Brief review of passages:
Passages is amazing. The film is fun. I imagined that I was an actor or director who has a lot of sex with the female star who also plays a flight attendant in that one movie…I am inspired by this movie to do something artistic and famous. I hate to say it, but the truth is that before I saw this, my life was about eating. After this movie, I want a new life that is more fashionable, fit, and famous. Franz Rogowski is always inspiring in his pictures, the way he can create a dramatic moment and portray the right demeanor. I liked the way he dealt with his girlfriend’s mom, when she said something over the line. I loved the ending, because it was soothing but still not melodramatic.
Brief review of AFIRE:
Christian Petzold’s newest is good. There are so many bad pictures out there. I saw a movie called Dogs the other day that was so bad I wanted to walk out. Petzold loves to make the plotline that has a surprise twist at the end, that makes you say “Ooh” out loud. I identify with the moody writer protagonist. The ticket seller even told me that I remind him of him. It was the kind of movie that takes a looooong time for the action to kick it. It was most exciting in the last ten minutes.
AFIRE features a mind-bending ending, when there is a very sad twist of the plot and it is spliced by images of lovers holding each other preserved for centuries in lava from the explosion of mount Vesuvius in Pompeii.