Saturday, May 31, 2014

Watch Baap Re Baap (1955) Online

Baap Re Baap (1955)Baap Re Baap (1955)iMDB Rating: 6.8
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Stars : Kishore Kumar, Chand Usmani, Smriti Biswas, Ulhas. Raj Kumar Ashok belongs to a rich and aristocratic family. His parents want him to marry the best of the best girls money could find. Ashok's dad then spends a lot of money to invite proposals from all over India. But Ashok loves Kokila, who belongs to a poor family and sells flowers for a livelihood. Ashok decides to carry on his love with Kokila and at the same time witnesses the hilarious ..." />
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Raj Kumar Ashok belongs to a rich and aristocratic family. His parents want him to marry the best of the best girls money could find. Ashok's dad then spends a lot of money to invite proposals from all over India. But Ashok loves Kokila, who belongs to a poor family and sells flowers for a livelihood. Ashok decides to carry on his love with Kokila and at the same time witnesses the hilarious goings-on at his residence when the dads, mom, and the brides-to-be assemble - all from different parts of India - all speaking a different language. And with this multi-lingual medley, misunderstandings are bound to happen - and they do. His parents eventually select Roopa to be the bride. What will happen to the budding romance of Ashok and Kokila?

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Streaming The Mix Online

The Mix (2000)The Mix (2000)iMDB Rating: 5.9
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Stars : Khosro Shakibai, Negar Forozandeh, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Leila Hatami
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An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.

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Watch Las plebes de Sinaloa (2000) Online

Las plebes de Sinaloa (2000)Las plebes de Sinaloa (2000)Date Released : 6 June 2014
Genre : Action, Crime, Drama
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Streaming Raja 1918 (2007) Online

Raja 1918 (2007)Raja 1918 (2007)iMDB Rating: 6.8
Date Released : 30 November 2007
Genre : Drama, History, Romance, War
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Refreshing drama taking on issues "off the beaten track"

This is a refreshing drama taking on issues "off the beaten track" of the main stream Finnish historical dramas.

It is spring of 1918. The Finnish war of independence is over. The war had turned into a bloody civil war between whites and reds. A young scientist and officer, captain von Munck, is sent to close the border between the newly independent Finland and Russia under Bolshevik revolution. St. Petersbourg is close, only 40 km away and foreign, Russian and Finnish refugees, spies and revolutionaries try to cross the border to Finland.

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.

This historical war movie is the border that most other war movies take for granted. There is a border, there is us and them. This is clear - also in this movie - but where is the border, where is the "thin red line" right here and now? In the story the border, us and them ,is moving from situation to another, from place to another.

The movie has some technical flaw but the script and editing work well. As a description of the situation after 1918 civil war this is a rare filmatisation. I would recommend movie makers to look slightly of the beaten track when choosing historical war and drama topics.

Streaming Second Glance (1992) Online

Second Glance (1992)Second Glance (1992)iMDB Rating: 5.4
Date Released : 8 December 2004
Genre : Drama
Stars : David A.R. White, Blaine Pickett, Lance Zitron, Denise Weatherly. A young Christian, Daniel (David A.R. White) is in public high school. He feels as if his religion is placing too many restrictions on him and he wishes to have some freedom from biblical teachings so that he can be more popular and go out with the girl he likes. One night Daniel wishes that he had "never become a believer," and the next day he has a rude awakening. His room is different, his ..." />
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A young Christian, Daniel (David A.R. White) is in public high school. He feels as if his religion is placing too many restrictions on him and he wishes to have some freedom from biblical teachings so that he can be more popular and go out with the girl he likes. One night Daniel wishes that he had "never become a believer," and the next day he has a rude awakening. His room is different, his house is dirty, and an angel meets him and explains to him that the "Heavenly Father" answered his prayer and now his life is as if he never became a Christian. He soon finds out that the two bullies at school are now his best friends and at school he enjoys the fact that the girl he really liked now likes him too. But all is not well. He goes on to learn that his younger sister no longer exists because his parents got divorced years ago in his alternative life. He is also shocked when his mom prances off to go on a date with someone other than his father (who moved to Los Angeles). The angel ...

