V paprscích slunce (2015)

aka Under the Sun 

Slo naslov: -

Angleški naslov: Under the Sun

Država: Češka, Rusija, Nemčija

Jezik: Korejščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 106' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Dokumentarni

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Vitaly Mansky

Scenarij: Vitaly Mansky

Igrajo: Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong

[ENG]

Zin-Mi is both excited and flustered as she prepares for supreme leader Kim Jong-il’s birthday celebrations. She gets all the help she needs from her well-situated parents – a factory engineer and an exemplary employee of a prosperous company. While this image of the model family might appear relatively untarnished, just like everything else in a closed communist country, it bows to the dictates of propaganda. The supervised crew were given the go-ahead to film in North Korea on condition that they wouldn’t deviate from the approved script. With the aim of conveying the reality of life in the DPRK, however, respected director Vitaly Mansky decided to leave his camera rolling beyond his prescribed shooting schedule, thus exposing the extent of the manipulation involved in staging the various events. The outcome is a formally refined piece which somewhat uncomfortably reveals the underside of an official rendering that clings to iconography, mythmaking and distorting idealisation. The film also considers the crucial value of human freedom, something that can’t always be taken for granted. [KVIFF, Sandra Hezinová]

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The script of this extraordinary and revealing film, about an ordinary family in Pyongyang, was assigned to the filmmakers by the North Korean authorities. The crew was accompanied at all times by minders 'to prevent us from getting lost'; the locations were pre-selected; the performances orchestrated to depict suitably fervent levels of patriotism. All the footage was scrutinized by DPRK officials to check for mistakes in showing a typical family in 'the best country in the world'. It's no wonder that the smiles start look a little forced. What's more unexpected is just how much Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky is able to reveal despite, and often because of, the stringent restrictions imposed upon him. 
[Screen Daily, Wendy Ide]

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Chevalier (2015)

Slo naslov: Chevalier

Država: Grčija

Jezik: Grščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 105',  Imdb

Žanri: Komedija, Drama

Slo recenzija: Mladina, RTV SLO MMC, Filmstart

Režija: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Scenarij: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari

Igrajo: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orphanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Yiorgos Kendros, Sakis Rouvas

[SLO]

Via Kinodvor

Šest moških na razkošni jahti sredi Egejskega morja sklene odigrati igro. V tej igri se bo veliko primerjalo in merilo. Testiralo se bo kri in pelo se bo pesmi brez posluha. Prijatelji bodo postali tekmeci in tekmeci bodo postali lačni. Toda na koncu popotovanja, ko bo igra odigrana, bo zmagovalec mož, ki je najboljši v vsem. Na mezinec si bo nadel pečatni prstan zmagoslavja, tako imenovani "chevalier".

Suh, sarkastičen humor in hladna distanca odlikujeta najnovejšo vivisekcijo absurdov človeškega vedenja v režiji prve dame mladega grškega filma, ki pod drobnogled tokrat vzame moško tekmovalnost, skupinsko dinamiko in "krizo srednjih let". Igralska šesterica je prejela skupno srce Sarajeva za najboljšo moško vlogo.

Vselej mi je najtežje opisati, od kod izvirajo moji filmi. Ne pripravljam jih na tak način, ne rečem si: 'Okej, zdaj bom posnela film o moškosti ali o šestih moških na ladji.' Nikoli ne začnem z zgodbo, pač pa z nekaj podobami in splošno predstavo o situaciji. Po Attenbergu sem posnela srednjemetražec The Capsule. Gre za pendant k filmu Chevalier, ki prav tako govori o moči in nadzoru znotraj istospolne skupine, le da so tu vsi liki ženski. Fascinantno je bilo videti, kako se razmerja moči in želje razvijajo, če iz enačbe odstranite spolno dinamiko, ki je navadno na delu znotraj heteroseksualnih skupin. /…/ Zdelo se mi je, da bi bilo zanimivo nekaj takega poskusiti še s skupino moških, prav tako v omejenem prostoru, ki ga ne morejo zapustiti. Attenberg se je odvijal v utesnjenem okviru zapuščenega industrijskega mesta. Moj prvenec Sposojeni spomini je bil umeščen v hotelske sobe v bližnji prihodnosti. Zanima me vzpostavljanje razmerij v nadzorovanih prostorih, ki so za tri korake odmaknjeni od realizma. Nisem še povsem prestopila v naturalizem. Mislim, da zaenkrat preizkušam formo, ki ji pravim screwball tragedija – ta je deloma komedija zmešnjav, deloma grška tragedija.

[Athina Rachel Tsangari]

[ENG]

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.

