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Interested in:Avant-garde / Experimental, Crime, Drama, Historical Film, History, Language & Literature, Mystery, War

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Citizen Kane

Piecing together of a life
By madhuri_agrawal in madhuri_agrawal Blog
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"Citizen Kane is about the life of a newspaper tycoon, who begins his career on grounds of idealism but eventually gets enamored with the smell of success, and leads his newspaper into a very yellow and very popular journalism. His single-minded and overbearing pursuit of money, fame and power leads to his eventual alienation with his friends, lovers and principles. The movie begins with his death and traces his life through interviews with people he interacted with.Its true that the plot of the movie is not terribly path-breaking. There are a lot of movies which are loosely based on the lonely man at the top. However, Orson's rendition of the theme is nothing short of perfection. He has turned the biography in a mystery, as a newspaper reporter attempts to understand the meaning of Kane's dying word - 'Rosebud', which leads him to reconstruct the tycoon's life.Then there are several subtle depictions like the breakfast scene between Kane and his first wife Emily ... " [More]

La Notte

Brilliant Antonioni
By madhuri_agrawal in madhuri_agrawal Blog
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"La Notte is the story of a night in a couple’s relationship - Giovanni & Lydia – It is a night both in the physical and metaphorical sense of the word. A culmination of what perhaps was a shining relationship, into the dusk of coldness and indifference – leading to the dark hour of perhaps eventual separation. Antonioni, in his typical style which says more through gestures than words, has taken the viewer though this painful sequence of distancing. It makes you wonder why two attractive people who have each other would seek the company and affections of others. In the beginning, this ‘other’-ly interest is subtle. Giovanni’s interest in a nymphomaniac, Lydia’s glances towards streetwalkers. That they are no longer ‘together’ is highlighted by Lydia’s otherworldliness in the presence of her husband. The estrangement is mutual – and it is because they both seemed to have married a concept rather than each other &n ... " [More]