Category Archives: psychological

Movie review: Perfect Strangers (2016) directed by Paolo Genovese

Posted on February 8, 2019 by portiabridget

Movie info: Seven long-time friends (three married couples and a divorcee) are having a dinner. They decide, as a playful game, to put each one’s mobile phone on the table and reveal every text message or phone call they would … Continue reading →

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Movie review: You Were Never Really Here (2018) directed by Lynne Ramsay

Posted on June 8, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info: It is a movie adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella and it features Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a horribly messed- up individual. As a combat veteran and former FBI agent with post-traumatic stress disorder he pops pills constantly. Pills are expensive so he earns … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Therapy for a Vampire (2016) directed by David Rühm

Posted on January 18, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info: 1932, Vienna. Dr. Sigmund Freud (Karl Fischer) helps a depressed vampire aristocrat Geza von Közsnöm (Tobias Moretti) whose marriage is on the rocks. Or rather on a tip of a wooden stake. After 500 years of ‘happily-ever-after’ it can … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Arrival directed by Denis Villeneuve

Posted on February 24, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: Linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is caring for her dying adolescent daughter.While she is lecturing at a university, twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft appear across the Earth. U.S. Army Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) asks Louise to join physicist Ian Donnelly … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Franklyn directed by Gerald McMorrow (2008)

Posted on January 27, 2017 by portiabridget

I would like to thank dearest Melfka who told me about this film – you rock! Product info (from Wikipedia): Split between the parallel realities of contemporary London and the otherworldly metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn follows the tales of … Continue reading →

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Movie review: The Girl on the Train (La Fille du RER) (2009) directed by Andre Techine

Posted on November 25, 2016 by portiabridget

This movie has nothing to do with The Girl on the Train directed by Tate Taylor and  released in 2016. Nothing whatsoever. Still I do admit I found it while searching for the former. I don’t regret it, to be … Continue reading →

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Movie review: I, Anna (2012) directed by Barnaby Southcombe

Posted on October 21, 2016 by portiabridget

Movie info: DCI Bernie Reid (Gabriel Byrne) cannot sleep due to personal problems. He is cruising London at night when he hears over the radio that a man was brutally murdered in one of high rise apartment buildings. While entering the … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Ex Machina (2015) directed by Alex Garland

Posted on November 27, 2015 by portiabridget

Movie info: Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a young, promising programmer works for an American  internet-search giant, Blue Book. One day he finds out he’s just won the first prize in his company’s competition – it consists of spending a week … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Trance by Danny Boyle (2013)

Posted on February 25, 2015 by portiabridget

Synopsis: A group of criminals try to steal a very valuable painting of Francisco Goya (Vuelo de Brujas; also known as Witches in Flight or Witches in the Air ) during its auction; however in the ensuing mayhem it gets lost. Only one … Continue reading →

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Book to movie review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed vs. Wild directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (2014) and written by Nick Hornby

Posted on February 20, 2015 by portiabridget

Synopsis: A road to hell or a road to redemption? A foolish project of an unbalanced individual or a life-saving pilgrimage? After a premature death of her beloved mother and a divorce Cheryl nose-dived into troubles. She dropped out of … Continue reading →

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