Im Spinnwebhaus 2013

Im Spinnwebhaus 2013
1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy | 31 March 2016 (Germany)
Storyline:
Jonas is already head of the family at just 12 years of age. He has been helping his two younger siblings and supporting his mother, Sabine, since his father left. Sabine is very loving towards her children but she often loses her patience and disappears into her room for the day. Mysterious demons drive her to spend a weekend away to relax in the "sunny valley". But the weekend grows into weeks in which the three children hear nothing from their mother. Food and money have long since run out, the house has become more and more like a haunted castle: a spiderweb house. Jonas tries his best to maintain the appearance of an intact family. On the hunt for something to eat, he meets a young man, Felix Count of Gütersloh, who speaks in rhymes and declares himself to be not quite right in the head. Rather like a guardian angel, he takes Jonas under his wing and shows him how to get by in a world without adults. The film is less a social drama than a modern-day fairy tale shot in black and white. The audience is immersed in the eerily beautiful world of the children which unfolds its own particular magic.
User review:
Childhood tends to be portrayed sentimentally – an understandable outcome when authors and filmmakers (and advertisers) want to show the innocence and imagination of a period interrupted by adulthood.
Im Spinnwebhaus, a new film by Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt, takes another approach to this idea by way of fairy tales. When his mother departs suddenly, needing respite from her mental "demons", Jonas is left to care for his younger siblings, Nick and Miechen. As their mother's weekend absence drags into weeks and money and food dwindle, the house becomes a cave of childhood fantasy: bugs as pets, bed sheets for walls and a roof covered in spiderwebs.

Le Diable Dans la Peau 2011

Le Diable Dans la Peau 2011
1h 22min | Drama | 27 March 2013 (France)
User review:
Xavier and Jacques are two brothers grew up in the shadow of a difficult father and a grandmother who seems carved in the pain of the crudest fables.
Their childhood have shaped the absence of the mother, long dead, who knows why, and have forged with hard scales of suspicious looks, who does not expect too much from a world that has already taken so much.
Living of their bond, it being, who aspires to the immutability of the myth, the firmness of the trees that rise to the sky, to the strength of the rock. And together they face the world, in the hope that this-sufficient to each other is not crumbled by adults.
Jacques, the little one, just seven years and a shelter under an old tree where they could be alone with the memory of her mother, a child is apparently more difficult. Immersed in nature to the neck of each bird he is able to recognize the species and play with butterflies and insects as if they were little friends want to name, and a space in the world. Intelligent, yes, but difficult to place in provincial schools where the children look up, in the evening, the football games on TV. Him a small change in his life would also be willing to accept it. He does not mind going elsewhere, in special schools, with other children more like him.
Xavier, meanwhile, has the clotted violence on his hands in a perpetual gesture of defiance. Can not bear to see his father hang around the house with the memory, in the eye, the wars fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. It can not stand that friends ask of a mother who did not even appear in a dream. And especially does not like the idea down that take away the little brother destined to another school, to leave him alone with peers who do not understand and do not understand it.
Thus, newly Hansel and Gretel the two small run away from home without even the footprint of the crumb of bread to mark the road and live a few days of their last summer together wandering stray, fishing fish in the river, climbing on trains without a ticket and without half.
Gilles Martinerie, director of this Le diable dans le peau, chooses for his work the way a dried drama that never tries, even for a moment, the easy narrative empathy for boys. The story, if anything, it advances to the enviable photographic beauty paintings, while a string quartet, which has forgotten the street Debussy and if anything thought to dissonances, comments from this sad tale predestined to the tragedy.
French cinema is also confirmed in this film its gentle inclination to the vision of childhood. If The War of the Buttons, presented out of competition at the International Film Festival of Rome, tells us, however, the sunniest side of childhood that knows how to be ray of sunshine even in the most blacks, Le diable dans le peau is instead , the singing of the other side of the moon, the torment and anguish of being children in a deaf and blind world.
The director reveals immediately a superb director of actors, with the children to perfect each shot. But is primarily a singer at times rabid tales where the fairies are just distant extras.
(google translated)
Director: Gilles Martinerie
Writers: Gilles Martinerie, Nicolas Peufaillit
Stars: Quentin Grosset, Paul François, Francis Renaud

