Lost on Purpose: a brilliant life-style story

It’s quite easy to understand that the budget available for Lost on Purpose (trailer here) was limited. Maybe it’s because I worked as a screenwriter on a film that had perhaps even less resources than this, and I think you can feel the hard work and sacrifices on your skin when something similar comes to you.…

Yves Saint Laurent: fashions fade, style is eternal

A look in the life of French designer is coming on the big screen. This year is for sure the biopic year on the big screen. It’s out now The Wolf of Wall Street, based on the story of the American stockbroker, Jordon Ross Belfort with Leonardo Di Caprio. Also coming is Ralph Fiennes‘ biopic…

A New York Winter’s Tale: what if we become Stars?

This is not a true story. This is a true love. A New York Winter’s Tale as the title itself says is a tale based on Mark Helprin’s nearly 700-page novel. Helprin’s story is complex and articulated and really difficult to fit for the screen. The movie is co-produced, written and directed by Akiva Goldsman,…

Cavemen: love is a perfect moment that never ends

Cavemen is a low budget and even lower-impact movie by writer and director Herschel Faber. The mean character is American Tv Star Skylar Astin. Astin plays in TBS sitcom Ground Floor and  like in the movie, he is a bland, morose young man’s search for love. But if the TV show, which has recently completed…

Only Lovers Left Alive

In a distorted  atmosphere, a perfect cast transports  us into a story that basically talks about love, with the alternative nature typical of Jim Jarmush. To crown this feeling almost otherworldly are ethnic music and night environments to carry us into the world of Adam and Eve. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a centuries-old vampire.  He…

The Invisible Woman: suffering is stronger than all other teaching

Intimate and intelligent, Ralph Fiennes‘ second effort as director is the story about the affair between a mid-aged Charles Dickens (Fiennes) and the young actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones). Their relationship, after the first meeting (when Nelly was a new actress in Dickens’ play The Frozen Deep) grew deeply but slowly. The writer found for…

Lone Survivor: We can be Heroes

Peter Berg and Taylor Kitsch are a consolidated combination. But with Mark Wahlberg, they become a war machine. Perhaps this trio is the real strength of this film, or maybe it’s a great and painful story that needs to be told by images because it should not be forgotten by the world. Lone Survivor is…

About Time

After the heartfelt  TV movie Mary and Martha, Richard Curtis returns to the big screen with the comedy-drama  About Time. The music of Nick Laird-Clowes and a London by candlelight, are the backdrop for a dramatic comedy where the mix of  pink and gray hues of life reminiscent  Love Actually. The good and the bad of…