jp-scheffer
Joined Jul 2012
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The insultingly low overall IMDb score does this new, fresh, yet classic feeling German film great injustice, as it is a meticulously craftet cinematic tale, that will mesmerize and move those who still have the sensibility and patience to respond to well-crafted art: the art of cinematic storytelling.
I can find no flaws in this gorgeous film: not in the script, not in the actors, not in the cinematography, not in the locations, not in the music. It felt like it was was a classic tale, yet new and fresh, and hot like the hight of summer. This film is a simmering pastoral tale of love and pain, well worth seeing.
I can find no flaws in this gorgeous film: not in the script, not in the actors, not in the cinematography, not in the locations, not in the music. It felt like it was was a classic tale, yet new and fresh, and hot like the hight of summer. This film is a simmering pastoral tale of love and pain, well worth seeing.
L'Amica Geniale
I am currently watching the Italian-American TV series My Brilliant Friend (L'Amica Geniale), based on the four books by Italian writer Elena Ferrante, about a poor neigbourhood on the edge of Naples, Italy, in the 50's and 60's, where people live in uniform, grey appartment blocks, and where violence and drama are daily occurrences, and the story primarily follows the lives of two girls who become life-long friends, but have very different characters and ways, against a background and within the context of a great diversity of stories about those who touch their lives, and those whose lives they touch, and the whole story has great realism, width and depth, and I call it a "people's epic", wherein the people are the hero's and the villains, and often both.
Still two seasons (books) to go, and I'm hooked, which I very rarely am with any TV series, and I already count My Brilliant Friend as a masterpiece of cinematic storytelling.
J. P. S.
I am currently watching the Italian-American TV series My Brilliant Friend (L'Amica Geniale), based on the four books by Italian writer Elena Ferrante, about a poor neigbourhood on the edge of Naples, Italy, in the 50's and 60's, where people live in uniform, grey appartment blocks, and where violence and drama are daily occurrences, and the story primarily follows the lives of two girls who become life-long friends, but have very different characters and ways, against a background and within the context of a great diversity of stories about those who touch their lives, and those whose lives they touch, and the whole story has great realism, width and depth, and I call it a "people's epic", wherein the people are the hero's and the villains, and often both.
Still two seasons (books) to go, and I'm hooked, which I very rarely am with any TV series, and I already count My Brilliant Friend as a masterpiece of cinematic storytelling.
J. P. S.
As I say in the title, this is a gorgeous, relevant film, on multiple levels, without it being a complex, tiring film to watch, on the contrary, it is very purposeful and clear, yet also very beautiful and engaging, not to mention very stirring and moving. The cinematic language in which the story is told, made me long for more, and as cinema and storytelling go, I count this film as a triumph, so I rate it 10/10.