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El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Unbelievable characters, predictable plot
The film depicts how people were coping with the circumstances of 1940ish Spain and how a 12 year old girl tries to get by in a hostile environment with the help of fairy tales and her own imagination.
Sadly the characters and their actions are unbelievable and exaggerated, sometimes borderline stupid, which annuls any sympathy you might feel for them. Characters are 2 dimensional, and their motivations are even less built, even though the creators had 2 hours to portray them.
The plot is well built and interesting with a dual layer story of the real world and the protagonist's dream world. The cinematography is well done, especially the blurry differentiation between the visuals of dream and real world.
Overall a disappointment, the mediocre acting, the unbelievable characters and their lack of common sense ruins the overall experience.
4/10
Egészséges erotika (1986)
The Greatest Ever
Hmmm... My favourite! Péter Timár's best work. He tried to copy the feeling several times since then (1985!!!).
The film is a sarcastic but charming point of view about the communist era in the 70's or 80's. The banning of eroticism, the concept of pointless producing at all costs. The manager and the supervising fireman of the box factory lure customers by installing a fire-protection camera system throughout the factory including the women's dressing room. But when the ladies find it out...
The strange camera handling (most of the shots and the movements are filmed backwards, and then reversed, giving the characters a funny behaviour) and the non-realistic conversations and phrases make the film extraordinary and funny. Most of the ideas in the film were contrived during the filming by the whole crew. And let's not forget about the great actors who make this film complete and perfect!