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Carla Behm is a thirty-five who works as a secretary in the agency building. Despite his hard work, can not make a career within the company, in a highly sexist when Carla is continually frustrated by his physical appearance is not attractive and it is for its handicap, deafness, which can to hide thanks to a hearing aid.
stressed out from work ever more urgently, a day at the office Carla faints. His boss then decided to add an assistant, Paul Angeli, a guy with no experience just out of prison. Carla immediately feel a strong attraction toward him, as if the boy seemingly misfit who lives on the margins of society we see a bit of herself, and between the two comes a strange complicity.
But Paul has to come to terms with its past.
After suffering a beating in the bathroom of the office, confesses to Carla to have a debt of 70,000 francs Marchand, a shady type who blackmails him. To pay his debt, will be forced to work in local Marchand and leave my job in the company. Carla is a tragedy not want to lose Paul, but does not know how to help him.

few days later, Paul returned to find her and invites her into the room where he works. Carla is an illusion that Paul is going to woo her but he really has in mind a big one against right Marchand which keeps it in his fist. Remember the ability to read lips Carla, intends to use her to find out what they are planning Marchand and his two partners: a robbery at a bank.
Paul and Carla began thus affixed to the roof of the building opposite the office of Marchand and, with binoculars, spying on conversations between him and his accomplices through the window. Carla, at first reluctant, will prove to be smarter than it looks and be able to find out where to hide the loot Marchand. Paul and Carla are now put in motion to steal the money from under the nose and they succeed as well, but Marchand discovered the theft ...

THE FILM
what may at first seem like a classic film of social commentary or essay existential modern era, it becomes a respectable thriller, with a good dose of tension and a very interesting plot. Director Jacques Audiard
managed to pack a good movie, telling the story of two original characters, two anonymous lives, brought together by loneliness and desire for redemption in a society in which they excel the unscrupulous scoundrels. The use of spy shots almost through the keyhole, as if it would violate the privacy of an existence all too normal, bring highlight the details that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

The beginning a little slow, almost mundane, takes us inside the life of Carla, in her frustration at being relegated to second-ever job, despite having more capacity is willing to recognize them in its alone in his small apartment, in the relationship with her friends and their sexual experiences that she can not match, in his handicap, that's a different feel, while trying in every way not to be, in his touchiness, his close to curl toward others not to feel rejected.
The arrival of Paul has an immediate impact in his life. Mandated to choose the right candidate for the post of assistant secretary, despite being aware that now is an ex-con and most inexperienced of the office, decides to hire the same, covers it with colleagues, helping you to learn and Member is also an accommodation to stay, because he wants to give him a chance, because it sees him as another being rejected, being considered a "different" from the society around them.

Paul, after two years in prison for theft and receiving stolen goods, is on parole and tries to find the right way. But not resigned to being an outcast, someone to blame, while trying to stay out of trouble.
will be meeting with Carla for both a change, a change of gear. At both
will use each other to get their little existential redemption, to become accomplices in a robbery against a shady individual. In other words: today me, tomorrow you ... The
turning thriller film is perhaps the strong point. After entering into their world, the director takes us inside the action, ordendo a shot from the dynamics quite original, in which the handicap of Carla reveals that Paul uses a very effective weapon with intelligence to reach his goal.

The two protagonists of victims will turn into "killers", as often happens in reality in people too long oppressed. All in a Paris subway, peripheral and night, far from the pomp and dazzling views of the Eiffel Tower. Although the final, a bit too obvious, satisfies all tastes, without falling into rhetoric or wallow in the drama.
Released in 2001, the film won three Cesar.

THE CAST

Vincent Cassel is Paul Angeli. Known more as
Mr. Bellucci than for his acting skills, I must admit that it was often a very good performer, though too often relegated to roles as tough and bad (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Doberman, The Promise Assassin): roles that can very well but are likely to close in a cliché landlocked. The role of Paul Angeli stands out from its usual role, especially in the understated style, never over the top of his acting. The face-dog of a man tried from prison, sharp and suspicious. A character well defined by Cassel, full of nuances, made a "normal" look scruffy and skinny. A good test of an actor that I really appreciated.

Emmanuelle Devos is Carla Behm .
know very little of this actress and I think I've seen so far only this movie with her as the protagonist. Not beautiful, not particularly gifted, this role is because the fit is everything the character should be.

confess my almost complete ignorance of the French cinema.
not even remember how this is done in my dvd shelf, perhaps as an attachment to a magazine. I only know that it was "unwatchable" for months before I found out. Yes, the verb "discover" I think it suits very well to this movie, because actually it was a great discovery.
first intrigued by the fact that there was only Cassel, who may not be beautiful, but her why (to ask ...), I was favorably Bellucci impressed by the film.
I have never particularly loved the cinema over the Alps, do not even know very well the director, Audiard, if not in name, but I learned a lesson: never before prevented from seeing a film. They take crazy blunders. In this case, positively! It 'also true that can not be considered a masterpiece of cinema, but as the French film industry is no different from years the extraordinary quality of his films, it was right for me to enter a film that had at least somewhat aroused considerable interest.