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Weiner (2016)

Slo naslov: -

Država: ZDA 

Jezik: Angleški

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 96',  Imdb

Žanri: Dokumentarni 

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman

Scenarij: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman

Igrajo: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Amit Bagga, Adam S. Barta

[ENG]

Serving seven consecutive terms, Anthony Weiner, good friends with and political allies to the Clintons, was once a highly respected member of Congress from New York City, he seen as a man sticking up for the every day person. That all changed in June, 2011 when he was forced to resign in disgrace after admitting that he did tweet lewd "headless" photos of himself from his public Twitter account to women he met online, and that it was not the work of a hacker or that the photos were of someone else. At the time, his wife Huma Abedin, herself a key aide to Hillary Clinton, was pregnant with their first child, she who decided to stand by her man. Two years later with Abedin still by his side, Weiner tries to resurrect his political career in a run for New York City mayor. He realizes that he has an uphill battle not only because of the known previously tweeted photos, but that there are other lewd photos from that era that may also come to light during the campaign. Regardless of the ... [Imdb]

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The dizzying rush of Weiner is that the phenomenon it captures — a political culture in which candidates are round-the-clock addicts of image control — becomes, by the end, a powerful premonition of the current presidential campaign. The achievement of Weiner is that the movie shows us what that looks like — and the crushing toll it takes not just on democracy, but on reality. 

[Owen Gleiberman, Variety]

[RT Critics Consensus]

Weiner uses sharp insight and untrammeled access to offer a portrait of a political and personal collapse that's as queasy as it is undeniably compelling.

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Army of One (2016)

Slo naslov: -

Država: ZDA 

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 92' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Komedija

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Larry Charles

Scenarij: Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman

Igrajo: Nicolas Cage, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rainn Wilson

[ENG]

Gary Faulkner (Cage) is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God (Brand) telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.

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Sunset Song (2015)

Slo naslov: Pesem somraka

Država: VB

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 135',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama 

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Terence Davies 

Scenarij: Michael McDonough

Igrajo: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Mark Bonnar, Ron Donachie 

Via Liffe

[SLO]

Vizualno impresivna pripoved epskih razsežnosti, ki prek človekove povezanosti z naravo osvetljuje težak položaj žensk v prvi polovici prejšnjega stoletja. 

Chris se kljub prelepi naravi, ki jo ponuja škotski Aberdeen, ne počuti dobro. Življenje na deželi je trdo in neizprosno, njen oče pa pravi tiran brez posluha za kaj drugega kot kmetovanje, še posebej za njeno skrito željo, da bi zapustila domačijo in postala učiteljica. Chris spozna Ewana, se z njim poroči in se odreče svojim sanjam. A ko njen mož ob začetku prve svetovne vojne obleče uniformo in odide, ji ne preostane drugega, kot da se doma z vsem močmi bori za samostojnost ... Filmska priredba prvega dela trilogije A Scots Quair Lewisa Grassica Gibbona.

Želim, da moj gledalec verjame, da sem poskušal povedati resnico. To bo morda dolgočasna resnica, saj vsem nisem po volji, zame je treba imeti izbran okus. /.../ Film sem posnel iz srca. Vse, kar prosim, je, da ga gledate s svojim, in če vam ne bo všeč, morate to izraziti.

(Terence Davies)

[ENG]

Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Years of high hopes and of disillusionment, of mirth and sorrow, of dreaming and toiling, of sweetness and violence, of love and hate, of peace and war. And in the end, the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land, the earth eternal... [Imdb]

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War Dogs (2016)

Slo naslov: Vojni psi

Država: ZDA

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 114',  Imdb

Žanri: Komedija, Krimi, Drama

Slo recenzija: Mladina, RTV SLO MMC, Koridor

Režija: Todd Phillips

Scenarij: Stephen Chin, Todd Phillips

Igrajo: Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, Jeff Pierre, Valentina Lucia Faltoni, Barry Livingston

[SLO]

Jonah Hill in Miles Teller kot trgovca z orožjem. Zabava je zagotovljena!

Film je režiral Todd Philips, zaslužen za trilogijo Prekrokana noč, po neverjetni resnični zgodbi o dveh dvajsetletnikih Davidu Packouzu in Efraimu Diveroliju, ki sta uspela podpisati 300 milijonov vredno pogodbo s Pentagonom za oskrbo z orožjem zaveznikov v Afganistanu. V filmu ju spremljamo sredi absurdnega vrtiljaka političnega sveta mednarodne trgovine z orožjem, zaradi katerega bosta obtožena za prevaro.

