The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.
Paris in spring. While the weather goes bonkers, a handful of women meet, argue, make up and love one another: an authoritarian business woman and her timid assistant; an overwhelmed mother and her lesbian babysitter; a sentimental lawyer and her hysterical sister; a gynecologist and her terrified sister; a bus conductor and an almost incendiary Russian – all are united by laughter and tears.
Stanley is a magician who has dedicated his life to revealing fraudulent spiritualists. He plans to quickly uncover the truth behind celebrated spiritualist Sophie and her scheming mother. However, the more time he spends with her, he starts thinking that she might actually be able to communicate with the other world, but even worse, he might be falling in love with her.
Romantic comedy is written and directed by Woody Allen and star Academy award winner Colin Firth ("Kings Speech" and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"), Emma Stone ("Gangster squad" and "The Amazing Spider man 1 & 2") and Marcia Gay Harden ("Mystic River").
Although it's full of stylistic hallmarks we've come to expect from Gilliam — layered realities, overbearing technology, institutional paranoia and of course, quirky romance – it feels like a personal journey into his beliefs, as it stares into the divide between reason and faith.
Living in an Orwellian corporate world where "mancams" serve as the eyes of a shadowy figure known only as Management, Leth works on a solution to the strange theorem while living as a virtual cloistered monk in his home—the shattered interior of a fire-damaged chapel. His isolation and work are interrupted now and then by surprise visits from Bainsley, a flamboyantly lusty love interest who tempts him with "tantric biotelemetric interfacing" (virtual sex) and Bob. Latter is the rebellious whiz-kid teenage son of Management who, with a combination of insult-comedy and an evolving true friendship, spurs on Qohen’s efforts at solving the theorem. … Bob creates a virtual reality "inner-space" suit that will carry Qohen on an inward voyage, a close encounter with the hidden dimensions and truth of his own soul, wherein lie the answers both he and Management are seeking. The suit and supporting computer technology will perform an inventory of Qohen’s soul, either proving or disproving the Zero Theorem.
Like most life lessons, the answers to Qohen's problems are hidden in plain sight. But the fact that they're there at all marks the difference between a film with a nihilistic attitude about human existence, and one that believes in the idea that there are many reasons to live, both great and small. Like a great professor who makes complicated ideas easy to understand, and more importantly, fun to think about, Gilliam boils down basic questions about human existence to a series of weirdly relatable physical conflicts, which is why "The Zero Theorem" dances on the edge of nothingness, and manages to find something incredibly powerful to say.
1970s in French Riviera. Leaving behind her unsuccessful marriage, Agnes Le Roux comes back to her mother, the host of the Palais de la Mediterranee casino in Nice. Meanwhile, Cote d'-Azur goes through tough time because of back-room "casino war", property redistribution among criminal groupings, which escalates as it was tensions in family. With the casino losing money and mob rivals closing in, Agnes' mother Renee doesn't want Agnes' stake to go outside the family. But nor does she have the liquid cash to buy her daughter out. Next, Renee increasingly turns for advice to ambitious lawyer Maurice Agnelet, who helps maneuver the old-guard administration out and install Renee as board president. Unexpectedly, Agnes falls in love that carries into smithereens her fragile world by powerful explosion of outstanding passion. The man she fell in love with is not free in his own desires. Suddenly, her mysterious disappearance in the heat of these events rises a lot of questions, but does not provide any answers...
"Palm d’Or" award nomination at Cannes Film Festival.
In the opening scenes, Maria is en route to collect an award on behalf of a good friend, Wilhelm Melchior. Melchior is the writer of a play named Maloja Snake, which was then made into a film starring Maria.
Maria is joined on this journey by her personal assistant and confident Val. The relationship between these two women is the focus throughout, and it’s expertly established for us in these opening sequences.
Dialogue between the pair overlaps, is interrupted by calls and sometime even hangs in the air as the topics up for discussion change and segue. There is an incredibly natural feel to their interchanges that comes from a great script performed by two fine actresses.
Although it opens with the caveat that the story was "inspired by a court case" yet is "entirely fictional" we all know by now that Abel Ferrara is referring to the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and his wife at the time, Anne Sinclair, and the scandal and ramifications of an alleged assault on a New York hotel maid.
Mr. Devero is a toxic mix of desire, power and arrogance. High powered person who controls global finances and shapes people's future, is not capable to deal with his own instincts. He is guided by an unrestrained sexual hunger and he is unable to resist. He, who cares to save the world, is unable to save himself...
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in sprawling areas of un -and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs, both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult when the corpses of two young women are found. A new evil has been introduced in the city and a new drug has been introduced to its residents, including both murder victims. At the chaotic crossroads where brutality and modernization collide, the echoes of apartheid still resound in the shadows of a society struggling toward reconciliation.
"Well, you don’t love life itself. You love places, animals, people, memories, food, literature, music. And sometimes you meet someone...who requires all the love you have to give. And if you lose that someone, you think everything else is going to stop too. But everything else just keeps on going."
Aged American philosophy professor lives a lonely and self-contained life in Paris. Immersed in a deep reverie, he lost that something that he was searching for all his life - the meaning. Surrounded by memories, menacing to turn into hallucinations, he is inevitably moving towards the chasm: struggling against the absurd is even more difficult when you are alone. It seems that everything around is nothing but the decor: that’s how uninteresting the world became to him.
It seems that all that was important stayed in the past. And so it was, until one day he met someone on the bus, and this encounter changed everything.
Magnificent Michal Caine created a little delightful masterpiece on screen that makes you want to watch it again straight after walking out of the theatre.
"Mr. Morgan’s Last Love" - is a certain answer to gloomy "Love" by Michael Haneke.
This touching, heartfelt, beautiful story, filled with light sadness in pale shades, could have been shot only by a woman. The film is not about how one needs to live a life - it’s about the need of living it. And making it bright and saturated, making sure each moment is appreciated.
Fine and elegant reflection on loneliness, forgiveness and love, that give its spectator hope.
A Russian pupils planning they school graduation party. School graduates dreaming about an unforgettable party, but teachers and conservative parents have more traditional point of view. The opposite intentions of two different generations makes school a place of fight between youngsters and teachers.
Nick, played by Josh Hutcherson, is a Canadian tourist travelling through Columbia. He meets and falls in love with a young woman who just happens to be the niece of cocaine-kingpin Pablo Escobar, played by Benicio Del Toro. Escobar quickly warms to the young man, bringing him into his inner-circle, but once Escobar's empire starts to crumble, Nick finds himself in the cross-hairs of the increasingly paranoid drug lord.
The action thriller is directed and written by Andrea Di Stefano making his directorial debut and staring Academy award winner Benicio Del Toro ("Guardians of the Galaxy", "Savages" and "The Wolfman"), Josh Hutcherson ("The Hunger Games", "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1") and Brady Corbet ("Melancholia").