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Showing posts with label Daniel Brühl. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
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The Face of an Angel sets its sights on the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, still an open wound in the public consciousness. We instinctively crave digestible narratives of heroes, villains and victims: characters that these events refuse to provide. Villains become victims, heroes become villains and, after years of analysis, evidence and testimony, we’re no closer to knowing what really happened in that Perugia flat than we were the day after it happened.
Winterbottom chooses to approach the case through meta-narrative. Our lead is Thomas (Daniel Brühl), an analogue for himself who recognizes the fertile soil of a high profile murder in Siena and explores how he could transform it into worthwhile cinema. Early on the character receives some advice that’s essentially the film’s manifesto: “If you’re going to make a movie, make it a fiction. You cannot tell the truth unless you make it a fiction.”
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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On paper Formula 1 is incredibly exciting. Exotic courses, huge crowds and cars that represent the pinnacle of modern mechanical engineering. Yet I find watching it on TV a bit boring. The helicopter tracking shots provide little sense of speed, the screen is crammed with data and there's advertising everywhere. The cars seem to politely process along a line, playing everything as safe as they can - it's difficult to suppress a groan when you realise there's 50 more laps of this tedium. Rush is different. Rush is a battle of personalities, a simple struggle between two sportsmen elevated to the status of mythological epic. Rush, much like the cars it depicts, is streamlined: everything unnecessary has been stripped away, leaving a taut, dynamic and really, really exciting movie.
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