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Dogtooth

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Dogtooth 

Dogtooth, The 20 three children – two daughters (Mary and Aggeliki Papoulia Tsoni) and son (Hristos Passalis) – have no names, but have blind enthusiasm for the way they have been conditioned to live. Nobody blinks an eye when the mother announces that she will give birth to a baby, maybe two, and a dog. Why would not she?

“Dogtooth”plantes a foot in both worlds surreal and banal, with unpredictable behavior occurs in a context of apparent domestic placidity. At some point, we get used to strange rites that populate this household – even at their most cruel and bizarre, with sudden bursts of violence disrupts the normal manufactured. Thimios Bakatakis frames of each photograph rigid static action against the bare walls mostly from home, lull us into a false sense of security similar to what the father and mother must get so carefully control the lives of their children.

But the illusion is bound to disintegrate, and the father he brings upon himself by introducing Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), a security guard to satisfy his sexual desires of the son in the family. Sex scenes in the film are without blinking uncomfortable with the sex itself conducted a series of passionate, stiff motions.

For the son, which seems to be enough, but Christina pushes her influence beyond her girls, and sexual behavior incongruous that the results (licking of body parts, erogenous or not) are just the beginning. VHS tapes find their way into the house, which leads to hilarious attempts incorrectly cite Rocky and Jaws, and culminating in a riveting scene, move from Jennifer Beals Flashdance. This sequence illustrates the remarkably broad range of problems that the universe closely monitored to identify these people, from the superficial (the effect of films) to the fundamental

S’écroule”’Dogtooth a small world, the third feature from director Giorgos Lanthimos Greek, and a film that is filled with details both delightful and disturbing. A lot to do business (Christos Stergioglou) and his submissive wife (Michele Valley) create a home from another world for their three children are governed by arbitrary conceptions of law and language. Here the word “zombie”, a small flower, cats are predators and vicious world beyond the confines of the driveway is completely off-limits, including death.

BIUTIFUL

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on BIUTIFUL 

BIUTIFUL, (AP) – Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu said Tuesday he is honored by the nomination for best foreign film for “Biutiful,” an Oscar category of Mexico has not yet won, despite seven previous nominations.

Inarritu has also said he is pleased that the Spanish actor Javier Bardem was nominated for best actor in leading role in the film.

“It is a distinction and recognition for me and all the contributors who made this film possible,” said Gonzalez Inarritu network Televisa. “It’s a great way to end a long process, four years of struggle and job. “

The Director thanked the Mexican Film Academy to choose his work to represent the country and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the nomination; his second in the category after his 2000 film “Amores Perros”.

Movies of Greece, Algeria, Canada and Denmark were also nominated.

“The truth is that I have not had the opportunity to see other movies, but surely they are films of high caliber,” he said. “I know the competition and it is out of our hands.”

“Biutiful” deals with the lives of immigrants in Barcelona and tells the story of a father, played by Javier Bardem, who knows he will die and discover the meaning of life and love.

“It made me very happy to see Javier named first because I think he deserves it and made a monumental work,” said Gonzalez Inarritu.

He said he felt a rare and extraordinary sensation of being nominated for a film that has no happy ending and lack of “some elements that would be obvious to the academy.”

Also “Biutiful” and “Amores Perros”, the other entries from Mexico into the category of best foreign film was “Macario” (1960), “Animas Trujano” (1961), “Tlayucan” (1962), “Proceedings of Marusia “(1975),” The Crime of Father Amaro “(2002) and” Pan’s Labyrinth “(2006).

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