Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Wim Wenders has a talent for making film masterpieces out of risky and unusual plot concepts. His last picture, Wings of Desire, followed the story of trenchcoat-wearing angel who falls in love--and out of grace--when he meets a trapeze artist in a Berlin circus. His new work, a high-tech detective love story that unfolds in a world on the verge of the 21st century, is equally improbable and enthralling...
...short film. Claire's journey takes up more than two and a half hours of screentime. Despite this, Until the End of the World does not turn into a viewer endurance test. The movie's soundtrack, currently one of HMV's top ten sellers, speeds the plot. Like the scene design and the costuming, the film's music contributes to Wenders' vision of the 21st century. Comprised of music specially commissioned for the film, the soundtrack features the work of the Talking Heads, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Depeche Mode and U2, among others...
...love scene against a backdrop of psychedelic macabre, Scar Lover works a kind of wacky magic. But his premise, which is roughly that scars have as much to do with healing as with hurt, doesn't carry him very far, and neither do the grotesque accidents that pass for plot...
...some Busby Berkeley-style fantasy. These shimmering daydreams, afloat in dark space, pay homage to a bygone Broadway and to the movies of the pre-World War II era that have preserved its style for latter- day audiences. Between the wistful glints of remembered magic unfolds a plot aptly concerning two moribund musical theaters, one on the Great White Way, the other in dusty Deadrock, Nev. In both cases the solution is said to be simple: put on a bouncy, pretty, old-fashioned and campily funny extravaganza, heavy on ostrich feathers and light on social significance, and people will come...
Despite the spare plot, Sweetback has a lot to say. Under a veneer of sex and violence, Van Peebles is telling the story of an alienated Black underclass...