The start of muted My Lips takes pace in the second half. Left with the frustration and sadness of the two protagonists, you will be dragged into action and in designing a full-blown stroke, as two criminal minds ready to do everything not to give up.
A history traits abnormal, a love story that comes on slowly, but that does not take off if the last frame, not to give in to sentimentality.
Here, in this film about the disabled, former convicts, crime of stalking, but there is rhetoric and above all no malice nor pity. Everything is treated with "normal" even if you feel the inner unease bubbling in the two protagonists.

Everything is shown as a mirror for what is, without roof or ideologies: a cross-section of a given society, is today the world of work or the nightlife of a big city. A good film
European, born in a minor key, perhaps, but certainly not well known to be rediscovered for the originality with which the subjects were treated for the storyline interesting and surprisingly ingenious that the director has managed to create.
Last but not least, a very Cassel: less blowhard, less rude, less bad, more intimate, more real now than good.

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THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Italy 1945. At the end of World War II, a man completely burned, identity unknown, is treated in a hospital ally on the Tuscan coast. On his medical history is referred to as English Patient because speaks that language. The twenty-year old nurse who is treating, Hana , shocked by the atrocities of the war just ended, he decided to stay for some time in an abandoned monastery near Siena, with his patient. Ritrovatasi alone in that desolate place, but a peace that pervaded for so long sought, Hana establishes a relationship of confidence with this strange patient, trying to relieve his physical pain that forced him to immobility and to stimulate his memory to find the lost traces of its past. Thanks also to the book of Herodotus that he had with him, full of notes and photos, as the English Patient begins to relive his past in long passages of flashbacks that bring him back to Cairo, where he was with his friend for a Maddox exploration archaeological site in the Sahara on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society.

E 'in 1939 and world winds of war.

the small group of explorers must be added the couple Clifton, Geoffrey and his beautiful wife Katherine with their new reconnaissance aircraft. The presence of women raises immediately the Hungarian count Lazslo de Almasy, the real identity of the English Patient, a strong attraction: a feeling that at first he tries to suppress in an aura of indifference. Katherine's husband goes on a mysterious journey, so she joins the company of explorers in the Sahara in search cave paintings. E 'on this occasion that Count Almasy discovers the Cave of Swimmers , with beautiful wall paintings dating back to Neolithic times. Stuck in a jeep in the desert by a sandstorm, the two inevitably arises love. Back in Cairo give themselves up to passion, heedless of her husband, who discovers the affair.

Meanwhile, the old monastery is alive with new arrivals: Kip, the Indian sihk responsible for cleaning up the mine area, which falls in love with Hana and the thief Caravaggio Italian-Canadian David , a mysterious man who says he knows a lot about the English Patient. In reality Caravaggio is looking for revenge. Tortured in Tobruk during the war and stripped of two inches, the man is believed to have been sold to the Germans as a spy by the British just Almasy.
E 'moment of truth. Stunned by morphine to ease the pain of burns, Almasy recalls the love affair with Katherine until the epilogue of his life, when she gets injured in a terrifying plane crash before his eyes, led by Geoffrey acceccato jealousy. Trying to save at all costs, the dying leaves in the Cave of Swimmers and partly in search of help ...

THE FILM

Based on the novel Canadian writer Michael Ondatije of 1993, the Anglo-Italian film director Anthony Minghella builds a storyline rich in anecdotes and in some ways too complicated and disorganized.
The English Patient is the third film by the cinematic style and sees a traditional, very Old Britain, of great melodramatic as were fashionable in the years 40-50.
What is undoubtedly the most attractive setting and the contrasting landscapes: the green and ocher of the Sienese hills are opposed to the endless expanses of the Sahara, and dazzling in its immense dunes velvety, alternating with the luxury of the Hotel Shepeard Cairo (rebuilt at the Hotel de Bains, Venice) and the narrow streets of the city's Arab market.

Italy There's a lot in this film, not only in the locations and set (in Cinecittà and Tuscany), but also in spirit and love that the director infuses the images and shots.
The narrative style is perhaps the weak point of the entire work: verbose and as I said before, dispersed with too many parallel stories that might distract from the essence of history. It probably would have been better to focus on one aspect over another of the novel basic, too complex to make it cinematically. The result is still significant but sometimes 207minuti can be heavy.