Dva prijatelja (oskarjevi nominiranec Jonah Hill in Miles Teller) z Miami Beacha med iraško vojno s pridom izkoriščata slabo poznano vladno iniciativo, ki manjšim podjetnikom omogoča, da se priglasijo za pogodbe za sodelovanje z ameriško vojsko. Začneta skromno, počasi začneta pridobivati vse več denarja in si privoščita življenje na veliki nogi. A kmalu se znajdeta v godlji, ko dobita posel za 300 milijonov dolarjev, prek katerega naj bi orožje prodajala afganistanski vojski – pri tem pa morata sodelovati s precej sumljivimi posamezniki, med katerimi so tudi predstavniki ameriške vlade. [Kolosej]

[ENG]

Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events. [Warner Bros]

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Dobra žena (2016)

aka A Good Wife

Slo naslov: Dobra žena

Angleški naslov: A Good Wife

Država: Srbija, BiH, Hrvaška

Jezik: Srbščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 90',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama

Slo recenzija: MMC RTV SLO

Režija: Mirjana Karanović

Scenarij: Mirjana Karanović, Stevan Filipović, Darko Lungulov

Igrajo: Mirjana Karanović, Boris Isaković, Bojan Navojec, Jasna Đuričić, Ksenija Marinković, Vlado Kerošević, Hristina Popović

Via Liffe

[SLO]

Celovečerni prvenec priznane srbske igralke Mirjane Karanović, dognan psihološki portret ženske, ki nepričakovano odkrije resnico o preteklosti svojega navidez popolnega moža.

Milena je petdesetletna žena in mati, z udobnim življenjem v enem prestižnejših predmestij Beograda. Neguje svoj videz, se videva s prijateljicami ter predano skrbi za svojega moža in družino. A počasi se v njeno urejeno življenje pritihotapi neprijetna resnica: nekega dne med pospravljanjem stanovanja naleti na videoposnetek, ki priča o grozovitih zločinih njenega moža med nedavno vojno v Bosni in Hercegovini.

Razmišljala sem o ženski, ki je v resnici ljubljena žena enega od vpletenih v vojne operacije v Bosni. Poskušala sem jo razumeti, ugotoviti, kaj se plete v njeni glavi, saj sem bila vsa vojna leta popolnoma drugačne oseba od nje. Bila sem dejavna, dajala sem intervjuje, bila sem protivojna aktivistka s številnimi govori. Zato gre za zgodbo o povprečni ženski srednjih let, ki nikoli ni podvomila o svojem življenju, nikoli globlje razmišljala o ozadju njenega lagodnega življenja. 

(Mirjana Karanović) 

[ENG]

Milena is a middle-aged wife and mother ensconced comfortably behind a gate in an upscale suburb of Belgrade. She quietly tends to her looks, dutifully cooks and entertains, and meets her friends for choir practice. She makes love with her husband and they socialize jauntily with a group of old friends. But unsettling realities are beginning to seep into Milena’s consciousness and disrupt her ordered world. One day while cleaning, she happens upon a videotape that incriminates her husband in horrific war crimes. A Good Wife is the story of how this secret reverberates in Milena’s life and eventually changes her. [Crossing Europe]

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Bacalaureat (2016)

aka Graduation

Slo naslov: Matura

Angleški naslov: Graduation

Država: Romunija, Francija, Belgija

Jezik: Romunščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 128',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Cristian Mungiu

Scenarij: Cristian Mungiu

Igrajo: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Valeriu Andriuta

[SLO]

Via Liffe

Christian Mungiu, prvo ime romunskega novega vala, nas postavi pred etično dilemo o korupciji in vprašanju vzgoje otrok v trenutkih, ko je koruptivno dejanje edina mogoča izbira. 

Romeo Aldea je 49-letni zdravnik iz Transilvanije, ki je svojo hčerko Elizo vedno vzgajal z obljubo, da bo po dopolnjenem osemnajstem letu odšla študirat v tujino, kjer bo živela bolje kot v Romuniji. Njegov načrt je blizu uresničitve, saj Eliza dobi štipendijo za študij psihologije v Veliki Britaniji. Zdaj mora samo še opraviti maturo, kar pridni dijakinji ne bi smelo povzročati težav. Incident, ki se zgodi dan pred prvim pisnim izpitom, pa nepričakovano ogrozi njen odhod v tujino. Romeo se znajde pred dilemo: Kako se lotiti problema, pri katerem nobena rešitev ni v skladu z nauki, ki jih je kot starš uporabljal pri vzgoji svoje hčerke?

