Seeing our forever lost ambitions and dreams often causes great pain. If your talent has been wasted along the rational decisions of making ends meet and being the breadwinner of the family, you will be frustrated. Maybe also your relationship decisions were dictated by the rational calculation, fear of being alone or never running into anyone who will meet the expectations of a whirlwind romance. But what if there was a chance for something exciting? A forgotten actress with an abusive husband and a juvenile delinquent of a son, and an artist lover. Will the unexpected visit of a step-daughter ruin the desperate cling to old desires? Wonder Wheel.
We live in times when the discussion of whether or not to have children, (if yes how to raise them, what to buy them, how to protect their privacy, and how to lose the postpartum weight) seems to be on the mouth of everybody. A generation of perfect Instagram parents has been built. Parenthood is hard enough, revolutionizing the lives of everybody to the extent of 3rd world war. But for some, being at the corner of their career, relationship or life situation, it proves to be the greatest gift. What if the life of a party-goer, ladies man, and irresponsible Peter Pan was enriched by the presence of a child? Is it easy to lose something which at first frightened you, but then won your heart? Why one parent cannot play the role of both? Why mother and father relations are often stereotypical and so many courts tend to take the mother's side in the divorce trials? Heart-warming and surprisingly real in its improbability, Two Is a Family.
There's something true in the fact that men come, disturb the peace and leave, and women are the ones to clean the mess. From every side of the spectrum, despite the origin, financial status, and race. If you are a woman, at any time you can be abandoned to keep the world on your shoulders and swipe the dust after the disorder of pain. Two women during a difficult political time, one a servant, the other an employer and mother of four. Two personal dramas, old as time, for all of us, understood and empathically cried over. Why women are the stronger sex? Why for some truths you don't need explanation, color or words? Universal, true, and a tribute to a woman. ROMA.
We love the stories of rich and successful people who created something for all of us to enjoy. People who came up with something outside of the box, from a company of inhibition and established rules spread the wings of independence, excite us. They had the guts to do something many only dream about or are forced to when all else fails, often with mixed results. For some security is more important than following the dream of being one's own boss. For others, family and children, become a bigger priority than their own dreams of success. Others yet, have to fight for their lives and establish the closest relations to be able to start the career of their dreams. Why losing someone means appreciating them twice as much? Where do you get an inspiration and why talent is seen from the youngest years? And why one hundred years ago the life of Astrid Lindgren, the famous children author, an unmarried woman with a child was a tough nut to bite? Becoming Astrid. The greatest stories are often created from the greatest pain.
There's a small percentage of women who are on the board of the biggest companies, a small percentage of film directors and producers, a small percentage of company owners. Thus, when a woman holds the highest position in any organization, she is to be compared to a man. What if she is the ruler of a country? What obstacles does she have to face in her fight for power and independence? Is she able to make her own choices and keep the privileges given to a woman to love and have children? Or is she a victim of men that surround her, advise her, and seem to be loyal to her by the power of love? Is alienation from what is human a clue for keeping the power? Is having it all doomed to the fall of the strongest of women, exposing their weaknesses?
In the world which still fights for equal rights, equal pays, and equal opportunities it's good to peek into the past of two women who were the head of the country. One consciously deciding to live for her role, the other hoping to remain a wife and a mother, and keeping above the surface of power. Elizabeth and Mary hundreds of years ago did what women try to balance nowadays. A whole lot of history and magnificence of lost time, actresses of our generations, inspiration for half of the world's population. Enjoy.
Time flies by so fast that it's difficult to keep track of its flow. What now can be seen in musea was used every day by thousands of us, not even expecting what the future holds and how today will look like. Our present will also be someone else's past, possibly even a distant past. Our fascinations and philosophies will be seen as basic and out-dated, our technology will fill the shelves of galleries and our clothes and food will be the center attention for school trips for children, organized to extend the curriculum of classes if there will be such. How the world will look like hundreds of years from now? How our inventions will influence the inventions from the future? Can you imagine moving cities on wheels on shifted continents and London, being one of these cities, facing a catastrophe caused by flawed and corrupted politics? Based on Philip's Reeve novel, with a bullet of Peter's Jackson film-making capabilities, the adventure of the future. Mortal Engines, enjoy.
A woman without a man can be a dangerous thing. And it's true for every age: a teenager dreaming about a first boyfriend, a young woman with buzzing sexual appetite, a mature experienced one longing for her past and appreciating that she is still active, attractive, and hungry. Once a man enters this all-female environment, true desires are difficult to be kept hidden. What if an enemy soldier was found by a schoolgirl and kept a hostage in a school run by women for girls? Can you pretend love just to survive? Can you form a true bond with literally everybody just because there's no other man home? And what women, whose feelings have been rejected, are capable of? Two film adaptations of one novel almost fifty years apart, proving that emotions do not fade in time, one from 1971 another from 2017. The Beguiled.