1,000 Times Good Night (2013)
Wow, a powerful, amazing movie. It's about the ravages of photojournalism—the toll it takes on the photographer and her or his family. And I think it's rather real. I'm a photographer and professor of photography, and it felt pretty close to how it works— simplified a bit, but the feeling was accurate.
And Juliette Binoche is riveting. She makes the ups and downs, and the commitment to her profession, absolutely right on. Outsiders will find it hard to believe that a person can be so devoted to his or her career their children have to compromise (or worse), but that's just the normal truth of it. It's not a cushioned, safe world. And Binoche makes clear in her actions that she does it out of a real devotion to truth, and letting the world know. Admirable stuff.
Those are the big themes, and the movie fills it in with both personal angles (with the father of the children and the kids themselves) and the professional one (making decisions, doing her work). It also shows nicely the huge dichotomy between the world she works in and the one she lives in. This alone is worth seeing, because most of us will identify with the safety of an ordinary home, and the devastations she photographs are so opposite.
Yes, see this. It's imperfect in ways that are for film students to get into--what one reviewer sums up as the pompousness. But the overall is great stuff.
Wow, a powerful, amazing movie. It's about the ravages of photojournalism—the toll it takes on the photographer and her or his family. And I think it's rather real. I'm a photographer and professor of photography, and it felt pretty close to how it works— simplified a bit, but the feeling was accurate.
And Juliette Binoche is riveting. She makes the ups and downs, and the commitment to her profession, absolutely right on. Outsiders will find it hard to believe that a person can be so devoted to his or her career their children have to compromise (or worse), but that's just the normal truth of it. It's not a cushioned, safe world. And Binoche makes clear in her actions that she does it out of a real devotion to truth, and letting the world know. Admirable stuff.
Those are the big themes, and the movie fills it in with both personal angles (with the father of the children and the kids themselves) and the professional one (making decisions, doing her work). It also shows nicely the huge dichotomy between the world she works in and the one she lives in. This alone is worth seeing, because most of us will identify with the safety of an ordinary home, and the devastations she photographs are so opposite.
Yes, see this. It's imperfect in ways that are for film students to get into--what one reviewer sums up as the pompousness. But the overall is great stuff.