What is a miracle? A fantastic event created by a supernatural entity? The hallucination of a person with a strong belief? or simply an inexplicable wonder? This absolutely wonderful movie speaks about that from the complicated side of contemplation. After watching it everything is possible, every answer, every reason, every justification. The facts, are related with an enviable sense of modesty. Even a stauncher atheist would find miraculous this Dreyer's masterpiece. Obviously, the development of the story line is slow, determined and thoughtful. This movie requires full attention, full involvement from the audience who will give the answers: don't wait for them in this perfect example of cinema beyond our daily human way of life. By the way, this is not a religious movie as many people think.
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Red River
(1948)
Much more than a western
14 March 2005
First of all I should say that this is a Howard Hawks's. That means something special when we speak about a western, but this movie curiously is much more than an extraordinary western. Nostalgia for the old times pervades every single still, and also the generational gap, the adventurous spirit, the constant fight against many problems and the effort to come through it all. All in all, the building of a new country and the overcoming eagerness of a few people. A movie absolutely plenty of human heat. This movie is a wonderful trip inside some hearts and souls, a movie which let his feelings show openly, all on edge, but always noble, proud and vital. More than cinema: life.
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