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Reviews
Jonas (2018)
Strange and Boring Movie
My rating can be a bit biased because I normally don't enjoy watching thriller or suspense movies very much, but this movie was simply lacking what makes it a true thriller or suspense.
Also, the idea of switching between current time and the past using numerous flashbacks doesn't really help in making the movie more interesting. It rather makes it confusing and and harder to understand.
I would have preferred the story line to be told from beginning to end focusing on their teenage lives.
All together, I didn't really enjoy the movie. It lacked any real romance or depth in the plot or message. Like what did I learn from this movie? What emotions should I carry on? That someone followed someone else's life because he reminds him of an old friend?
The ending also doesn't make any sense.
Never watch a movie again that has the same writer and director cause all the other movies I saw written and directed by the same person were more or less a waste of time and completely boring.
Après le sud (2011)
A move about nothing
From previous experience, it seems like all the movies who are written and directed by the same person seem to be a failure. And this movie is no exception.
I couldn't watch it past the minute 23 because there is simply nothing to follow. First it's a scene about an old man polishing a shotgun, then the about an middle aged obese woman waking up and leaving her home to travel in a car. Then, it's a scene about her daughter who works in a supermarket. Barely any script with too many silent scenes.
Avoid and save your time on something more interesting cause I don't get the point of this movie at all. About people who are just bored with their life? I got bored just watching it.
Nés en 68 (2008)
Slow, boring, unfocused and confusing plot
In short: This film is a waste of time. I came here thinking I will see a good French drama or an engaging autobiography of the lives of some free-spirited college students from 1968, but none of that happened. The movie simply follows the life of the main female character whom I forgot her name, and her friends and multiple lovers, and then later her children whom we see grow up. But nothing interesting and nothing makes you want to relate to the film. Kind of like watching a soap opera all glued into one very long film, but without anything worth watching. After watching the first hour and half, I decided to increase the speed of the move to 1.25 faster than 1.5 faster, then finally I decided to fast forward all the way to towards the end and even then I didn't finish it. Simply a waste of time that didn't make me feel anything.
PPPasolini (2015)
Terrible movie, waste of time.
I find it hard to believe that people can make movies of such poor quality. This movie fails on even the basic criteria that make a good movie: poor script, terrible acting, terrible directing, actors speaking English like they have just learned a few words (with mistakes in grammar, pronunciation). Oh, and the camera keeps moving so frequently it seems like the person who filmed this is holding the camera for the first time (even an amateur with some filming experience can do a better job than this).
Don't waste your time, and find something else to watch.
Love (2015)
A movie to avoid
I couldn't watch this movie past the first 20 minutes or so, and even the last few minutes felt like I was forcing myself to continue watching and being extremely patient as I was already bored and fed up. Too many flashbacks, average or below average acting, and uninteresting characters.
Somefarwhere (2011)
Interesting plot with a well-developed action story!
I don't know why some people here have reviewed this film so poorly. Jealous much or is it just some kind of inferiority complex because perhaps they failed to become a director or writer themselves?
As a native Middle Eastern and a native Arabic speaker, I found this film well-developed, exciting, interesting, and full of action and suspense to keep me engaged and surprised at every scene, not knowing what will happen next. I found the acting pretty good, the directing also good, and the overall scenery and appeal quite realistic.
From the looks of the landscape and the story, and Arabic dialect spoken by the Arabic characters, this film was probably filmed in Jordan. It's the only country with such a landscape and neighboring war-torn Syria. It cannot be Iraq or Lebanon based on the desert landscape and the fact that Iraq is simply unsafe to travel for non-essential purposes.
For an LGBT film, and compared to many other films I watched in the same LGBT genre, this movie is actually pretty good. Well-done Everitt Lewis! Great screen play and pretty good directing.
Pahat pojat (2003)
The best Finnish movie I've seen so far!
Wow, just wow! I cannot say more than I just really enjoyed watching this movie. A combination of action, comedy, based on a true story.
Highly recommend. I wont' say anymore.
Vi (2013)
Disturbing relationship with a touch of racism
The woman is torn between her disturbing relationship with her boyfriend and between her job as a school teacher where she is often bullied by one of her students, a black boy of what appears to be mixed ethnicity.
One the one hand, her boyfriend is jealous, insecure, possessive, and can be even physically aggressive. On the other hand, the mixed race black boy keeps making sexual passes at her inside the classroom which begin subtle at first then become more direct and clear until he explicitly insults her towards the end of the movie.
Ida (the woman) has one friend, a fellow teacher who doesn't like her boyfriend, nor is she liked by him either, and she seems to be making her relationship with her boyfriend worse as she is always giving Ida advice that doesn't suit her over-possessive and jealous boyfriend.
Interesting drama, but what is the reason for this racism? Why does the perverted boy in her classroom have to be black? Is this how Swedes view foreigners with darker skin? That they are impolite sexual perverts making passes at their teachers. Racist movie indeed.
Dalida (2005)
Better than the 2016 film
I prefer this one over the 2016 film which in my opinion was too shallow, confusing, and directed in a strange way which omitted too many important details, while giving often biased views of her life.
This 2-part TV film however also omits a large part of Dalida's life (the first 22 years of her life in Cairo, Egypt) where she was born and participated in several activities including her 1955 Miss Egypt Beauty Pageant which led her to participate in several Egyptian movies, until finally a French director discovered her while filming The Mask of Tutankamoun in Luxor, and persuaded her to try her luck singing in France.
