9º – Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990)
The film explores the intense daily life of a middle-class family in London. We will understand more about the way each member of this family acts, glimpsing their pleasures and sufferings. Mike Leigh presents a daring film, powerful in its general proposal, with light and heavy moments. Here, more than the uncertainties of life, the film explores the attempt to ignore possible problematic instances of the day to day life of this family, always trying to change the course of their lives.
8º – Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, 2015)
A successful writer is in a hotel to give a lecture. Instead, the man will find in the figure of a fan of his books the instance of an unexpected novel. However, the emptiness in his life ends up being greater than his strength to discover new things. One of the most intelligent animations arranged by the seventh art, ‘Anomalisa’ is strong, bringing a story that investigates all the pathological core contained in our model of facing life.
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