October 10, 2008
Import Export (2008) ****
After "Dog Days" (2001), Austrian director Ulrich Seidl comes up with another provocative satire about contemporary society. This time, his merciless camera observes (among other things) the lives of Ukrainian prostitutes and their Austrian clients. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival to wide critical acclaim.
The Dark Knight (2008) ****
Arguably the best "Batman" movie ever (which also makes it the greatest "superhero" movie of all times). Directed by Christopher Nolan ("Momento", "Batman Begins"), it's a fascinating parabole about modern terrorism, drawing bold parallels between Batman's vigilantism and Bush's War on Terror. Heath Ledger, as Joker, is absolutely mesmerizing, making Jack Nicholson's Joker look sane, reasonable and even boring by comparison. The action scenes are top-notch. Christian Bale's weird Batman voice is the only weakness of this otherwise perfect movie.
Don't Look Down (2008) ****
Eliseo Subiela's masterpiece and his only film where eroticism and romanticism fuse together effortlessly rather than cancel each other out (which was unfortunately the case in some of his earlier pictures such as "The Dark Side of the Heart" and "Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going"). Gorgeous Antonella Costa, last seen in "Cobrador In God We Trust", spends almost the entire film completely naked, while introducing a young sleepwalking student into the joys of tantric sex.
Absurdistan (2008) ****
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