Posplošeni miselni in vedenjski vzorci postanejo norma - postavljajo etične omejitve, tudi v družbah, v katerih se vsi pritožujejo zaradi korupcije. Seveda, govorimo o korupciji drugih, ne o lastni. /.../ Kaj lahko stori posameznik zoper svet, ki je tako zastavljen in tako deluje? /.../ Zakaj bi moral biti žrtvovan prav moj otrok? 

(Cristian Mungiu)

[ENG]

Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams - a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter. 

[Cannes International Film Festival]

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Black Mirror (2011– ) (3.sezona)

Slo naslov: -

Država: VB

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 5x60, 1x90' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Triler, ZF

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Joe Wright, Dan Trachtenberg, James Watkins, Owen Harris, Jakob Verbruggen, James Hawes 

Scenarij: Charlie Brooker

Igrajo: Bryce Dallas Howard, Wyatt Russell, Alex Lawther, Mackenzie Davis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kelly Macdonald, Malachi Kirby  

[ENG]

Black Mirror, the acclaimed anthology series that taps into our collective unease about the modern world, comes to Netflix for its long-awaited third season. Touted by Stephen King as "terrifying, funny, intelligent" and "like The Twilight Zone," each stand-alone episode blends themes of technology, anxiety and human relationships, leading to an unforgettable -- and sometimes unsettling -- conclusion.

E1 -- Nosedive

In a future entirely controlled by how people evaluate others on social media, a girl is trying to keep her "score" high while preparing for her oldest childhood friend's wedding. 

3,5/5

E2 -- Playtest

An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, but soon can't tell where the hoot game ends and reality begins. 

3/5

E3 -- Shut Up and Dance

When withdrawn Kenny (Alex Lawther) stumbles headlong into an online trap, he is quickly forced into an uneasy alliance with shifty Hector (Jerome Flynn) - both at the mercy of persons unknown.

3,5/5

E4 -- San Junipero

In a seaside town in 1987, a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time.

3/5

E5 -- Men Against Fire

Future soldiers Stripe (Malachi Kirby) and Raiman (Madeline Brewer) must protect frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious feral mutants. Technologically, they have the edge - but will that help them survive?

3,5/5

E6 -- Hated in the Nation

In near-future London, police detective Karin Parke (Kelly McDonald) and her tech-savvy sidekick Blue (Faye Marsay) investigate a string of mysterious deaths with a sinister link to social media.

2,5/5

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Under sandet (2015)

aka Land of Mine

Slo naslov: -

Angleški naslov: Land of Mine

Država: Danska, Nemčija

Jezik: Danščina, Nemščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 100' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Vojni, Zgodovinski 

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Martin Zandvliet

Scenarij: Martin Zandvliet

Igrajo: Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Laura Bro, Zoe Zandvliet, Mads Riisom, Oskar Bokelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel, Karl Alexander Seidel, Maximilian Beck, August Carter

[ENG]

Based on extraordinary true events, writer/director Martin Zandvliet’s stunning, multi award­winning new film is a nail­bitingly tense thriller about a group of young German prisoners of war in Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which examines both the repercussions of retribution and the value of forgiveness.

In the days following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, a group of German soldiers – most barely out of their teens – are put to work by their Allied captors. With minimal training, they are sent to locate and disarm their own hidden weapons that still litter the beaches along Denmark’s west coast, under the supervision of a righteous and embittered Danish sergeant, Rasmussen (Roland Møller, in a superb performance). Scornful of the Germans for their five­year occupation of his country, and intent on punishing what’s left of their army, he ruthlessly marches his squad out on the dunes each day to prod for mines. Yet this risky task soon challenges even Rasmussen, who grows

more and more conflicted in his feelings toward his young charges.

War stories abound in cinema, but few have so eloquently focused on the resultant hangovers of conflict and occupation. Featuring arresting performances from the ensemble cast, and breathtaking cinematography that balances the apparent calm of the coast’s pristine beaches with the nerve­wracking knowledge of what lies beneath, Zandvliet’s powerful and morally complex tale is riveting viewing, with a potency that echoes Peter Weir’s Gallipoli and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker but an impact truly of its own.

[Palace Films]

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A little-remembered chapter from WWII’s immediate aftermath in Denmark is dramatized in “Land of Mine.” Martin Zandvliet’s third directorial feature is a tightly focused narrative that can hardly help but build considerable tension and poignancy, given that it centers on Axis boy soldiers forced to remove still-live land mines that their side left behind at war’s end. Chosen as the kickoff feature for the Toronto Film Festival’s new juried Platform section — which Piers Handling’s stage intro defined as dedicated to “bold, innovative, challenging films from mid-career and emerging filmmakers” — it should parlay good reviews into decent sales among discerning offshore distribs and outlets. 

[Dennis Harvey, Variety]

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