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Christian version of "It's a wonderful life"

Dan Burgess is a nice guy. He happens to be a Christian. Dan can't get a date with a girl and thinks that all of his friends are having all of the fun. He is constantly being bothered by non-believers and being made fun of.

Dan prays one night, and wishes he was never a believer in Jesus.

His prayer is answered for one day. Things get hairy from there. An angel appears to Dan and explains his prayer is granted.

So, all of the impact that Dan has had on starting a Christian club.

He be-friends Scot Parks and making a difference, is erased for one day.

Dan's eyes are opened. His life really did make a difference.

Streaming Lumumba Online

Lumumba (2000)Lumumba (2000)iMDB Rating: 7.2
Date Released : 27 September 2000
Genre : Biography, Drama, History, War
Stars : Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto. The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising ..." />
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The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

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inspiring tragedy

I liked this film but to like it, you must know more about the history of Congo. You must also know some more about Belgians and their disrespect (and that is a metaphore!) of the Congolese state.

Lumumba and the Congolese people didn't deserve this as he was right. We Belgians did exploit them for decades. But just because Lumumba reacted not so friendly to Bwana Kitoko (the king was called this way by the Congolese in a previous visit, he was hailed as a great leader) they had to further destabilize Congo and assassinate Lumumba. So he called for the help of the USSR, that was his only option as everybody else was against him. For the Congolese people the US didn't do anything like they did for us with the Marshall Plan. They did support Mobutu's cruel dictatorial rule with lots of money. What good did that do for the average Congolese?

And the trouble didn't stop with the flight of Mubutu. In modern sociological terms, Congo is considered a failed state. And that has it's reasons (and we Belgians are responsible for a large part of those). I hope that Lumuba's dream will still come true and that the Congolese peace process will last so peace and a way of living that is accepted by all Congolese may finally come for them.

Back to the film: You can't expect to understand the complex situation the new independent Congo was put in just by watching this film. That's like thinking the film Enemy at the Gates will explain me everything about the battle of Stalingrad. The film is restricted in many ways and the viewer must understand that. first: It's a film, not a documentary. Some of the scenes are interpretations but they are needed for the plot. second: The main character is Lumumba. Not everything about the troubles in Katanga or elsewhere is told, neither is everything about Mobutu told. It would have been an endless film that way. third: The film is an African film, let them create their own ways of telling this story. White people shouldn't tell them how to tell a story. But I'm glad that some funded this film that tell some people more about an unclear history. It might encourage them to find out more about Lumumba or various other things after the credits roll away and that is a good thing.

Watch Reservation Road (2007) Online

Reservation Road (2007)Reservation Road (2007)iMDB Rating: 6.7
Date Released : 19 June 2008
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars : Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Elle Fanning. On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them ..." />
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On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing - and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas' mother Ruth Wheldon, Dwight heads towards his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, while Ethan - the only witness - is all too aware, as a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the ...

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greatly acted, terribly said but unremarkable on the whole

Begins as a sensitive and involving drama guilt but ends up degenerating into a corny story; the cast is good enough but the story gets more and more clichéd. It starts telling the difficulty in coping with a terribly tragic event and describing the fragility of all the characters, that is really felt. The actors bring an intensity to the characters that is really deep. Phoenix and Ruffalo, as well as Connelly, offer a strong emotional foundation that makes them real and genuinely painful. The thing is that coincidences and links between the events are in the end too many and everything risks of falling to pieces, a real pity because the plot was initially very promising.

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Athanokkade (2005)Athanokkade (2005)iMDB Rating: 6.9
Date Released : 12 May 2005
Genre : Action, Drama
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Streaming Ollavum Theeravum (1969) Online

Ollavum Theeravum (1969)Ollavum Theeravum (1969)iMDB Rating: 8.1
Genre : Drama
Stars : Madhu, Usha Nandini, Philomina, Jose Prakash
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A Muslim trader falls in love with his dead friends sister who is the daughter of a prostitute.[4] but her mother forces her to marry a wealthy man who have an eye on her, she rejected but was raped by him and commit suicide.

