In this list I would like to share the films made and seen last year that we found to be good, based on the principle that they spoke to us from a philosophical, literary-historical or purely visually enjoyable perspective. Usually one casts a glance at such lists to reassure oneself that everything on it has already been seen.
No person's life is insignificant; no one is superfluous or incapable of finding someone for whom they matter and are needed. The latter happens precisely when you are fully honest with yourself and concentrate not on licking the wounds life has carved but on what is happening around you, on the people beside you, on the goal that must be reached in order to reduce suffering and increase love for humanity.
Rarely does a film with flavour come along. This one has it. Moreover, it can certainly become a favourite among both men and women, as the film balances the tense spy plot with an all-encompassing passion in the sensual scenes between the main characters.
Without doubt, LOW PROFILE is a mood film. The plot or the thought contained in it might still be debated, but in my view it was an excellent idea to include in the film the poetry of Gatis Zotovs, which is truly enjoyable. In any case it is a pleasure to see fellow people who are doing, creating and telling the story of their neighbourhood, their environment, their city, their country.
At first magnificent, overflowing with colour and form, breathtaking with the vastness of deserts and the grandeur of mountains. Full of life and movement. Pure and sacred. Then suddenly harsh, direct, showing the face of death, poverty and degradation. Like a magnificent mandala made by Buddhist monks - and like dust.
There is no simple answer to what this film is really about - whether a classic love triangle, social class differences, or the witchlike mysterious nature of woman that lures men to the edge of a cliff and the unwary fall... Eroticism - that is probably the right word for the character of this film's presentation. I recommend watching it!
Trier's films are grounded in love, forgiveness and evil - with the last being the oppressive, dominant force in people. Evil cannot be resisted with love and forgiveness. The only escape from evil is to physically destroy it.
A film that many have hastened to label a new conspiracy theory; others in turn see it as the beginning of a new ideology, a new order - that which will come after capitalism, for capitalism has outlived its time.
A truly masterful escalation of emotion in the face of inevitable destruction. Such is the film "Melancholia" by controversial Danish director Lars von Trier. For a fuller impression I recommend watching it on the big screen.
Another good film watched, which I want to recommend to iinuu.lv readers. It is a 2010 French-Belgian co-production "Sans laisser de trace" (in English "Traceless", in Russian "Без улик"). The film's central insight: every person has three keys that open the doors to success. They are talent, work and luck.