INFINITELY POLAR BEAR ****
Conflicts among family members have always been present since the beginning of existence, and now more than ever there is an urgent need for comprehension between generations and between parents and children. There’s a barrier dividing these two generations, the older looking forward to catch up with the advances of modernity, the younger being introduced into life relying on these advances. The aspects of conciliation and understanding each one’s needs, engaged in the rules of unconditional love, are transported back to the 70’s in this moving and alarming tale about parents struggling to raise their children, facing financial, physical and emotional challenges. Mark Ruffalo confirms his talent as the lunatic father, deserving to be honored as one of the best actors in contemporary cinema. He embodies the conflicts of his disturbed character, suffering from a bipolar disorder, anxiety and reckless behavior with magnificent perfection. An ever higher challenge will put the family’s safety at risk, when his wife, played by Zoe Saldana, gets a job offer in New York, leaving him with the responsibility of caring for the two young daughters in their Boston home. This is an opportunity for him to realize he needs to control himself in order to help his children grow, and a chance to claim his family back. Delicate, uplifting and somehow melancholic, director Maya Forbes created a heartbreaking call for family restoration. Don’t miss it.
TRIPLE REVOLUTION
Ken Loach’s new film “Jimmy’s Hall” recounts the story of the man who conducted a dancing hall in a small village in 1920’s Ireland, where they also educated the community, raising a violent dispute with the Church and the Authorities, leading to his exile. Beautifully acted and crafted with Loach’s usual sensibility for stories about human rights, the film depicts prejudice and intolerance with an accurate immediacy**Sex-boozed-filled swing-comedy “The Overnight” promotes a few dirty and suggestive laughs focusing on the reunion of two completely different couples in a dinner party in Hollywood, where they will try many forms of pleasure but before that, they will explore themselves, including private fantasies and penises’ sizes. The actors are convincingly good and the result is a funny wild ride despite most of it feels predictable**Foreign sensation “The Tribe” is a presumptuous mistake that only proves its intent to shock and disturb with the exploitive material. The film follows a group of deaf and mute youngsters, as it is seen through themselves with no sound at all. To make things worse, the distributor believed the film should be shown as it was in Cannes, with no subtitles or specific narrative. For over 2 hours the viewer must endure patiently a confusing story, with no soundtrack, and filled with explicit and unnecessary brutal violence, graphic sex, abortion, prostitution and criminality. The film portraits their silent World as a much worse place than ours. Is that so?
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