MIASTO 44 is polish for “City 44” and refers to 1944 and the Warsaw Uprising. I’ll watch this film just because a certain Mads Hjulmand (@MadsHjulmand refers to himself on twitter as “one mean acting machine”) plays a certain Hermann … sometimes (scandinavian) actors do have that effect on me. If it hadn’t been for Alexander Skarsgård I’d never have watched MELANCHOLIA … to my great, great loss …
The Viennese Vampire comedy THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE (Der Vampir auf der Couch) by director/author David Ruehm is like the famous alpine Republic Austria herself: Charming, playful, witty … and a little darkish around the […]
Yes, it is a Vampire flick. Yet, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE is much less and much more than that. Less: It totally lacks the jolly-ghastly-fun of TrueBlood and the gothic blood thirst of your average […]
Forget Westerns – there’s a brilliant Northern you’ll need to see: KRAFTIDIOTEN is a thriller with expert comical relief at exactly the right times. Nils is a Swedish immigrant in Norway, who has just been elected […]
(c) Elisabeth Schabus
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