Cinema Cinema

Movie: The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) Language: Spanish Genre: Drama Director: Alejandro Amenábar Year: 2004 Watched on: 23 May 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) This is a touching true life story of a Spanish fisherman Ramón Sampedro who spent nearly 30 years of his life campaigning in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. Ramón (Javier Bardem) is left quadriplegic after a freak diving accident. Ramón lives with his father, brother, sister-in-law and young nephew. Two women are in love with him, Julia (Belen Rueda) a lawyer who herself is suffering from serious ailment and a single mother Rosa (Lola Duenas) who is also a DJ in local radio station. The film is all about Ramóns life, thoughts, emotions and the people who love him. Director Alejandro Amenabar has done a great job and make film look a like a beautiful poem. The script is crisp, performances are brilliant, music is fantastic and cinematography is spellbinding. More than all the ...

Movie: Amadeus Language: English/Italian Genre: Drama/Music Director: Milos Forman Year: 1984 Watched on: 1 May 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) The Cinema adaptation of Peter Shaffers famous play Amaedus by Milos Forman is rich in content full of vivid and colorful images and brilliant music. The subject of the film is the love, hate and jealous relationship of Antonio Salieri who was the mediocre court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph III with Wolfgang Amaedus Mozart and his work. Though it is historically inaccurate account of the things, it still makes a good movie because of the feel it creates. Undoubtedly Mozart was a genius but Antonio Salieris work was never considered mediocre. The entire story is unfolded in flashbacks by Salieri in mental asylum. Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is highly confronted with the gift of music granted by god to the rude, immodest, fancy and footloose Mozart (Tom Hulce). Salieri is in awe of Mozarts music, he can recognize the genius of Moza...

Movie: The Pianist Language: English/German/Russian Genre: Drama/War/Holocaust Director: Roman Polanski Year: 2002 Watched on: 30th April 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) Famed Director Roman Polanski presents extraordinary true life story of a Polish Jew Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. The film is based on the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman and is set during Second World War when Hitlers Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Szpilman (Adrian Broody) is an employee and gifted Pianist employed by Polish Radio. As German forces tighten their noose on Poland, all the Jews in Warsaw are forced to move in to ghetto leaving their processions. Driven to destitution, the Jews are constantly subjected to humiliation, abuse and death by German Nazis. A friend in Jewish police formed by Nazis saves Szpilman by pulling out of a train bound to concentration camp but his family members arent that lucky. Later Szpilman with luck and help of polish friends survives the entire period of Nazi occupation o...

Movie: Talk to her (Hable con ella) Language: Spanish Genre: Drama Director: Pedro Almodóvar Year: 2002 Watched on: 29th April 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) Spanish Writer Director Pedro Almodóvar delivers a brilliant film with a complex story line, complex characters and wide variety of emotions. Simply put, its a story of two men who are in love with ladies who are comatose. One is Benigno (Javier Cámara), a lonely male nurse who has spent most of his adult life happily taking care of his invalid mother and now, since her death, has transferred that affection to a beautiful young BallerinaAlicia (Leonor Watling) left brain-dead by a traffic accident. The other is Marco (Darío Grandinetti), a travel journalist in love with a lady bullfighter (Rosario Flores) who, after being gored in the ring, is also left in a vegetative state and is being cared for in the same Madrid hospital where Benigno works. The two men meet while standing vigil over their co...