A very silly thing in life is to expect to fall in love with someone of the similar background, comparative age, the same nationality and religion, weight, hair color and... height. We live in the time of haters when people openly comment on each other, criticize and shame others for various reasons. Standing for what you believe in and for the ones you love has become more and more difficult to carry out. Love life is one of the most fragile aspects of our lives and it should be given a boost of optimism. A fun and smart film to see. Overcoming inabilities is one more step to happiness. Enjoy.
Recovering after a loss is a devastating experience. It can be a final loss: an unexpected death of your spouse, partner or friend. It can be the end of a relationship or a period in your life. Sometimes it's also the end of a job and a farewell to people met in the specific atmosphere of work. It's not easy to forget when a big part of your life consisted of shared moments, happiness and mutual care. It's heartbreaking to let it all go and be forgotten. It's finally difficult to live happily again bearing in mind that nothing will be the same and the loss will always stay somewhere along the lines of your days. It's a good movie for everyone in need of a second chance. Tumbledown.
Italian countryside may be a great background for personal stories. It might be perfect for meeting your old friends, for dealing with the past, for falling in love. An artist's villa can be well-suited for discovering your past and finding yourself among people who have little in common but share the fascination with the physical love. It might be a place where a beautiful girl can put all the pieces to the puzzle and start a new chapter of her life.
Wild species have always fascinated us. Having no animals in the nearest proximity, we established zoos to put them on display. When land was for us of utmost importance, we pushed them out of the land and caused them to shift from endangered to extinct. Civilization made us believe that we, as people, are more privileged and it all belongs to us. Maybe, for this reason, a team of actors was shipped to a wild land, where humans are vicious and one beast's size would rather fit it in the era of dinosaurs. Hollywood made money out of the most bizarre stories. It could kidnap an enormous gorilla from the claws of the jungle. It could enslave a beast, which as a matter of fact, could fall in love with a woman. Love, land, and life are not exclusively human. Full of action and surprising romanticism: King Kong.
Beauty. There is something about beauty that makes people lose their heads. Men leave their wives for beautiful mistresses, women can cut, trim, tighten and get rid of their body parts to achieve the ideal of perfection. Out of jealousy, some can resort to the most disgusting acts. What happens to a beautiful woman left alone in the time of war? What happens to the idolized angel of one boy's childhood, to the desire of ordinary men, and the envy of ordinary women? Italian goddess in a difficult story of one woman's life. Beautiful Monica Bellucci in Malena.
Have you ever thought why were you blessed with the fact of being born healthy? What a miracle it was that you have everything quite all right, from head to toes you're a healthy human being? And what if you aren't? What if somewhere along the way you had been deprived of limbs or been born disabled, handicapped or seriously sick? Who is to blame for it all? God? Bad luck? Would you rather sit and complain that the life didn't offer everything it was supposed to offer? Would you give up? Maybe we all are here for some reason, so giving up is making someone else give up along the way in these butterfly effect tricks of fate.
We keep our stories alive, whether our lives are long or short, whether we are strong and healthy or we live in our little worlds of comfort, where ability and health mean different things. It's a good story about friendship, brotherhood, and struggle. Sometimes a stranger next door is your biggest friend. Sometimes little stories are the most meaningful. Enjoy.
We keep our stories alive, whether our lives are long or short, whether we are strong and healthy or we live in our little worlds of comfort, where ability and health mean different things. It's a good story about friendship, brotherhood, and struggle. Sometimes a stranger next door is your biggest friend. Sometimes little stories are the most meaningful. Enjoy.
We have this inherent human quality of feeling better than the animal kind. We surrounded ourselves by technology, stuck our heads in our computers and applications, deprived ourselves of the strength of our muscles by making use of cars, trains, and planes. We conquered the world. But, as history proved us wrong, showing that who was once the master can very soon be a servant, the order of things might be reversed. There are places where we are the inferior and the animals are the superior. There are lands where mistreatment and slavery involve the white man. There are planets which suffered the reverse of roles and you have to deal with it. From the 1963 science fiction novel to 1968, 2001 and 2014 subsequent films, the concept seems still very much alive. Can you be a human treated worse than an animal? Can you accept the loss of your dominance? Can you feel secure in Planet of the Apes?
There are magical towns in the world which follow rigid rules of unhappiness. Those towns need people who will add some color to their shabby structure. In some towns, people made themselves unhappy by abusive relationships, loneliness, appearances, and prejudices. Hiding behind a doubtful Catholic morality, they locked themselves in a cage without the escape door. The clue is to get it opened. Occasionally individual lives can be changed by one taste of... chocolate. The good send to the world will come to you. This film is one such good deed to us all. Chocolat.
Do you wish for adventure which will take you to a world of a bigger size? Do you want to be elevated to a sphere where knights, their swords, their horses and their code of arms mean surprisingly little? Do you want to take part in a battle between creatures bigger than yourself? Do you feel constrained in all the dresses and feminine types of work? If so, you will thoroughly enjoy this story. Some giants are beyond ugly, some princesses are beyond adventurous and some peasant boys have all the qualities of a knight. Entertainment at its best and a revival of one good English legend. Jack the Giant Slayer.
Is friendship between a man and a woman possible? Can one act of physical closeness change the relationship between people? What about friends with benefits? Can we really stay physically close to another person without any feelings whatsoever? What are the boundaries two people can cross and can you hurt another person for the sake of your own happiness? Is love once and for all, or can it happen in our lives over and over again? Can your life be turned upside down by one kiss? So, shall we kiss?
European scenarios are so predictable. We live in our cities and towns, juggling work and family life, treating ourselves with an occasional holiday to exotic resorts and white sandy beaches. Having everything provided, our health well-taken care of, our food bought in a supermarket, we forget that there are different worlds just waiting for us to explore. Sometimes a revolution requires a one-way plane ticket. One woman was blessed with an extraordinary life: a life of struggle, adventure, love and unsurpassed beauty of the continent she was lucky to have the chance to live in. Legendary Meryl Street as Karen Blixen in Out of Africa.
What are you willing to do for love? Are you ready to have your beloved one imprisoned in the worst kind of cage? Are you willing to take part in a deadly competition and risk your life for fulfilling unreasonable tradition? Are you brave enough to enter civilization which obeys not entirely understandable norms and customs? Are you devoted enough to believe in God's demanding monuments of a giant stone human-like creature? Are you fearless enough to step on the island which was kept in isolation for years until it perished somewhere in the ocean of time? Are you ready to enter Rapa Nui?
In the jungle of Kongo there was once a boy left to die in loneliness, abandoned by his parents, deprived of the chances of his birth. In the jungle of Kongo, there was once a boy who was saved by the wildest of the wild, creatures who obeyed rules few of us could comprehend. In the jungle of Kongo, there was a man who once again received the access to his lost inheritance of civilization. When one species wanted to dominate over the other, when the man tried to rule over animals for centuries, when the white man wanted to abuse the black man for decades of colonization and slavery, there was one man who connected them all. This film shows us how cruel we can be as people, how greed destroys values and equality, and how cooperation can save more than one life. Whatever race we are, whatever country we come from, we are just a piece of the puzzle of one big organism. Totally amazing, The Legend of Tarzan.
Life isn't there for you to make you bored. It plays with you, giving you chances, taking away obstacles, putting on your way the right (or wrong) people. Fate pulls the strings of your career, social upgrades, financial promotions. You'd think that being born in a poor, slightly pathological family can put an end to your well-lived life, but there are moments which can, fortunately, bring you back to the surface. This is a story about a girl whose fate threw her to the pitch-perfect world of classical music. Is staying in the seemingly better and prestigious sphere worth every risk?