In Their Room Berlin 2011

In Their Room Berlin 2011
1h 1min | Documentary, Drama | 11 June 2011 (Israel)
Storyline
The latest episode continues to voyeuristically document what goes on in the minds and bedrooms of urban gays. In Berlin, Mathews lingers on the tension and circular nature between intimacy and loneliness by documenting a handful of Berliners -some single, some coupled, some hooking up- over the course of one day.
User review:
In Their Room: Berlin de Travis Mathews é um documentário centrado nos quartos de um conjunto de homens homossexuais e nos quais estes falam sobre as relações, a intimidade, a vida numa grande cidade neste caso concreto em Berlim ou até mesmo onde os vemos em actos sexuais explícitos desprovidos de qualquer barreira ou tabu.
De uma trilogia que para além de Berlim apresenta o mesmo conteúdo nas cidades de San Francisco e de Londres, In Their Room apresenta-se como um documentário sobre os dilemas da vida um um variado conjunto de homens que partilham única e exclusivamente a sua orientação sexual mas, na prática, mais não é do que um registo quase forçado daquilo que ocorre dentro dos seus quartos.
Exibicionista quanto baste e muito pouco documental sobre aquilo que poderá ser uma vida real, pois afinal poucos ou nenhuns serão aqueles que passam dias e dias sem fim dentro de um único quarto, In Their Room perde-se num deambular exibicionista e pouco documental que o realizador efectua durante pouco mais de uma hora e que na prática mais não é do que um registo pessoal do seu ideal sexual e erótico e com o qual pretende obrigar o espectador a acompanhá-lo nos seus devaneios libidinosos.
Pouco conhecemos dos intervenientes para além da sua necessidade quase extrema de viverem solitários livres de qualquer intimidade cúmplice, no entanto, aqueles que Mathews decide acompanhar mais detalhadamente são exactamente os que declaram abertamente não pretender estabelecer grandes laços de intimidade para além daqueles necessários para a satisfação da sua própria sexualidade momentânea e que satisfazem graças aos mais variados canais virtuais, e que são, esses sim, detalhados com uma precisão algo desnecessária para quem afirma pretender "registar o que acontece na individualidade de cada quarto".
Assim, In Their Room: Berlin, e possivelmente os outros dois documentários que formam a trilogia, mais não é do que um registo exibicionista e de certa forma voyeurista a que o realizador se propôs (e nos propõe), afastando-se de qualquer objectivo documental que revelasse ao espectador um olhar sério sobre as ditas relações, a intimidade, a sexualidade e até mesmo a vida de uma minoria sexual, limitando-se a estabelecer-se no domínio da porno-chachada e de um exibicionismo frio, seco e longe de qualquer sentimento sendo, na sua essência, um "documentário" onde tudo se apresenta mecânico, programa e, acima de tudo, excessivamente despropositado.
Director: Travis Mathews
Writer: Travis Mathews
Stars: Toby Ashraf, Horian, Jorsten

Explozia 1982

Explozia 1982
Drama / Válečný
Československo, 1982, 63 min
Režie: Anton Majerčík
Kamera: Alojz Hanúsek
Hrají: Roman Backo, Roland Samek, Jan Vlasák, Tomáš Žilinčík, Eva Matejková, Erik Jamrich, Vlado Müller, Anton Mrvečka, Vladimír Kostovič, Anton Šulík, Viliam Polónyi, Štefan Mišovic, František Javorský, Štefan Servátka, Augustín Kubáň
Plot:
TV movie about people who are actively involved in the Slovak National Uprising. Television adaptation of the eponymous prose Ruda Moritz.

Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964

Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964
1h 14min | Comedy, Family | 1964 (Italy)
Storyline
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
User review:
When I was 10 I watched this movie and loved it. When I was 20, I loved it more. This is an almost unknown gem of Soviet cinema, and now I enjoy it even more. The movie is not only a very funny comedy with excellent children and adult actors, but a perfect parody of Soviet life, of the relationship between society and Soviet power. The leader of the camp is so stupid and suspicious, that he turns people one by one to "resistance fighters", living in "illegality". The ordinary "citizens" of the camp don't know who is the informer, but they do their best to help the persecuted ones. In the beginning of the 1960's, Khrushtchev suddenly let to publish one of Solzhenitsyn's books, and to make movies like this — and then the short springtime was over, and the bold masterpieces like these were buried for the next 25 years under the gigantic heap of dull books and films. If you won't laugh a lot watching this movie, write me angry letters!
Director: Elem Klimov
Writers: Semyon Lungin, Ilya Nusinov
Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova, Ilya Rutberg