Pierrot Le Fou
The most depressing movie I've ever seen, more so than Au Hasard Balthazar. It begins manic, and ends on a note of complete despair. I both recommend it and wish I'd never seen it. It's a kick while you're down... but don't listen to me, I'm sure many have seen it totally differently.
High point for me was their re-enactment of vietnam war, pretty funny
http://viooz.co/movies/9298-pierrot-le-fou-1965.html
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The Three Colors Trilogy, Krzystof Kieslowski
Three films, Blue, White, and Red, for the colors of the French flag, each movie's theme coming from the motto of the French republic.
Blue: Liberty, from the past, identity, and relations with other people
White: Equality, regaining humanity, leveling the playing field (hard to explain this one, just see it)
Red: Fraternity, less strict with the theme, I thought, about connections and general compassion
The films are not directly connected, although there are cameos, and they compliment each other in a subtle way. I think go from weakest to strongest in the order I listed them, which is the order they were made in.
The first and last are in French, the second is mostly in Polish. Recommend, especially Red.
Shoot The Piano Player, Truffaut
A wild movie, Truffaut used most of his toolbox on this. A man who plays piano in a dive bar has his life interrupted by criminal hijinks, and a revealed past. Very stylish, all over the place, absurd. Just watch it.
Note sure if I've already given this review, but
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy
from 2011 is a top-class movie, I'd give it 4 stars!!
With Gary Oldman as British spy out to find a mole ...but best part of the movie is that it managed to capture some of the atmosphere of Cold War years. It's the recent past but was a very different and better world, when the two great antagonists groomed men of intellect and daring to struggle worldwide in grand conspiracies, throwing nations and factions against each other as proxies. You can't blame neocons for having nostalgia for this age; aside from the obvious aesthetic differences--people just dressed and acted better--it was the last time there existed a community of intellect, limited mostly to the USA and Russia. So that is the feel of it; highly intelligent men whose minds have been
weaponized,
the atmosphere of the Soviet chess club and the secret societies of England and the USA. Putin is the most visible vestige of this time. It's not a time of nobility or aesthetic refinement, but again, the last time I can see when an actual community of intellect existed and took matters seriously. For this reason it's a feeling of freedom and possibility compared to our own time.
I thought the last scene was very touching too and the music is good, but if you haven't watched, it contains spoiler:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/idUjpNL53RE
Oblivion
3/5
WN allegory about how international rootless techno-Judaism reprograms and brainwashes the white man and his false woman to become a weaponized agent of genocide against his own people. Salvation comes from the love of a Russian woman.