All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Jean-Luc Godard
…is written on the wall at Künstlerhaus cinema in Vienna. Last week the international film festival Viennale started here. At least this year I managed it to get tickets for a few movies – it’s sold out every year.
We started with an argentinian movie, Vagón fumador. The highlight of the story is the conversation about “everybody has a price”, makes you think, the rest of the movie and story is way too slow. Then we watched Takeshis’, a cranky self ironic show of the big narcist Takeshi Kitano – well worth seeing! Of course, only if you like nearly endless japanese yakuza gunfights.
On friday I went to see Manderlay by Lars von Trier. A cynical portrait of our society which basically asks one question: do situations for other people and cultures improve when we – the so called western modern society – obligate them to take over our rules? It’s simply a masterpiece, the story and realisation of the movie.
Yesterday we watched Zuihaode Shiguang (Three Times), a couple in three different eras, three different contexts. If you’re one of those who enjoy silence then this is your movie, especially the second episod is a very calm and silent one. Like the most south-east-asian movies this one is as well very beautiful and stylish, well done.
Update:
The last movie I went to was Good Night, and Good Luck. by George Clooney. What I got from this movie – I’m no citizen of the US, thus my knowledge about that specific part of recent american history is very limited – was a lesson in high standard journalism and what media in free countries can (or better should) stand for.
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