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Hansel & Gretel

Original title: 헨젤 과 그레텔 (Hen-jel-gwa Geu-re-tel)
Country: South Korea
Year: 2007
Director: Pil-Sung Yim

A man searching for himself, struggling with a family who will not or is not ready to handle, he finds himself wandering through a forest Having had a crash.
Like magic is rescued by a girl who takes him to her gingerbread house (well, not literally, but almost ..) where there are two others to receive tender loving children and two parents from the sugary smile.
Everything is perfect, fairy tale, except that shortly after strange things start to happen: phones that do not work, roads that disappear, that seem impenetrable forests, beautiful and sweet and groceries too good to be true, plush toys and animals from dream, etc etc etc. ..

A dream, a story, a journey in feelings and emotions are often hidden or concealed, a sweet patina that covers the horrors and sufferings so great and inexplicable to be found only through the atonement young and naive world view that only children are capable of offer. A look innocent on the adult world and its perversions, a film that touches and involves multiple levels, so many as to be difficult to describe without falling into banality.

visually rich and imaginative, brilliantly interpreted and shared by four players who seem to embody their characters perfectly conceived, directed flawlessly. Maybe sometimes a bit 'simple, but is not this the advantage of being small?

to see, hard to forget.

Rating: 9

Are Scorpio Men Flirts

Rampo Noir



Original title:
Rampo Jigoku Year: 2005
Country: Japan Directed
:

Akio Jissoji		(episode "Kagami jigoku")
Atsushi Kaneko		(episode "Mushi")
Hisayasu Sato		(episode "Imomushi)
Suguru Takeuchi		(episode "Kasei no grease)

4 episodes by as many stories 江 戸 川 乱 歩 (Edogawa Ranpo, real name 平井 太郎, Taro Hirai), contradictory Japanese author lover Westerners who go to novels from yellow to Edgar Allan Poe.
undoubted star of the film is Tadanobu Asano in the role of detective in charge (officially and unofficially) to resolve cases at the edge of the surreal and impossible.
Whatever the sick imagination of the stories represented here, what seems to emerge from the characters is a general feeling of malaise, loss of identity and the search for a new dimension in which to live in peace with themselves but not so much with that that you can not change its existence in extreme attempts to mutation, mutilation, alteration, immortality.

A film that speaks of hardship, loneliness, pain .. but also love, as may appear distorted or ill.
A movie that makes real the concept of Art and the declines in 4 new forms, frightening and fascinating at the same time disturbing. A film
inconvenient, uncomfortable. An alien
film tremendously and perhaps alienating alienation is, however, that daily bread, slamming in his face and making us aware of what actually pre-exists in the depths of every human being: the only excuse is probably the inability to give relief, or 'absolute lack of control otherwise.


A man who can no longer distinguish reality from reflection and eventually vanish in the mirror in which it would like to live, a woman who loves and hates allo stesso tempo il marito in maniera così distorta e sbagliata da distruggerne il corpo per poi seguirlo nel dolore, in comunione con un concetto di arte che va oltre alla perfomance, oltre all'opera pura; un uomo che soffre terribilmente di fronte ad ogni minimo contatto col prossimo ma torturato dall'amore folle per una donna, che lo porta ad un estremo gesto di annullamento e di trasposizione in quel mondo di sogni e illusioni che, anche se in modo tragicamente diverso, compare in tutti gli episodi.
Il tutto legato dalla figura di Tadanobu, uomo in conflitto con la propria esistenza e la propria definizione, uomo in perenne lotta con l'odio per la moglie inferma e l'odio per un se stesso che non basta più, che non esiste più se non nella duality of man and woman that we spot in the first minutes of this amazing film.

Rampo Noir is not an easy film to digest, I do not even call the film .. probably in a mad search for a definition of a work of art is precisely this path to hit the "public" much of its contents.
Magistrale, despite the simplicity of a director is not always up to the poetry of the script.

terribly difficult, ugly at times .. but missed.

Rating: 7.5