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The Hunt by That’s-Where-Life-Is -Boom-Vinterberg – a review

by Pier Marton | Jul 28, 2013 | Eco, Health, Review, Spectacle, STL

The mediocre, rational world is my enemy. Well-adjusted is the thing that I hate. Well-adjusted means fearful and cowardly. Some of my best friends are crazy, they don’t give a shit. Boom! That’s where life is! Boom! – Thomas Vinterberg* Many journalists, filmmakers,...

The New Yorker’s DVD of the Week

by Pier Marton | Jul 18, 2013 | Film, Podcasts(E), Review

– not part of my reviews – In parallel to Richard Brody’s column The Front Row… – much richer than a trailer – Get a (free) Weekly Overview of Major Films [available also as a podcast] . – Recent Samplings – Fake, Welles’ masterpiece film-essay with an excerpt from...

The Attack

by Pier Marton | Jul 13, 2013 | Film, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Site, STL, Wars, Women

[This review, on purpose, tries NOT to reveal much from the plot] From tolerance through empathy, compassion and understanding… a lot of (liberal) words are used to allow “the other side” to remain “other”; the question, though, behind this film’s urgency is whether...

The Gatekeepers

by Pier Marton | Apr 17, 2013 | Antisemitism, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Review, Wars

The Oscar Nominated Film’s Website & The Trailer: My review – [Attention: this film does not fit any category nor any short blurb.] “seeing the state as a value is the essence of the fascist conception” & “the sacred cow of national unity” Yeshayahu Leibowitz...

Haneke, a Sadist?

by Pier Marton | Feb 24, 2013 | Death, Film, Review, Spectacle

After winning tons of awards like Cannes’ Golden Palms, the Cesars, the Oscars… one wonders whether everyone is blind to the fact that Haneke seems to focus on the obscene (what should be ob-scena, off stage?). He seems to delight in subjecting his audience to pain...

Holy Motors

by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | France, Humor, Review, Spectacle, STL

My short review: ‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all.’ André Breton. CAUTION: This film, a delirious RIFF around Hollywood’s subconscious, will not increase your “joie de vivre!” Like with Buñuel and Dali’s unforgettable collaboration, “the eye” (here,...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus