«

[annarosestabler]

Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Interiors

[mabusecaligari]

Lola (1981) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Absolute favourite baby blue/ baby pink scene from Lola (1981). The attention to lighting in this film elevates it to a masterpiece.

[orchideennacht]

Lola (1981)

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

This movie, oh this movie. The saturated colours, the tender, corrupt characters that are all tender and loving in their own right trying to survive in a cruel world. The freedom that this movie exudes is something else.

So, Lola today (1981), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

There is nothing I enjoy more than one room/set movies like the Breakfast club/Man on Earth/ Dinner with Andrè and of course The Party. Throw people in a room, have them there for hours and let them unveil their true colours and burst from all the penned up feelings.

This particular one, The Party (2017) dir. Sally Porter is all all that sprinkled with some british contemporary concerns and AMAZING actors as the late Bruno Ganz, the love of my life.

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Dive into the plastic, overly stylised, retro-pop world of the movie But I’m a cheerleader dir. Jamie Babbit (1999)

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Dive into the plastic, overly stylised, retro-pop world of the movie But I’m a cheerleader dir. Jamie Babbit (1999)

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

Τhe incredible long shots of Lars Kraume in the movie The silent Revolution (Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer) (2018)

[thediscreetcharmofmyself]

opening title sequence of the movie Cleo from 5 to 7 dir. Agnes Varda (1962)