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Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams

No other art medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can.

Ingmar Bergman

REVIEWS

Jauja (2014)

Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.

Io e Te (Me and You, 2012)

Bernardo Bertolucci is directing again and his last film Io e Te is an adolescent emotional drama that can still impress the fans of the Italian director.

A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Syllas Tzoumerkas' sophomore feature is a powerful sociopolitical drama that juxtaposes the cynicism of the troubled Greek society while the middle-class decays internally.

Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Dalibor Matanić makes a different post-traumatic approach of the Yugoslav wars as love has to stand in front of any inter-ethnic conflicts.

L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance, 2011)

Bertrand Bonello's provocative tableau vivant that explores the female sexuality set in a brothel at the turn of the 20th century.

QUOTES

Gian Maria Volonté: Ogni film è politico

Ogni film, ogni spettacolo, è generalmente politico.

Chris Marker on time

Who said that time heals all wounds?

Pasolini e gli italiani

Intelligence will never have much value in the collective judgment of this public's opinion.

A cinephile’s wish

André Téchiné responds as a true cinephile to the question by Colette Descombes in Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)

Żuławski on pleasing the majority

I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment