satyaki majumder

Tears My Heart apart to see such a GEM to have such a low rating. Has one of the best Ending scene in Film History. It is a beautiful heart wrenching epic love story against the backdrop of major political shift in the world. Can innocence win against the evil ? Can love last the tough times of absence and seduction ? Can we have a world without war ? Can two souls meet again ? Can you please rate this movie highly ? Beautiful Screenplay , no , excellent Screenplay; psst nah, everything I say would be an understatement. Awesome Acting and character shifts. Nice Cameo by my man Jack !

Why can't the world make films like this !! Would you believe the magnificent performance from Deborah. 100% recommendation from my side

Short, Sad, Sweet, powerful and very underrated. ! It talks a man, who has done his time in jail for a murder conviction, and he is finally finding his way back home to whatever is left of his childhood memory Tim Roth is as smooth as ever. But my award would go to James Russo(the elder brother) the supporting actor for his twisty, tangy role. He really took out the depth and the darkness of the character. He played the role of a brother, the elder one, who has a lot of love for his brother but his casual nature forbades him to show that. He is lost in the toughness of the society and has yielded to the wrong ways. Escaping from woman to woman, from debts to debts, he is way too deep to show his real love for everybody. He acts tough as much as possible and he needs to show that too, but always ends up showing his soft heart when he is dissed because of his brother. The younger brother has always been a little slow in the head after his accident, but he has his talent, his good heart and kindness which are all wasted in the society he lives in. He is the loser of the society; but is he ? Or is the society a loser for losing a guy like him eventually. Maybe he was the antidote the hood needed. But since its a tragedy it ends up the way you are guessing right now. The film deals with the relationship between these two brothers with a lady coming across between them. A slice of psychological dilemma is brought by the lady in the house they all start living, which runs out to be short pretty soon. The screenplay is the showstopper of the film and the direction of course. Some of the scenes are so spontaneous and smooth you will really get along with the characters psychologies. Is there a history between the brothers ? Does Tommy the elder brother really love his brother or is he just an alibi in rough times. Would Joey (the younger brother) eventually find his way back home ? Is there a home for him ? has is it been too long away from home, too young for him to track how things have changed ?

Simply the One of the Best comedy ever made on a screen. And Leslie take a bow, his comic timing should be taught at drama schools. My favorite !

A lost genre of Road Movies, ever so well used as a foundation to this 'Beautiful' film. There is a sense of peace through melancholy, wouldn't you agree ? If you don't, this film make you think again. The film starts very slowly, and soon like heroine spreads through your vein and makes you fly with it across the evergreen dry roads of western America. It has really wonderful cinematography, coupled with a very artistic yet contemporary style of film making. Never breaks the tempo of the film, and there lies the secret, it is meant like that, to express the theme of hollowness, sadness, unfavored past and search for peace within. 'How much hurt, is too much hurt, waiting to be forgotten and alone ?' The film sometimes feel Ice Cold in its veins. Rough, Bold, too practical and uncompromising. Another important feature from the film, to notice, is the transition of the lead character from numb, lost and void of emotions to a survivor, tough and strong character driven by the love for his detached son. The difference is visible in his last walk in the film, after carefully making sure that his son is reunited with his mother back. The scene also shows that a mother is irreplaceable in a child's life, the screenplay of this Act is too beautiful and emotional. A father making his journey to bring his son and his wife together. Can he hold his claustrophobia inside created by years of emptiness, just long enough until his kid get his mother ? One of the best and fulfilling last scenes from a film, right up there with Chinatown. That scene alone carries all the themes of the film together, longingness, loneliness, cinematic, coldness, colorful, love, sacrifice and a road to hit, for calm. Best use of scattered background score, giving the film its much needed rusty and dry look. A very western style of guitar, minimalistic and melancholic in approach, its has been a treat to my hearing senses. A must watch !

A Must watch before you die !! Perfect adaption and closest to truth on Islam and Muhammad. This has some of the best cinematic views you could ever imagine. And the movie itself is an epic because of the obvious presence of the Prophet. So well documented and expressed the havoc in the world at a certain with regards to Faith and fraud devotion. The cast couldn't have been better, and an awesome cinematography combined with excellent acting.

Disclaimer - This film is not for the faint hearted. Rating - 10/10 'A Promise too late is still a promise Nonetheless ?' 'This is poetry in disguise of a cinematic being.' This film is from the lost art of epic film making. This is one surpasses even David lean's Lawrence arabia. Rarely have I seen a film so perfect, we have lost this art slow moving storytelling art through films. A War, politics, Egypt, Desert, Adventures, history, desert storms, Spy, Drama, Aeroplanes, caves, hopelessness, vengeance, salvation, Promises, sacrifice and of course among all of these A passionate ill-fated Love Affair. The film is so confident in its storytelling, and so engrossing, whenever you watch a character its heart will beat inside you; you will be taken to all the places the camera had been, from the market in Cairo, to the Sahara and to the sweaty bedroom of the lovers. You will feel like you are on Morphine while watching the film. I can't even begin to start talking about the technicalities, the brilliance of the film and the art it has created. Everything about the film has been perfect and mesmerizing. Even the Costumes, the Background Scores, the chosen city, the timeline, the accents, the tempo of the film everything puts together like movements from a Beethoven Piece. This reminds of so many greats, The lawrence of Arabia, the Red, The river, Gone with the wind, Ben Hur, Cinema Paradiso. This film In my opinion has two different scales of storytelling one for the current time and one for the flashbacks, the screenplay is so cleverly written for each of these two movements in the film, perfectly composed screenplay, with perfect pace and yet distinguishable from each other, the mood captured for the two times through the screenplay is just fabulous. I loved the current timeline screenplay more simply because the characters had more freedom to express the swings in their heart. The Cinematography is too good to be true to our eyes, this is like bible for cinematographers. The closest I can match this with is 'Barry Lyndon'; we have to understand that cinematography has a huge responsibility on a film, and especially it shows the maturity of the whole film making team. Cinematography is not only there to make scenes beautiful, but it has so much more; it is the orchestrator of the moods and the pathos of each scene, since colors are one of the first thing that affects the viewers and draws them, it should be used very responsibly, such that it should be beautiful but also in correct format, in correct quantity helping viewers to focus on something that the director is trying to show. I have rarely seen such intelligent cinematography, the way they have used the lights from different sources, reflections, using elements from the situations and sometimes simply the glittering eyes of the characters. The direction is ever so done perfectly, from the movement of the camera, to the placements of the shots and angles; capturing and the rendering the mood from each character and holding them until the end. The pace of storytelling and the format, the introduction points of the characters, and always most importantly kept everything real while feeding the story like Arabian nights to the viewers. The casting has been done perfectly, each characters felt their grounds, had their moments and always in tact with the crux of the story. Stellar performances from all the actors... Their expressions, voice modulations, gestures and a lot of eyes, so soothing to us viewers. This film is like a Collector's item that too kept in museum. I beg you to watch it.

I have seen so many brilliant Sci Fi movies ! This one really stands out. Sci Fi films are usually very cool with the alien tech, Galactic attire, stars, spaceships and awesome visuals, but what can make a Sci Fi film truly great is, when you inject a real sense of Pathos into it, a sense of human emotions in an alien country. Amon all the hustles, bells and whistles of a fat fetched planet which seems to be very advanced and is seen releasing venturing spaceships into the stellar world, this film has very subtly shown us discrimination among citizens, racism and willpower towards your dreams. Nothing should stop you from chasing your dreams, not even your genes. Nothing is guaranteed, everything works in probability and as long as its 1, you take your chances on whatever decimal points you have as difference. The film has some beautiful scenes, awesome cinematography and the story telling is excellent. The quality of the film making so good that it has made a half decent script into a legendary Sci Fi film loved by everyone. Every conversation space among different characters have been designed well with different elements. The background score is very complimenting and so are the individual performances of the actors. Top notch acting by Uma thurman and Ethan Hawke. " Sincerity, extreme willpower and hard work can overcome the advantages of biological superiority. Take your chances even if you have 1 % of it working for you "

This is an Epic of a Cinema ! We are lucky to have an Art of this quality. Very difficult to express what this film does to you spiritually. This is an offering to Human Society; accept it gracefully. (I am extremely moved by this film at the moment) Rarely comes a film which is so simple, light and flowing yet magical, engrossing and emotional. This film represents the cycle of life; Cycle of mistakes, pain, soul searching and sacrifice. I look at this film a bit differently, just cause I like to believe like that. TO me, its like fantasy, a magical person, existing to show mere Humans how life should be, until he finds his disciple to pass down his powers and blows away in the wind. This power comes with extreme dedication, sacrifice and pilgrimage. My Favorite scene is when the Master wants to look at his disciple one last time before he is taken away, so he holds the boat from flowing until his disciple turns back and he slowly waves him off. This letting go of our older people who has nothing left but their kids, is very underrated as an emotion. Very painful to know that this is probably the last time I am looking at you, now I have to go ! This film very innocently talks about Karma, anguish and repent. The small floating hermitage, the forest and the ecosystem around represent our world in all, the disciple represents us and the Master is the messenger. Ending with a scene showing us that Buddha is on top of everyone and watching us carefully noting everything down. If you have reached to the end of this review, I wish that you smile more and please watch this

This feels like a very softly water colored painting ! The film almost caresses you on the head and whispers its time to Dream. Lulling you softly in her arms. Everything doesn't need to make sense. As long as you love the energy of the apparition ! When you really fall in love with someone, you don't need him/her to be beside you, all you need is the presence, the scent in the air and the warmth in your heart. Because Your lover's skin is already etched upon you forever. There is not a single exchange of words between the lovers, only the sense of belongingness in each other is enough for them to live just like that for eternity. This is one of a kind movie, that makes you a believer of dreams again. A rare film, a niche one; forever in my heart. You as a viewer will almost want to float like the woman in the film in the last scene, like you are in your most desired and comfortable dream. Maybe the boy never lived after Jail. And the rest was all a dream ! The last film that made me feel like this was Chungking Express