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" Oxford Murders - Teorema a crime "
(or. " The Oxford Murders") directed
of Alex de la Iglesia , Spain / France / UK, 2008.

Martin (Elijah Wood ), American student looking for academic success, he moved to Oxford to conduct a Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Logic by Arthur Seldom (John Hurt ). Despite the disastrous initial approach, the two are soon involved in a series of crimes that touches them very closely and they'll try to answer as they were a complex mathematical problem.

entertainment usually yellow with few pretensions, but replete with philosophical and mathematical pseudocitazioni a bit 'out of place (and rather "to minchiam ).

The plot is thin, the interpretation of the actors always above or below the lines, the direction is not bad, but, honestly, I think here de la Iglesia has taken a bit 'too seriously or has given up on "letting go".

Lately, it seems that mathematics is an attraction too good for the writers and the writers (of both the size of the small screen) trying to sbolognare crime-stories unconvincing. The result, however, shows all too often the side and, then, should we leave in peace Fibonacci Heisenberg and Wittgenstein and try to strive a bit 'more to give birth any script a bit' more solid.

Attractions? ... Just to save himself from a marathon-Sanremo or direct Big Brother! ...

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" The Informers - screw over the limit "
Directed by Gregor Jordan , USA / Germany, 2009.

novel by Bret Easton Ellis entitled " Water from the Sun" (or. " The Informers") of 1994, the film is an ensemble that tells the story of turning a screw base sex, drugs and apathy in the lives of bored so luxurious as a circle of high society characters losangeliana of 1983, while around them hovers the shadow of HIV.

I never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis , but after " American Psycho" and that " The Informers," I begin to think that his books are not suitable for film adaptation ... or, perhaps, will be only bad luck ...?

After all, the 80 of us that we have lived in the Italian province, between all illusions of Milan fashion Ramazzotti and snacks on the spot of the commercial media, these 80 losangeliani based on money, promiscuous sex e droghe di lusso, sembrano qualcosa di estraneo, quasi alieno.
Il fatto, poi, che il film sia stato prodotto adesso (nel tempo in cui il tronfio edonismo narcotizzato è materia narrativa più che popolare, arrivando addirittura ad avere un filone tutto suo tra le produzioni seriali televisive come " Nip/Tuck " e " Californication ", tanto per dirne un paio), probabilmente incide sull'impatto tematico che poté, invece, avere il libro al tempo della sua uscita in libreria!...

Or dunque, basta infarcire il cast di star controverse e dannate ( Kim Basinger , Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton , Winona Rider, Brad Renfro , etc etc) to make the same damn film on the transposition of one of the authors of fiction maudit contemporary American ?!... The outcome of this movie, I would suggest not and, except for some interesting moments (few, from my point of view), everything seems to end in a saccharine and dragged family soap opera based on those excesses that we coated , poor mortals (thankfully) do not ever live, where the stories of various characters are grazed in a somewhat 'and a tasteless Mechanical rather artificial, stuffed with languid eyes depressed and dialogues on the edge of the tautological ...

From what I read, it seems that the film has been denied the character of a vampire, but that was covered by the literary version. Too bad! ... Who knows that the presence of a supernatural character could not give the text a key to film a bit 'different and slightly more interesting.

From what I saw, in the twinkling of the whole mise en scène film, among the dull platinum hair and pale ingelatinate and minimal-chic interior stand out with a certain strength of character Rourke (who, by now, just show your physical degradation to fill the screen of the decadence associated with its characters) and the shy and insecure vulnerability of the character of Jack, Brad made a great Renfro (here at his last appearance on the screen before the untimely death).

Recommended? ... ABSOLUTELY NO! ... Pace of the writer Ellis, credited as executive producer, but now dissociatosi seen the film once the final result! ...

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" Fur -
Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus "
Directed by Steven Shainberg , USA, 2006.

a long time waiting for the chance to see this movie, not so much by reference to the life of photographer Diane Arbus U.S. (actually, they are very unwilling to gender "biopic") but for the fact that this film came out of the hands of Steven Shainberg , director I was able to appreciate for its previous " Secretary .
finally had the chance, I can now considering my curiosity satisfied. I can not, however, consider also pleased with my (personal) taste of cinema.

The film, indeed little or no biographical, it is proposed in the form of flashbacks to tell a fictionalized interpretation of the progressive detachment of Arbus (played by Nicole Kidman ) from its upper-class environment interwoven with the formalities and time self-consciousness that made the land that inspired rebel camera that his admirers and fans of photography acknowledges.
the late 50's, perfect wife, as restless as subject to the duties that social status requires it, Diane lives with frustrating inconvenience within the frame of glossy sophistication that has been imposed by the family of origin and her husband, fashion photographer, to the day when, in his permanent arrival of a mysterious new tenant and eccentric, drives her to an exploration of your instincts as a woman and a photographer and moves toward what will become of his poetry and marginal monstrous daily.

loosely based on the biography written by journalist Patricia Bosworth , Shainberg's film stands out immediately from any realism to build a narrative tones unreal. Not surprisingly, at the end of the credits, the director is at pains to point out that the events depicted in the film are largely fictional. It seems, therefore, that the key to understanding this curious film text is more than the homage to one of rebuilding.
In terms of narrative fiction, though, I think we can say that the film is even more deficient.

Already in the aforementioned " Secretary " Shainberg gave an excellent example of how to live, telling on celluloid and to represent the legitimate "perversions" human spirit with a light and a large dose of irony, in the case of this " Fur, "this poetry does not work. The staging strict and soft at the same time, the light flat and the pastel-dominant (even in the most decadent interior scenes, such as, for example, l'appartamento di Lionel) non seguono di pari passo gli episodi della vita della protagonista e, ad una regia attenta alle costruzioni visive non corrisponde una sceneggiatura altrettanto interessante.

Lo spunto più interessante di questo film è quello di non badare tanto alla veridicità della storia, quanto di tentare un'esplorazione nell'universo psicologico e visivo che ha caratterizzato l'intera opera della Arbus . L'esperimento fallisce abbastanza in fretta non appena la sceneggiatura decide di svelare tutti i misteri che stanno dietro la porta del vicino Lionel (interpretato da Robert Downey Jr. ) riducendosi così ad una inconsistente storia sentimentale vagamente melodrammatica.

La prova d'attrice della Kidman è valida, sebbene la sua compostezza "imborghesita" sembra più in linea con la parte del film che ho meno apprezzato, mentre Downey Jr. (nascosto da abiti, maschere e peli per la quasi totalità del film) appare quasi schiavo delle commedie da teenager che ha abbondantemente interpretato negli anni '80 e non riesce a regalare al suo personaggio lo spessore che meriterebbe.

Interessanti le scenografie ed i costumi (in particolare le maschere di Lionel), peccato che questi (così come il tema ricorrente dei capelli e dei peli umani ed animali) vengano declassati a semplice elemento di bizzarro leitmotiv superficiale.

Da vedere?... Non so. Penso che a Stanley Kubrick it took was a shot to get closer to the spirit of Arbus more than Shainberg has made an entire movie!

Just curious.