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Junebug (2005)
High Quality Film Tastes Darn Good
There is a great peace in the pacing of this film. Slow, warm shots, slow introductions into the universe of the film.
Excellent characterization, a sense of place, drama, humor. Excellent acting.
Why indie film exists.
For instance: a shot of a tree. Then a shot of a table. Then a shot of a person.
There you have a place. Nothing explodes, or is bloodied, but something is revealed.
A sign of a good director is someone who can do a sex scene that has never been captured on film.
Come on, every time you've had sex is slighty slightly different, but Hollywood only knows how to depict sex two or three ways.
You'll enjoy this.
Krajobraz po bitwie (1970)
Folk Sensibility, Religious Posturing, and Sex
Aside from the fact that the women in the film are stunningly beautiful and all the camp prisoners are too fat, this film rings true on the chaos of the post-war.
Beautiful photography, and a powerful national expression of the Polish national character.
It's very slow at points, but its entire pacing is so different from American and Western European films that it's quite refreshing.
Both lead actors do a very good job. On the DVD version, you can see interviews with the principal actors and crew, and the lead actress Stanislawa Celinska has gained about 50 lbs and lost all of her beauty. But in 1970, she was a stunner.
Heartlands (2002)
I need a good hammer for my skull
I love a good independent film, and I love England.
Loving those two things was not enough to love this film.
The line between quaint and catatonic, between heartwarming and smarmingly saccharine, is rather fine at times.
This director hasn't quite figured out how to keep his feet on the kosher side of the line.
He has a good eye, and the pacing isn't bad, but it isn't good either. He lingers 10 seconds too long on just about every shot, 2 minutes too long on every scene.
I love a good movie about nothing. But this is merely a mediocre one.