Sunday, March 17, 2013

Moonrise Kingdom



Being an adult is to forget that the games of children, with their shared rules, their imaginary scenarios and their plastic guns, are a very serious thing. Fortunately for all, Wes Anderson, the same author who eleven years ago introduce us to The Royal Tenenbaums, never became an adult and his films have kept the atmosphere from a fantasy world built during school break.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Impossible



A mother will do anything for her children. Starting from little things, like exchanging sits with the eldest of her three children on the plane that is taking the family to spend a nice holiday in Khao Lak, Thailand, so that he will not argue with his younger brother. This happens a few seconds before the sound of the turbine breaks the tranquility of a blue and cloudless sky, as if it were a warning. The unthinkable can alter what we see in a blink.