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Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Woody's best in last decade.
I went to see this film a bit skeptical, because Woody's last movies were not his best ones. In the last ten years, he has made funny, entertaining films; some quite interesting, as "Decontructing Harry" or "Sweet and Lowdown", but generally unimportant. But wit "Melinda and Melinda" he has made one of his most brilliant films. As in "Crimes and Misdemeanors", he mixes two different stories -a dramatic one, and a light comedy-. The result ins quite different; this movie is not as critic as that, but is really enjoyable. He mixes a drama -serious, deep, with well-built characters, and really credible- and a delicious comedy -with really funny quotes, and moments that recover his best of the 80's-, with a lot of talent, because the two stories complete each other, the movie doesn't creak.
Radha Mitchell is wonderful as the two Melindas: suggestive and content in the drama; innocent, tender and funny int he comedy. And Will Farrell, who takes the 'Woody Allen role', is the best choice he has done for that purpose ever- because instead of imitating Allen, he creates a new character, human, pleasant and funny. The script is great; with parallelism and second interpretations- And the movie is really entertaining. I hope it will get the attention it deserves; and I expect Woody Allen to keep this new walk in his career. (9/10).
The Dreamers (2003)
A brave, intelligent movie
I saw it last weekend, knowing hardly no thing about the movie, unless that for some critics it was the best movie in Venice. And I found it a great surprise. I´m just 18, so I saw some films of the nouvelle vague but i can´t be emotionally involved in may´68, because before the movie I hardly knew things about that fact. In the film it´s just the context, because the story itself is a love-sexual triangle quite ambiguous; different of most cinema love triangles, out of the topics. The actress Eva Green is just superb on this movie, the two actors are good as well. I think in the next years we will hear talk about them, spcially the girl and the american.
Bertolucci mixes the movie with excerpts or classical movies, specialy nouvelle vague ones. And it is a thing I love about the feature, because it really deals with the context. The script is brilliant, much more critic than it is expected, with intelligent questions.
About sexual scenes, they are very brave and reallistic, but quite interesting. It is far from porno, scenes are exciting, very well made, not just sex. They are very explicit, but i wouldn´t censure the film for the US, it´s not for children but it is not a subversive film. Te soundtrack is just brilliant. The final song from edith piaff (non, je ne regrette rien) is the best Bertolucci could have chosen. I give it 9/10