Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
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Films
Selected reviews, essays and reflections on cinema. This English section will contain only texts that make sense for an international audience.
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My Brilliant Friend — a museum of neorealism
This series is awful. Tacky, flat, pretentious and tame.
Napoleon by Ridley Scott
Well, then — visually beautiful, but ordinary in conception, which is to say dreadful. For me, turning Napoleon’s life into a panoramic survey is a thoroughly schoolroom approach.
Literary and Pictorial Allusions in Woody Allen’s “Coup de chance”
Henri Rouger, Stéphane Mallarmé and Caravaggio as paths into the hidden layer of Woody Allen’s most recent film.