Barbet Schroeder

Uganda’s dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew’s request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations, his goal of eradicating Israel, his views on economic policy, and his views of Nixon, Kissinger, and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting (two weeks after this meeting, the foreign minister, whom Amin criticizes here, is murdered), supervising a war-game simulation of an invasion of Israel, visiting a village, and addressing a conclave of Ugandan physicians. (fonte: imdb)… (meer)

Alex Fayard er en suksessfull forfatter innen krimgenren, som har latt seg inspirere av en berømt japansk krimforfatter som skriver de mest bestialske bøker. Ingen har noen sinne lykkes i at møte den japanske forfatteren, og han er omspunnet med mystikk.

Da Alex ankommer Tokyo på en boksigneringsturné, blir han truet på livet av den japanske forfatteren. Etter et besøk i et japansk tehus kontakter geishaen som var til stede på tehuset ham. Hun er overbevist om at en tidligere beiler er den japanske forfatteren. Han har nemlig truet henne på livet og hun trygler Alex om hjelp.

Nokså snart befinner Alex seg som en brikke i et livsfarlig spill, hvor han ikke kan være sikker på hva som er fiksjon og hva som er virkelighet. Hvem er den japanske forfatteren og hva vil han med Alex?

Jeg opplevde denne filmen som nokså spekulativ og egentlig lite engasjerende. Hvorvidt det skyldes at filmen som sådan er dårlig eller at jeg ikke helt har sansen for denne filmgenren, skal være usagt.… (meer)

Sandra Bullock (Actor), Ben Chaplin (Actor), Barbet Schroeder (Director)
The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. SANDRA BULLOCK ("Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," "Miss Congeniality"), stars as Cassie Mayweather, the seasoned homicide detective and crime scene specialist assigned to the case along with her new partner San Kennedy (BEN CHAPLIN - "Lost Souls," "The Thin Red Line"). The two dectectives make their way through microscopic hints of evidence, which seem to indicate a random act of violence, but Cassie has a gut feeling that there is more to this murder than meets the eye. Something about this case reminds her of her past exactly at a time when she is asked to appear at a parole hearing on an old police matter. These events force Cassie to revisit the past.… (meer)

Plot Synopsis
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover's killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis

From The New Yorker

A Colombian writer returns to his native Medellín to mourn his lost youth and, while he's at it, pick up a new one. That, more or less, is the tale that Barbet Schroeder's new movie has to tell. Schroeder has made some spicy pictures in his time, but this one feels lacklustre by comparison, and the two main performers-Anderson Ballesteros as the hustler and German Jaramillo as his aging mentor-tend to drift through their scenes, trying not to notice the hellfire around them. Whether they are genuinely ground down by the woes of the world or simply exhausted by years of casual sex is hard to work out; to be fair, few directors could make a film about moral anesthesia without sinking into glumness, and Schroeder does a pretty good job of insuring that no one in the audience will book a Colombian vacation in the near future. In Spanish. -Anthony Lane
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