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Babylon (2022)
Pretty much a disappointment
Where to start... Babylon was a disappointment for me.
Chazelle wants to talk about Hollywood and the seventh art and more in detail about the decline of silent cinema with the innovation of sound. This film wanted to look like a love letter from Chazelle, but I haven't seen much love. 3 hours and go of a hollow film. For me this film is hollow.
Don't get me wrong it has several positive aspects. Starting with the soundtrack which is beautiful, Justin Hurwitz has done a great job and deserves the right accolades. Some scenes are shot very well, especially at the beginning there is a beautiful staging and in general Chazelle offers some very nice shots and long shots. Brad Pitt works great, even if his epilogue is rushed and distant. The big problem of the film is precisely the writing which, perhaps dear Chazelle forgot to be a fundamental point for the making of a film, especially for a film that also has a subject, a plot and characters. You can't give me 3 hours and 9 minutes of a movie where most of the scenes are useless and characters I don't bond with and I don't care much about what happens to them in the movie. It's ok the critics of the film industry, but cinema cannot be celebrated / glorified only in the final with a sequence of a quick montage of the history of cinema, although I liked it as a scene overall, but it cannot save the previous 3 hours of film. In this excessive duration, among other things, I didn't even feel boredom, but regret and disappointment, after I kept seeing scene after scene that led nowhere.
Tarantino made his love letter to cinema with "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and his film works great, although there is no actual plot, there is but it is a very ambient film made of sensations and nostalgia, but in any case he puts us in front of characters with whom we immediately become attached, the dialogues keep you glued to the screen and it is clear that he has put real love into his work. Here Chazelle tries that, but without success. I felt no love for cinema, I just felt that the film was empty. Like saying "I love you" without really meaning it. Those are beautiful words, but if I don't feel the feeling of how they are said they are words in the wind.
In fact, the film is like this: Scenes filmed quite perfectly, some parts make you laugh, historical hints appreciated even if they are thrown away a bit, wonderful soundtrack, sets and costumes at the top; but there is no depth in what I see and a film that should celebrate cinema as a whole, cannot fail to have the basic, that is the writing, the story that immerses me in the film, makes me identify with the characters. Without stories, whether realist or surrealist, cinema goes nowhere.
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Not only a biographic movie
This movie has a lot of things in it. Two great actors. Good directing and photography. But the thing that hit me the most was the heart and soul that I found in it. Seeing all the problems that an acting career could accure at some point, and all the passion that this movie transmit to move on to this problems. For someone like me, that would love to work as an actor in my life, this film made me cry multiple times, because I felt the passion and dedication that Stan and Ollie had for their work.
(This is my first review and I'm sorry if there are some grammatical errors, but I'm italian and I'm not so able writing in other languages, thank you).