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Gospel Hill (2008)Gospel Hill (2008)iMDB Rating: 5.4
Date Released : 21 August 2009
Genre : Drama
Stars : Chloe Bailey, Adam Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Casey Belville
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Gospel Hill is about haunted men, the former sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and the former civil rights worker withdrawn since the martyrdom of his father thirty years before. Their final confrontation comes when a corporation descends on the town, echoing a struggle thirty years old.

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Amazing

I just had the pleasure of seeing this film at the Albuquerque Film Festival and have to say that I was severely impressed. I have not been moved by a film in this way for quite some time. The move this movie made away from the stereotypical negativity that can blanket this genre was a breath of fresh air. When you consider the short period of time taken to shoot this film(19 days)it becomes that much more of a wonder. Being that this is Giancarlo's first project as Director, I greatly look forward to his next. I also had the pleasure of hearing him speak about his vision for this movie at the festival after the viewing and I have to say that his intentions ring clear. I am a better person for having seen it.

Streaming Strangers Online

Strangers (2007)Strangers (2007)iMDB Rating: 5.1
Date Released : 15 December 2007
Genre : Drama, Romance, Thriller
Stars : Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Nandana Sen. An overnight train journey, from London into France, business class, is comfortable and expensive. The premise where two of the film's protagonists,'strangers' to each other, meet, talk and decide to eliminate each other's spouses to alleviate themselves of the hell they are trapped in." />
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An overnight train journey, from London into France, business class, is comfortable and expensive. The premise where two of the film's protagonists,'strangers' to each other, meet, talk and decide to eliminate each other's spouses to alleviate themselves of the hell they are trapped in.

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Worth a watch

Strangers is a movie dealing with personal relationships and the effects of extramarital ones.The movie is about 2 men,Rahul(Jimmy Shergill) and Sanjeev Rai(Kay Kay Menon) from different walks of life who do not to know each other and meet on a train journey to London,and during the course of journey get to know about each others unpleasant family lives. Jimmy's acting as a suspecting and dissatisfied husband is good,Kay Kay's skills are noteworthy too.The ladies' role are nothing special. Music is average. The concept is good but one must have the patience to sit through 1 and a 1/2 hours to enjoy this film. The first half is almost entirely shot on a train.The second half has interesting twists and turns that take one by surprise. All in all,watchable

Friday, May 30, 2014

Watch Free Rainer Online

Free Rainer (2007)Free Rainer (2007)iMDB Rating: 6.7
Date Released : 15 November 2007
Genre : Drama
Stars : Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa Sophie Gambard, Milan Peschel, Gregor Bloéb
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Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.

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First step of the new revolution : bring culture back !

The film has a very simple basic premise. Television has been reduced to the lowest common denominator and people swallow it because they have gotten used to it. As such, they are reduced to an antisocial drone-like resistance that no longer resembles life as our fathers remember. Improve what's on the TV and you'll improve society.

For someone who's himself quite sick of all those reality soaps and the garbage that comes out from the Hollywood assembly line, I found this film refreshing and inspirational. Although I wasn't quite fond of the obvious ultra-left ideology you can find in between the lines, the message of this film goes beyond ideology and is a call to all of us.

"Democratic" capitalist society has become a tyrannical system run by corporations who enslave us for profit, while we, the average consumer, are barely aware of the golden cage in which we live. We've all become paranoid little f***'s who waste our time on shallow small talk and brainless entertainment rather than having real conversations on real topics and devouring real culture. This film tries to open your eyes to that reality and reach the inner child in all of us.... the inner child that makes us human.

Obviously this film doesn't have the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster and the story is most definitely naive, but the very optimism of this film and its lonely dissident cry make it far more interesting to me than anything Hollywood has produced since "V For Vendetta".

That's all I have to say......

