Category: Cinema

27/01/2013 Alia Shawkat | Amreeka | Hiam Abbass | human-rights | middle-east | Nisreen Faour | Occupied Palestine | politics | Prejudice against Arabs | Prejudice against Muslims | religion Feitosa-Santana

Amreeka

Mother and son, Muna and Fadi, are tired of the bombs and checking points of the occupied Palestine, and they decided to join their relatives in Chicago but they arrived in the US right after the nine-eleven… They are not even Muslims but, for the average American, they are just stupid Muslims or potential terrorists… […]

05/01/2013 comedy | Coming Out | cote d azur | Cote d'Azur (Crustaces & Coquillages) (2005) | Cote D'Azur Movie | delightful comedy | entertainment | Gilbert Melki | Jacques Martineau | Olivier Ducastel | valeria bruni Feitosa-Santana

Cote d’Azur (Crustaces & Coquillages) (2005)

Cote D’Azur is a delightful comedy that talks about sexuality in a very light way. Maybe too light to be true but there is no doubt that it would be good to be true. This movie is adorable, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is gorgeous.

05/01/2013 Bobby Sands Hunger | Hunger Steve McQueen | Margaret Thatcher and IRA | Margaret Thatcher Quote IRA Feitosa-Santana

Hunger (2008)

“There is no such thing as political murder, political bombing, political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing, and criminal violence. There will be no political status.” – By Margaret Thatcher It is shocking and disturbing. We are talking about the IRA volunteers, prisoners that had never received the status of political prisoners. They […]

01/01/2013 arts | aviation | entertainment | Nobody Knows Movie | Tokyo Abandoned Kids | true story of four children abandoned by their mother | Yuya Yagira Cannes | Yuya Yagira Nobody Knows Feitosa-Santana

Nobody Knows

“Based on the true story of four children abandoned by their mother in a small Tokyo apartment, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s fourth film is at once harrowing and tender, an urban horror story with overtones of fairy tale. Restricting himself to the children’s point of view, the director creates an almost unbearable sense of dread in the […]