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Movie Review: L’Armée des Ombres (Army of Shadows)

Movie Review: L’Armée des Ombres (Army of Shadows)

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #105/111 Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (France)     Genre: War Drama Melville creates a sombre blue-grey undertone, with blue-toned pastel colours predominating in the movie, to convey a mood of sadness. This is a disciplined, yet...
Movie Review: Nazarin

Movie Review: Nazarin

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #104/111 Director: Luis Buñuel (Spain/Mexico)       Genre: Spiritual Drama Buñuel’s stark grey palette is the ideal filmic “paint” for this moving portrait of Christian spirituality coming face to face with a brutish social...
Movie Review: Sult (Hunger)

Movie Review: Sult (Hunger)

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #103/111 Director: Hennig Carlsen (Denmark) Genre: Socio-Psychological Drama Sult (Hunger) is a classic of Scandinavian cinema, a bold and unique film, painted in stark black-and-white tones, about a starving writer. Based on the novel Hunger by Norwegian...
Movie Review:  Sin (Il Peccato)

Movie Review: Sin (Il Peccato)

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #102/111 Director: Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia)    Genre: Historical Biographical Period Drama Konchalovsky creates a stunning naturalistic vision of the world of Renaissance Italy. This colourful, dirty and chaotic world, brought to life...
Movie Review: First Man

Movie Review: First Man

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #101/111 Director: Damien Chazelle (USA) Genre: Historical Biographical Space Drama First Man is an epic account of the birth of the space age in America. The moon shot was a superhuman goal and the film methodically recreates the rawness of the effort it...
Movie Review: Platoon

Movie Review: Platoon

by The Movie Love Ambassador | Mar 29, 2023 | By the Movie Love Ambassador

Ranking: #100/111 Director: Oliver Stone (USA) Genre: War Drama This is perhaps the most visceral, incisive and insightful depiction of the Vietnam war in cinema. Written and directed by Olive Stone, it’s a semi-autobiographical story about the fate of Bravo Company...
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