Streaming Camila Jam (2007) Online

Camila Jam (2007)Camila Jam (2007)iMDB Rating: 6.4
Date Released : 18 July 2008
Genre : Drama
Stars : Leandra Leal, Frank Borges, Luciano Bortoluzzi, Luciana Brites
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The story of Camila, a young woman intent on becoming a writer.

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Painfully brilliant

This is a movie unlike most movies I've seen. It portrays a kind of character that you don't see much in Brazilian films - a deeply anguished young middle class woman, with writing aspirations and a desire for intensity. You don't know exactly why she's so miserable and where her anguish comes from, but you feel it deeply with her. She's trying to find meaning for her meaningless life, and she searches everywhere she can, even if she might get hurt. When she does get hurt, she aches but goes on to the next try. I guess she's one of those people that prefer to be in pain than to feel nothing at all. Ultimately, it's the writing that helps her keep going by turning the despair into something beautiful.

It's a great movie, well constructed, with a very strong lead character and an interesting plot, but the overwhelming factor really comes from the actress, Leandra Leal. She is fearless, brave enough to bare her soul and her body for this performance. I'd say it's a great film for anyone that is acquainted with their own dark places.

Streaming Aulad Ke Dushman (1993) Online

Aulad Ke Dushman (1993)Aulad Ke Dushman (1993)iMDB Rating: 3.8
Date Released : 3 December 1993
Genre : Drama
Stars : Vikas Anand, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Raj Babbar, Kishore Anand Bhanushali. Aulad Ke Dushman is a story of parents who blindly bow down to the demands of their stubborn children thereby adding poison to their future. R. K. Chaudhary is the father believes in fulfilling every whim of his son Vicky to express his love towards him. When Vicky commits a murder, Chaudhary blankets his crime by pouring money. When Vicky insults the vice principal of his college, Chaudhary ..." />
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Aulad Ke Dushman is a story of parents who blindly bow down to the demands of their stubborn children thereby adding poison to their future. R. K. Chaudhary is the father believes in fulfilling every whim of his son Vicky to express his love towards him. When Vicky commits a murder, Chaudhary blankets his crime by pouring money. When Vicky insults the vice principal of his college, Chaudhary forces the Vice Principal resign instead of questioning Vicky. Chaudhary's elder brother Papaji does not approve of Vicky's misbehavior and leaves the house. Shalu, the daughter of Chaudhary's friend Kumar is engaged to Vicky in the very childhood. She loves Vicky but Vicky loves Chanda. Vicky refuses to marry Shalu and marries Chanda. Dindayal takes advantage of the situation and grabs the entire estate of Chaudhary and Chanda drives Vicky out. R K Chaudhary and Vicky become paupers. Kumar creates hurdles in Vicky's path, makes his efforts futile. Vicky drops in the party thrown by Kumar at his ...

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Crap

After the debacle of VIRODHI(1992) which launched flop actor Munish/Armaan Kohli Rajkumar Kohli tries again to launch him with crap AULAD KE DUSHMAN

The film has a good message but the handling is too mediocre The start is well done but slowly the film gets too melodramatic and the direction is bad

Also there are several illogical scenes throughout the film

Shatrughan's poverty is well shown but the going-ons are unbearable at many places and by the time it ends it gets worse

Direction by RKK is below average Music is bad

Armaan Kohli doesn't show much improvement from VIRODHI, he still looks awkward, acts amateurishly and his voice modulation is terrible Ayesha Jhulka is okay The other heroine is nothing great Shatrughan Sinha looks overweight and does his usual stuff Raj Babbar too is as usual Shakti Kapoor annoys, Raza Murad is the mandatory villain Saeed Jaffrey is as usual

Streaming Mademoiselle (2001) Online

Mademoiselle (2001)Mademoiselle (2001)iMDB Rating: 6.6
Date Released : 21 March 2001
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars : Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Candelier, Zinedine Soualem
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Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.

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So what?