Seems like both directors of this movie and the 2016 one don't want to show any details about her 22 years of living in Egypt. What a shame since she was already well-known in Egypt before moving to France and becoming an international star there. I'm sure a lot of fans would have liked to see what life in Egypt was like back in the 1950's-quite a modern, cosmopolitan, prosperous place to be full of people from different parts of the world including other Italians like Dalida's family, Greeks, Armenians, British, and even French.
Dalida (2016)
Enjoyable, but lacking a lot!
I really enjoyed watching this movie since I'm a huge fan of Dalida and her music so I really wanted to learn more about her life story through a biographical film like this one. This film however seems to fall short in several aspects, and I will try to list them all here with further explanation.
First of all, the film spends too much time using flashbacks going between the present, the past, and then to the present/future again, which creates a lot of confusion and makes you wonder, what point in time are we in exactly? Which events happened first? Are we now watching Dalida in the present or the past or something else? Flashbacks can be a great way to tell different parts of a story, but using them in excess like in this film and in such a disorganized way really just brings down the level of enjoyment of watching the film. Considering the film is about 2 hours long, the first 40 minutes or so of the film involved almost non-stop flashbacks between Dalida's attempt of suicide to her past relationship with Luigi Tenco, to her childhood, back to her psychiatrist's office, and back to different events. What is the director's point of view in all this? It just creates confusion and doesn't serve the movie well in my opinion.
The second point is the choice of cast. Anyone who knows the real Dalida knows that she had a real presence and physical beauty that showed off on and off her stage. The actress who played Dalida did not have any physical resemblance to her and I was not convinced for one moment that I am watching Dalida. It just feels like I'm watching someone "pretending" to be Dalida, almost like an old MTV program where an ordinary person dresses and gets a chance to look like a famous celebrity for one whole day. I can't remember the name of this program now. Dalida for sure did not have such huge mouth with flawed teeth like the actress who played her in the movie, and her eyes were not the same. Her whole face in fact has no physical resemblance. Not much effort was made with makeup to even make her look like Dalida. They changed her hair styles a few times to match Dalida's different styles through different periods of her life and made her wear the same dresses and clothes. That was it! Considering that we were supposedly watching her life story from 1956-1987, I didn't see her face age one bit through almost 30 years of her life. Was she immortal? Not a single wrinkle in her face, eye bags, receding hair line, all makes you wonder if this was just a low-budget production.
Third: the sex scenes. I really don't understand what is the point of adding so many sex scenes almost with every lover that Dalida was involved in. Is this an erotic movie or an autobiographical drama about the life of a celebrity? I'm not even sure if some of them were factual considering that it is very hard to know such intimate details about a celebrity like what she was doing in bed and with whom.
Fourth: Anyone who knows the life story of Dalida knows that she spent the first 22 years of her life in Cairo, Egypt (her birth country). Yet, we only saw Dalida's life in Egypt for barely a few minutes as an infant and as a child with her family. What about her adolescence and her life as an adult woman? In reality, Dalida was a rising star and well known person in Egypt thanks to winning the Miss Egypt beauty pageant in 1954, and participating in several films including her main role in the Arabic film Sigara we Kass (A Cigarette and a Glass) by the Egyptian director Niazi Mostafa also in 1954. Why were all these details omitted from the movie?
To make it even worse, we did not even see the development in her rise to fame in France-only just a very brief instant of how she was invited by Lucien Morisse to sign a contract for his music label. We didn't really see or understand how she left her family and entire life in Egypt, and how she arrived in France initially, or even how she decided to start a life as a singer, considering that she was previously an actress in Egypt.
Fifth: The music and Dalida's songs in the film. Simply there are too many songs in the film, which don't really serve the plot well. Yes some of them have lyrics which relate to that moment in her life and tell us how she feels or what is going on, but this also makes it difficult to understand the background behind these songs as we often see her singing a song with different events or things going on in her life quite quickly at the same time that the song is playing and without going into enough detail. This also leads me to ask: Is this a drama or a musical? Playing too many songs in the film while watching other events unfold at the same time just makes it shallow and lacking any depth that is important to understand the drama in her life.
Overall, an enjoyable film to watch, although it is quite shallow with many events unfolding very quickly and many others entirely omitted from the plot like the first 21 years of her life in Egypt.
Al-yawm al-Sadis (1986)
Not worth the time
If you are not a fan of Youssef Chahine or Dalida, it is really not worth the time. I only saw this movie a couple of times because of Dalida and the second time I watched it only because I had nothing else to do.
In general several actors who really have poor acting skills including Mohsen Mohie El Din who plays Okka, and Dalida who speaks Arabic with what seems to be a strong European accent and playing a native Egyptian woman from rural Egypt-not convincing at all.
There are many shots were I barely understood what the actors were saying or what was going on because the script or their performance was so poor.
The few actors who did a good job only had small roles at the beginning of the movie and we didn't see them again and these include Shweikar, Salah El Saadani, and Sanaa Younes.
The rest seems like a mediocre, and it seems like Youssef Chahine desperately wanted to make a movie with Dalida.
Brødre (2004)
A movie about love, death, war, and family
This is only my second Danish movie to watch. In all honesty, I thought the pace and acting was a bit boring, but maybe because I already knew what was going to happen from reading the plot and user reviews of the movie.
Just a few remarks: The language that they spoke in Afghanistan is actually Arabic. That is a mistake since people there speak Afghani and not Arabic.
After watching about 1 hour and 15 minutes, I had to fast forward and skip to the end. The plot reminds me of a classic movie with a similar story so it wasn't very interesting for me.