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Now, this is real cinematographic archeology!! Meliés was one of the very pioneers using a camera, and judging by what we see in his 8 minutes long "Voyage Dans la lune" he would'have been a great sci-fi director if only he had been born 40 or 50 years later.

A surrealistic and naive document for those who are interested in the history of the Seventh Art.

*My rate: 7/10

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This is a perfect and painful radiography of the breaking of a marriage, step by step. It leans on the superb work of Lena Endre -she's like the Swedish Meryl Streep-. Liv Ullman and Bergman (who wrote the script) capture every emotion, every state of mind. From passion to remorse, from love to the hatred provoked by jealousy.

Liv and Ingmar psychoanalyze infidelity and Lena Endre's character seems to be in front of a psychoanalyst. She undresses her soul and she lets herself go in such a way that's only within the best actresses reach.

"Trolosa" is tough and is intense. It's obviously a movie for adults, with a language rather literary but so real when it comes to talk about feelings and moral diatribes. Such a masterpiece and an amazing display of talent of an awesome actress.

*My rate: 9'5/10

A yakuza member is looking for his dead brother whose corpse has mysteriously disappeared. Miike turns that story into such a bizarre and oneiric content with lots of weird characters. There's much humor in "Gozu" but also lots of symbols that are quite difficult to interpret by the audience.

In "Gozu" Miike's not as violent as he use to be, but the're some scenes that shows that baroque sense of violent of the Japanese director. What to say about the final sequence!! One of the oddest one I've ever seen.

So, I didn't understand most of the movie and I think is too long (more than 2 hours), but it's definitely something different and personal. I'm sure David Lynch would like it so much.

*My rate: 5.5/10