![]() Year: 1994 Country: Poland Actors and Actresses: Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik Tags: bathing girl Review: A crow is a raucous, abrasive, unloved bird, and an apt nickname for the lead character in Dorota Kedzierzawska's Crows -- a 9-year old girl who possesses all of the above characteristics (although the first two could be the result of the third). This short and simple film is beautiful not only in its emotionally-honest story but in its cinematography, which won an international award. Crows is about the basic human need for companionship and love, and echoes the age-old theme that no person is an island. The Crow (as the protagonist is referred to) is routinely scorned by her schoolmates and ignored by a mother who's always too tired for her. Eventually, wanting some sort of family life of her own, the Crow kidnaps a 3-year old child and attempts to leave Poland by sea. Most of the film centers around the relationship between these two girls as the older one recognizes that being a parent entails more than giving and receiving love. Director Dorota Kedzierzawska has done a marvelous job of coaxing unaffected performances from her young actors. The movie works because these children are believable. Their relationship is fraught with all the complications and complexities one might expect when a 9-year old with limited patience seeks an outlet for a wellspring of untapped love. Crows has a style perfectly wedded to its plot: fresh, bright, and touching. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 2000 Country: Russia Actors and Actresses: Mayya Shilina Review: Ivan Gromov (Dmitri Soloviev) is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war when a parachute with a cartridge fell on his head. Subsequently, he is forced to tell the story of his life to an army psychiatrist. This device allows ironic distance on the part of the I-narrator Ivan to the events told in the ensuing retrospective of the film. Soloviev further parodies the events through the use of music and intertitles with high-browse quotes on everyday events. In the style of Assa and Black Rose, Soloviev here again manages to portray an accurate, yet ironic picture of the young generation in the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union. While in Assa and Black Rose he was referring to the present, he demonstrates in Tender Age his ability to use the same devices of film narrative to portray the past. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1993 Country: France Actors and Actresses: Laura Martel, Adeline Bodo Tags: bathing girl Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1988 Country: Israel Actors and Actresses: Kaipu Cohen Tags: bathing girl Review: The story of one summer in the life a girl at the start of Israel's history as a country. This girl is Aviya--10 years old, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and former partisan--a women on the edge of sanity. As the story goes on, her mother's situation worsens, Aviya continues to dream of her father, whom she's never seen. Her mother is institutionalized and Aviya is left alone--a girl who had to grow up all at once--in one summer. - www.judaicawebstore.com Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1989 Country: Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Anna Sidorkina, Alina Pavlova, Anya Shulgat, Dinara Drukarova, Lyuda Kurepova, Dinara Tyukayeva, Dasha Yakubova, Daniil Mishin, Sveta Kuzmina, Yulya Stepanova Review: The story takes place in a Soviet sanatorium / boarding school for children with spine conditions. A new girl arrives and tries to find her place among the peers, which is not always easy. The newcomer is subjected to cruelty surprising among kids who share the same problems. - Lance Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1969 Country: West Germany Actors and Actresses: Monique Kraamwinkel, Sacha Kraamwinkel Review: It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 2006 Country: France Actors and Actresses: Mathilde Verkinderen, Garance Le Guillermic, Arthur Vaughan-Whitehead Tags: bathing girl Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1997 Country: Sweden Actors and Actresses: Tove Edfeldt, Bobo Steneby, Anna Gabrielsson, Totte Steneby, Alexandra Dahlström, Katja Steinholtz Skog, Emelina Lindberg-Filippoupoullou, Fredrik Ådén Tags: bathing girl Review: In this Swedish film with semi-autobiographical elements from director Christina Olofson (Lines from the Heart), Nora (Tove Edfeldt) begins a new class at school, hoping for acceptance from the popular Fanny (Alexandra Dahlström) and Sabina (Emelina Lindberg-Filippopoulou), while overweight Karin (Anna Gabrielsson), bullied by the schoolgirls, attempts to become friends with Nora. After Fanny's stereo is stolen by Nora, Karin is accused, and Nora joins the group planning to punish Karin. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1967 Country: East Germany, West Germany Actors and Actresses: Jörg Resler, Karin Heidemann, Gerald Schraml, Wolfgang Hinz Tags: boy skinny dip, girl skinny dip Review: A group of children play a game on their island home of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. They revise an ancient heathen ritual one cold March day by standing in the frigid water. The one who lasts the longest in the icy cold will be referred to as the king of Kummerow. They befriend a poor shepherd who is something of a social outcast, and the group makes fun of a pompous preacher and the mean, miserly miller who tries to drive their shepherd friend out of town. The children rejoice when their nemesis the miller is hauled off to jail to pay for his past crimes in this engaging, heartwarming story. West German producer Walter Koppel used an East German crew, taking advantage of a recently developed color process called Orwocolor. - Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1992 Country: Netherlands Actors and Actresses: Maarten Smit, Gineke de Jager, Derk-Jan Kroon, Tatum Dagelet Tags: bathing boy, bathing girl Review: Based on the autobiography by Rudi Van Dantzig, "For A Lost Soldier" takes place during the end of WW II in the Netherlands. It's the story of a young boy in Amsterdam whose parents send him to live in the country (Friesland) for his own safety. A family who had initially asked for a young girl ends up being young Jeroen's "adoptive" family. Jeroen is coming of age, being the tender age of 12, and is making discoveries on his own, especially his sexuality. He doesn't necessarily understand his feelings at first, until the arrival of the Canadian Liberators in 1945. One particular soldier, Walt Cook, takes an interest in young Jeroen and a friendship blossoms between the two. Heit, Jeroen's adoptive father, sees that there is more to their friendship than meets the eye, and lets him know that he sees what's going on. This doesn't bother the other soldiers, however. In fact, as other soldiers are courting young girls in the village, so does Walt "court" young Jeroen. The two fall in love with each other, and a sexual relationship does indeed develop. Perhaps it's Walt not wanting to face the hurt Jeroen will eventually face, but he fails to tell Jeroen that his platoon will be leaving. Jeroen is crushed when he realizes that Walt is gone the next day, and tries in vain as he searches the village for him. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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