THE CAST

Ralph Fiennes is Count Laszlo de Almasy .
A role that fits perfectly and conforms to the kind of people who so loves the actor bring to the screen: introverted, tormented, capable of great passions and devoured by sorrow. Her performance won an Oscar nomination (the second for him after that for Schindler's List in the part of Amon Goeth), but was ousted by Geoffrey Rush, star of Shine. His style is dry, never over the top, but rather dignified and touching in his grief and his tears Distraught over the loss of his beloved, gives a portrait of the character very believable.

Kristin Scott-Thomas is Katherine Clifton. The actress recalls
often have long struggled to get the part destined to the most famous actress, but his determination was able to convince the director and then the producers, hesitant to find a pair of actors to appeal to the box below office. A safe bet that he launched on the international scene, even though in my opinion is no longer able to have parts just as interesting as in this film. The character of Katherine, a woman who puts everything in the game of love with passion, volitional traits and sometimes fragile, is a striking proof. Nominated for her.

Juliette Binoche is Hana . Its freshness and lightness that manages to infuse his character, even in dramatic situations, have they done to deserve the Oscar for this film. His character is the most positive story to turn to his others, his generosity but also the frustration and hidden pain makes the character more real than history. His affair with Kip is the hope for the future, represents the rebirth and the desire to start again after the horror of war.
Willem Dafoe is
David Caravaggio. His character is consumed with the bitterness of a life destroyed by war and betrayal and attempts to seek his revenge at last peace of his soul. When we finally find the stories that bind him to the English Patient, Count whisper: You can not kill me. I died years ago with the woman I loved.

The supporting actors who complete the cast are Colin Firth in the role of Geoffrey Clifton (impeccable) and Naveen Andrews in the role of Kip (later seen on the show Lost).

AWARDS

The English Patient won Hollywood and not just buying up awards all over the world. These include:
9 1997 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Sound
2 Golden Globe 1997 : best dramatic film, best original score
6 1997 BAFTA Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Editing
2 European Film Awards 1997: Best Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Cinematography
1997 Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Actress (Juliette Binoche)

The English Patient is a drama, in the truest sense of the word. A Filmon, a melodrama of many voices: poignant, touching and realistic romantic. There are scenes honeyed: the thorny character of Almasy does not indulge in facile sentimentality but is thrown into strong passions, and never indulge at all. When Katherine asks: " And what do you hate most? ", He replied:" The property , be possessed. "His fear of love, perhaps, his fear of letting go with this woman who does not belong because married to another, forcing him to wear a suit of armor not to suffer .

The historical context of the story is often relegated to the background of the story, never lived in the foreground, except in some initial stage, focusing on the relationship of the primary characters and their innermost feelings.
L ' setting old style, almost traditional, like Casablanca, is a feature I love about this film, something that you no longer see a movie, so invaded by the special effects and 3D technologies and the paucity of ideas. A great film of the late Minghella (who died prematurely in 2008), though not very successful. I think that it has reached a higher level from "The Talented Mr. Ripley" onwards. The term "melodramatic unrepentant."

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Alice in Wonderland Movie Christmas

The other day I saw the last work of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland."
not immediately understood that it was beginning a journey into the wonderland of ten years after the first, that of Lewis Carroll's book, and it all seemed a bit inconclusive.
Eventually it all becomes clear!
order to put in his usual light Gothic Tim had to change some things, the classic Alice is strange but happy is a children's story for adults and children remained children.
So here is that Alice has approx. 16 years, remembers nothing of his first trip and draws nearly the same steps should be reversed. But the Mad Hatter is rather gloomy, great Johnny Deep, while the Red Queen is wonderful, a Helena Bonham Carter deformed with a great big head and a tiny body.
In conclusion, there is the spirit of good old Tim, but probably has an encounter with a story too light shades to its palette that want to include a 3D where you feel the need (the square of the director are already too amazing 2-D) at the end leaves a little bitter taste in the mouth, like a missed opportunity.

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PARTY AND DANCE FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE 2010! A HAPPY 2011 TO ALL!

E 'also went to the store the evening of New Year's Eve 2010/2011, the Radiostar spent animating the dinner organized by Caritas Arsenale di Verona "Samaritan." Nearly 300 people have packed the room made available by the City of Verona for a night that has united altruism, sharing, good dinner, but especially music and entertainment. The evening is lived on two fronts: the first part of a playful spirit with dance contests, sing karaoke and open to all participants. Shortly before midnight, instead playing the real entertainment radio station, which continued to the bitter end until the official close of the evening, when the last guest has reluctantly left the dance floor waving the company. Thanks the band is obviously the organization of the "Events Samaritan" who has recruited and all participants who have enjoyed sull'irresistibile to dance music radio station. Be sure to visit the gallery , which contains a few grains ...

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