Filmski kotiček, 17. september 2016 ― Slo naslov: Nevarnost iz globine Država: ZDA Leto: 2016 Dolžina: 86',  Imdb Žanri: Drama, Grozljivka, Triler    Slo recenzija: Filmoljub, Mladina, Filmstart Režija: Jaume Collet-Serra Scenarij: Anthony Jaswinski Igrajo: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo   [SLO] V napeti grozljivki igra Blake Lively Nancy, ameriško deskarko, ki se nekega dne odloči, da bo sama uživala v deskanju na samotni obali. Nenadoma jo napade veliki beli morski pes in Nancy se znajde v plitvini, na skali nedaleč od obale. Čeprav je kopno oddaljeno le kakšnih dvesto metrov, ne more kar odplavati do obale, saj okoli skale ves čas preži morski pes. [Cineplexx] [ENG] In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude. [Sony Pictures Entertainment] Ocena

Filmski kotiček, 16. september 2016 ― Slo naslov: -  Država: ZDA Leto: 2016 Dolžina: 88' ,  Imdb Žanri: Komedija, Drama  Slo recenzija: -  Režija: Todd Solondz Scenarij: Todd Solondz Igrajo: Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, Greta Gerwig, Kieran Culkin, Connor Long, Bridget Brown, Danny DeVito, Sharon Washington, Ellen Burstyn [ENG] From director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS), WIENER-DOG is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip. After leaving Dawn, Wiener-Dog encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughter—all longing for something more. Solondz’s perversely dark comedy offers an appallingly honest look at the American experience, brought to life by its all-star cast. ****************** Bizarre and challenging when it's not outright goofy, Wiener-Dog never feels remotely compromised. Somehow hilarious and gloomy at the same time, it represents a big middle finger to anyone who wishes Solondz would lighten up. (indieWIRE, Eric Kohn) The proverbial dog has its day — a day of misfortune, indigestion and possible death, but a day nonetheless — in “Wiener-Dog,” the eighth and perhaps most blithely eccentric feature to date from Todd Solondz. A wandering short story compendium, bound by deadpan musings on mortality and the presence of one winsome Dachshund, this elegantly wrought oddity appears at the halfway mark to be heading into uncharacteristically hopeful territory for Solondz — until a toe-tapping intermission marks a reassuring plunge into abject despair. Students of the filmmaker’s exactingly composed mise-en-thropy will revel in the new pic’s freezing wit, jaundiced societal observation and inventive st

Filmski kotiček, 15. september 2016 ― Slo naslov: -  Država: Gvatemala, Francija Leto: 2015 Dolžina: 91' ,  Imdb Žanri: Drama    Slo recenzija: - Režija: Jayro Bustamante Scenarij: Jayro Bustamante Igrajo: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy [ENG] María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew. Director Jayro Bustamante grew up in the region of the Kaqchikel Maya in Guatemala and returned there to make his film. He held workshops, asked people to tell stories from their own lives and examined the current living conditions of the Maya at close range. In doing so, he learnt about the special connection the women there have with the rituals of their mothers and grandmothers. The plot picks up the rhythm of a life defined by ancestral beliefs and traditions. An unfamiliar daily routine awaits the audience, far from the globalised world. Ixcanul is not a film about Indigenous culture but one that was developed from within it. [Berlinale] ********************** A young Mayan woman finds herself at a crossroads between the ancient and modern worlds in “Ixcanul Volcano,” a transporting, hypnotically beautiful debut feature from Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante. A simple, fable-like movie made in close collaboration with a real Mayan farming community from the Guatemalan highlands, Bustamante’s film is downright Herzogian (far more than Herzog’s own “Queen of the Desert”) in its surfeit of physical detail, observed ritual and looming clash of civilizations. Festivals will take extensive note, though paying spectators will be hard to come by outside major arthouse markets. [Scott

Filmski kotiček, 14. september 2016 ― Slo naslov: -  Država: ZDA Leto: 2014 Dolžina: 90',  Imdb Žanri: Grozljivka, Triler    Slo recenzija: - Režija: Kevin Greutert Scenarij: Robert Ben Garant Igrajo: Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter, David Andrews  [ENG] Jessabelle "Jessie" Laurent is pregnant and accepts to move to the house of her boyfriend to raise a family of their own. However they have a car accident where her boyfriend and her baby die. Jessie is seriously wounded and trapped to a wheelchair, and the direction of the hospital asks her to contact her estranged father to help her. Leon Laurent brings his daughter to his house in Louisiana and lodges her in her mother's room. Jessie snoops around the room and finds a videotape where her mother Kate Laurent is pregnant and reads tarot cards to her. She tells that Jessie would never left Louisiana; she is attracted by water; and another woman wants her out of the house. However Leon arrives and destroys the tape. On the next morning, Jessie watches another videotape when her father is out of the house, and her mother talks about the man that had taught her to read cards, Moses. Jessie is haunted by the ghost of a woman and her father discovers the two other videotapes she has hidden...  Ocena

Filmski kotiček, 12. september 2016 ― Slo naslov: -  Angleški naslov: The Handmaiden Država: Južna Koreja Leto: 2016 Dolžina: 145',  Imdb Žanri: Drama, Romantični    Slo recenzija: - Režija: Park Chan-wook Scenarij: Chung Seo-kyung, Sarah Waters (knjiga) Igrajo: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Hae-sook, Moon So-ri [ENG] 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions. [CJ Entertainment] **************** Park Chan-wook transposes Sarah Waters’ sapphic Victorian potboiler Fingersmith to Japanese-occupied Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century. And the fit is as perfect as one of the svelte, elbow-length kid leather gloves that become such a potent visual motif in a film which feels like a compendium of erotic imagery. Chan-wook downplays some of the complexity of Waters’ novel, stripping out a layer or two of double-crossing and intrigue that would have overcomplicated the third act. And he ups the ante on the sado masochism, plunging us into an alarmingly well-equipped torture chamber at a pivotal moment. But the film manages the tricky feat of both staying true to Waters breathless, page-turning prose, and creating a wholly persuasive new milieu for the story. [Wendy Ide, Screen Daily] Ocena