SLOW WEST ***
In the last few years, Michael Fassbender has been collecting complex figures in his career, and with “Slow West” he confirms his status of an irresistible sexy villain as an outlaw partnering with a young Scottish teenager searching for a pair of fugitives in order to claim a reward. Amazingly shot with stylish saturated colors of the heat in the old west, John Maclean’s comedy has the influences of Sam Peckinpah, demonstrating lots of resemblance with Tarantino’s style. The irreverent humor, the mystery and motives of the duet and the unexpected twists in the narrative, such as the sudden explosion of violence, makes it a promising directorial debut for Maclean.
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Despite lots of profanity, including the outrageous lines straight out of the Bible, “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is a catastrophic, funny and noisy spectacle with incredible visual skills, which fits well to escape from the heat. An orthodox Jewish family is confronted by the young wife’s unsatisfying life style, when she decides giving up on her family to follow a man she became involved with in Maxime Giroux’s “Felix and Meira”, a melancholic modern fable about the instincts of love and the barriers that must be broken. Based on a story by Albert Camus, “Far From Men” brings another fantastic performance by Viggo Mortensen, as a schoolteacher moved by compassion to save a remorseful murderer who’s on the run after killing his cousin. Director David Oelhoffen directs the story with preciseness and vigorous details of time, landscape and emotions. Academy Award Nominee Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s gathers famous stars in her first-English project, “Aloft” to confirm her sensibility with the feminine universe of love, family, abandonment and co-dependency. Jennifer Connelly plays a mystical woman trying to reconnect with her son, whom she abandoned many years ago. The narrative travels in time, explaining the characters’ decisions and their efforts to keep the family together. Delightful, inspiring and contemplative, “Love at First Fight” follows two youngsters as they learn of each other, gradually falling in love while enlisting to a Military training camp in the seashore of France. Directed by Thomas Cailley, the film won the César Award for Best Actress for Adèle Haenel, the new revelation of French Cinema.
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