After serving as a British Army nurse during World War II, Claire Randall is enjoying her second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband Frank, an MI6 officer looking forward to a new career as a historian at Oxford. Suddenly Claire is transported back to the year 1743, to a mysterious world where her freedom and her life are threatened. To survive, she marries Jamie Fraser, a muscular Scottish warrior with a complicated past and a charming sense of humor. A passionate relationship develops and Claire finds herself caught between two completely different men in two discordant lives. “Outlander” is an adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling books.
These eyes Screenplay by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings Performance by The Guess Who
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An absurd triptych of seemingly unrelated stories finds a mysterious point of intersection in this story, which takes place somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran. Canada’s official bid for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. From cinematography and the usual search for symmetry, whether in static or moving frames, and a pleasant aesthetic with a dream-like atmosphere that enhances the universality of the setting, to the story revolving around different characters, how their lives intersect and animate the dialogue, sometimes polite, sometimes not so much, Wes Anderson’s influence permeates Matthew Rankin’s film from start to finish.
Independent tourist guide with a strange choice for his tour, etc
As in Anderson’s films, Rankin is interested in exploring the reality of his film, a reality full of idiosyncrasies that serve as fertile ground for comedy. An angry teacher in the classroom shouts at the students, one of whom claims that the turkey stole his glasses; the second is dressed like Groucho Marx because he wants to become a comedian; and another as a fashionista. d.
Rankin’s dexterity manages to evoke a surreal fairy tale, but also an expressive introspective melancholy
With a comedy of irony, levity and black humor, “Une langue universelle” manages to be funny every time it wants to. In many cases, his events border on absurdity or surrealism, contributing to the comedy that envelops him, but never undermines his goal – thought-provoking depth. Elements and feelings that unite and give life to a special experience between places and times, realities and dreams.
The camera is sometimes static at a distance, watching their movement and how it affects their surroundings, instead of focusing on their faces and expressions in close-up
For example, in the reality of the film, even though we are in Canada, French, let alone English, seems like a second language, and Persian is in its place. They all speak it, and signs and billboards are written in it, presenting its outcome as something close yet distant, known and unknown, intertwining in a culturally and demographically blind new reality. From the point of view of the cinematography, which in many cases resembles the cinematography of Anderson, more in terms of framing and movement than in terms of color palette, there is a constant desire to inhabit the spaces in which the characters are located.
It’s as if the place is as important as the characters to the story, and Rankin wants to make sure we immerse ourselves in it like tourists from a foreign country
And although we can know these cities from the point of view of the names, within the framework of the film and its demographic profile, which does not correspond to our knowledge, there may be reasons to delve into these spaces.
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