Time of Gypsies (Dom Za Vesanje) is Emir Kusturica’s first Palm D’Or winning masterpiece. Just finished this grim look into the lives and community of Roma gypsies in Yugoslavia and I’m left feeling absolutely gutted. I cannot the last time I watched a film that left me feeling literally sick in the stomach. Like a kick to the gut kind of feeling. This film will stay with me for a long time. A film of relentless tragedy after tragedy. …
This film is one of two Emir Kusturica films that are unbelievably special to me - the other is my recently watched and reviewed 1995 film Underground.
This of course is the 1998 film Black Cat, White Cat. This film is an absurdist riot, a romantic black comedy like nothing you’ve seen before! Winner the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival - I’ve always been suprised this didnt clean up the Palm D’Or at the coveted Cannes Film Festival. …
Soul Music, 159 min (7 episodes approx 23 min each) (though I watched this as a long film), directed by Jean Flynn and based on the Terry Pratchett novel if the same name.
Watched this back to back with another film also based on a Terry Pratchett’s novel - Wyrd Sisters - in my opinion, a better production than this film.
The movie begins with the fiery carriage crash (complete with the requisite flaming wheel) and demise of Death's adopted daughter…
The 2001 psychological drama film The Piano Teacher is an adaptation by German director Michael Haneke of Elfriede Jelinek’s 1983 novel ‘Die Klavierspielerin’, an in depth character study of repressed piano teacher Erika Kohut. Appearing disciplined, harsh, and controlled to her peers and students, Erika is soon revealed to be proprietor to a whole host of complex and controversial sexual desires. Over the course of this erotic French masterpiece, Erika attempts to act on her desires by engaging in a…
