Reviews
Crna machka, beli machor (1998)
The Art of Living
I am a fan of Emir Kusturica's works. I like what he does and how he does it. His latest feature "Chat noir, chat blanc" is another masterpiece. Comedy of the extreme life of the Gypsies, magic realism all around. Colors everywhere, brilliant photography and an excellent way to tell a simple story. Emir began this film as a documentary for the lives of the Gypsy musicians he had in Underground and it ended as a marvellous film of the lives of the Gypsies. No-one else I think, can tell a story so good as Kusturica does. The most mainstream screenplay can easily transform it to sth magic. This film is a comedy about two 40-something guys fallen on their own miseries, four 20-something boys and girls falling in love, two 70-sth grandpas having fun (alcohol does work) and two cats, one black, one white. Kusturica compose all of the above elements to make a comedy about living, loving and taking the money. I would say that this specific film is more lovable than the other films (perhaps Underground as an exception) because it captures 100% the joy of living (who does that better than the Gypsies?). The soundtrack for one more time reaches sky high though not Bregovic. So, leave us alone and go see the film!
Flirt (1995)
It NEVER happens once!
This is a film about the human behaviour, more or less. Like Jim Jarmousch did on "A Night On Earth", Hal Hartley attempts to reach the depths of a human soul, in a cosmically way, I think. We are more or less the same even if we don't admit it. A specific action can bring equal reaction from almost all of us. That is the point of the film. FLIRT focuses as the title says in flirting. This doesn't necessarily mean that it couldn't be otherwise, on the contrary. Hartley has his own way of processing images (and what a way!). After all he was a cinematographer, he should know. Poetic close-ups, characters more lovable not for what they say or do but for what they might say or do. This particular film studies the same situation in three different corners of the world. The places are not important. This could have happened anywhere and it did. Especially in the last place "Tokyo" the sequences are absolutely marvellous. I will not try to criticize the script as a script. There are people who get paid to do that sort of things. This is not a film to be seen by people with "conventional" eyes. This is not a conventional film. Far from it. Anyone who knows of Hal Hartley's work knows exactly what I mean. A 10 out of 10 for this brilliant film by Hartley, and remember best things in life are the ones we can't quite explain them.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Be very very afraid of the Knights Who Say Ni!
From The Start till the very Ending this film is an outstanding example of what smart comedy should really be like. I've seen this film more than 10 times and it never ceases to amaze me. MP tribe are the best comedy tribe of the known world. So, let it be written and let it be known: WE WANT MORE PYTHONESQUE HUMOUR PLEASE! OR ELSE YOU WILL MAKE US SAD..