A married saleswoman misses her transportation and tags along with a troupe of improvisational comedians. I would watch Sandrine Bonnaire reading from the phone book, and it's a pleasure to watch her here, but I left the theatre thinking "So what?". I found the lead male character completely uninteresting, and I could not understand what she would see in him. The whole film leads to their affair, but I didn't find it at all believable. The best I can say about this film is that I did not dislike it.

Streaming Mujeres en el parque (2006) Online

Mujeres en el parque (2006)Mujeres en el parque (2006)iMDB Rating: 5.9
Date Released : 12 January 2007
Genre : Drama
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Watch Piano, solo (2007) Online

Piano, solo (2007)Piano, solo (2007)iMDB Rating: 6.6
Date Released : 21 September 2007
Genre : Biography, Drama
Stars : Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca, Paola Cortellesi, Michele Placido
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A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

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The sad old story of doomed genius

The association of artistic genius and madness is a banal one, but this film starring Kim Rossi Stweart is a subtle and sadly convincing portrayal of the tragic short life of contemporary Italian jazz great Luca Flores, whose demons caught up with him. Walter Veltroni, from 2001 to 2008 the popular leftist mayor of Rome, wrote a book about Flores called 'The Disk of the World' on which this beautifully photographed film biography is based. With its harmonious earth tones and recognizable but never clichéd images of Florence, the cinematography is another reason for watching, besides the performance of Stewart and a good supporting cast and the music itself, which evokes a now legendary musician who played with Chet Baker and Dave Holland and left a legacy of fine recordings but took his life in 1995 at the age of thirty-nine.

Stewart is a handsome and charismatic actor, one of Italy's chief current matinée idols, who seems to have an innate mystery and distance and sadness about him. His recent outstanding performances include the repentant father of the severely disabled boy in Gianni Amelio's powerful 2004 'The Keys to the House'/'Le chiavi di casa,' the aptly named "Il Freddo" (the Cold One) in veteran actor Michele Placido's 2005 directorial debut 'Criminal Romance,' and the husband in his own strong 2006 beginning as a helmer, 'Along the Ridge'/'Ance libero va bene.'

Flores' father Giovanni (Michele Placido) was a geologist who worked in Cuba and Belize and then took the family to Mozambique, where (as the film shows it) Luca fell free from a car that crashed, killing his mother. He never overcame this trauma.

The film elides early events, showing Luca in a public audition for the Luigi Cherubini conservatory of music in Florence in which he dazzles everyone by sight-reading a challenging solo piece by Rachmaninof with concert quality even though he's had no previous formal training. The next thing we know two young local jazzmen, Alessandro (Claudio Gioè) and Raffaele (Roberto De Francesco), give Luca a Bud Powell record and with some disapproval from his father Luca starts to play in a successful jazz trio with the pair in a club and they get a glowing national review right away that leads to recordings. At the club Cinzia (Jasmine Trinca) falls for him and takes him home and a long love affair follows, but he turns bitter and suspicious toward her just when she's pregnant. He remains in touch with his brother and sisters Pablo (Corso Salani), Heidi (Mariella Valentini), Baba (Paola Cortellesi), and especially close to Baba. Even when he and Cinzia are estranged she continues to love him and is the only one who can help him at some moments of crisis.

In the sequences that follow the early successes, things slow down as the tone darkens and the "male oscuro" increasingly hovers over Luca, who despite his love of family and of Cinzia further and further withdraws into his music--or, in moments of utter confusion, into obsessively repeated scales. After a particularly bad crisis, Luca goes back to the Africa of his childhood where he rides thousands of kilometers on a motorcycle, finds peace, and returns to music. But he also relives the traumatic accident. Along with whatever mental instability he had, Flores had a terrible case of survival guilt. He had the impression that he was killing everybody. When Chet Baker fell from the balcony and died in 1988, Flores said he'd killed him with his scales.

It's the sad old story of doomed genius. The later sequences are hard to watch, not because they are maudlin or forced-- this is the most tasteful and understated of films--but because the ending is so inevitable. Taste triumphs here, and a visual style so consistent that its browns and soft lights soak into your brain.

Shown at the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series at Lincoln Center June 2008.