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My 2016 or 24 films by 24verite

The official selection of the 24 films that marked the cinematic year of 2016.

Drama, Jerusalem 2016

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Aquarius – Jerusalem 33

In his sophomore film, Kleber Mendonça Filho penetrates Brazilian falsely beautified society through Sônia Braga's stunning performance.

REVIEWS

La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV) – Jerusalem 33

Albert Serra’s cinema once again reaches the boundaries of experimentalism as he explores the historic figure (and death) of Louis XIV. Wilf Family Foundation Award at the 33rd Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

A film of marginal pairs’ balance that move among realism and fantasy, hope and disillusionment, justice and injustice, heterosexuality and homosexuality, AIDS and life.

Medeas – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A new approach of the myth of Medea set in the rural countryside of the Southern California, by Andrea Pallaoro.

Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)

Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.

Kreditis Limiti (Line of Credit) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

Salomé Alexi is dealing with the sensitive issue of financial crisis in the post-Soviet Georgian society seen from a female point of view.

QUOTES

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions

The language of the image is emotion.

How to make a bed

Films teach you how to live, how to make a bed.

Pasolini: L’anarchia del potere

Nulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuole

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem

Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: "You see," he says, "now that’s formalism."