Ball Lightning: Reviews of Babylon, Birthday Wishes and the series Good morning, Brno!
Damien Chazelle’s directorial and screenwriting effort turns to the period of classic Hollywood BABYLON, with which he would like to win an Oscar. In 2017, you are for a musical La La Land he did not take the statue. The studio is probably banking on the prestige and mixed critical reception, hoping for some awards in Oscar season, as the star-studded cast (Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie) has so far made the film a flop in the United States. The length, which exceeds three hours, and the inaccessibility of the youth due to the imagination of Hollywood excess, plus the high number of fiction about fiction in the last year hit the cinemas, does not pull. And it’s also not so clear-cut with the gilded bald heads, as the Academy tends to value nostalgic hindsight, thus Chazelle’s Singing in the rain with elephant dung, blood, pissing, poison, cocaine, a row of dead people (…) it really isn’t. Hollywood, nicknamed the dream factory, is shown here as one big party turning into a nightmare.
Ball Lightning: Prušinovského Good morning, Brno! is a disappointment pdc, klb, Marek
“I’ve been following Damien Chazelle’s work since his phenomenal second film Whiplashwhich was inscribed in the wider audience awareness as a talent of the creator. Babylon is a magnum opus dominated by Margot Robbie, who – as much as I don’t like the wording – performs an acting gig, with the help of composer Justin Hurwitz,” Jana Bébarová supported her enthusiasm. And he justifies why this is so: “In the admitted inspiration of the series Babylon Berlin director and screenwriter in one person portrays Hollywood as one big decadent party, while also taking us behind the scenes of film production. It brilliantly captures the process of the transition from the silent era to the sound era, from the organization of filming, the transformation of film language and the point of view of demands on acting stars,” Jana appreciates how the film is both entertaining and educational, without excluding it.
For Jana, Babylon is a ride she will definitely do again. Marek Slovák has already bought a ticket for the next performance. “Definitely Damien Chazelle’s best effort and, even though it may be premature at the end of January, one of the films of the year,” exclaims Marek ecstatically, who liked how different it is from other fiction about fiction (cinematography). “He does not romanticize, on the contrary, as one of the few, he does the fact that cinematography arose from vaudeville and the circusi.e. the so-called lower forms of art, and it is one big sequence of tourist manifestations that even degraded art is born from blood, feces, urine, vomit and other fluids.”
According to Mark, “Hollywood has been here for years as something that creates the appearance of progress, to which minorities (ethnic, racial, sexual) are sacrificed, while they are only technological, but build on the same, only varied foundations. With those basics, especially in terms of classical storytelling and (invisible) style, Babylon argues masterfully. It’s like crossing the depressing musicals of Bob Fosse (Cabaret, All That Jazz) with films with multiple protagonists and protagonists who and which meet differently, by Robert Altman (Nashville, Cuts). Or, as someone else put it even better, as if Tinto Brass, the Italian creator of satirical piggies with orgies Caligula AND Salon Kittyfilmed a remake Singing in the rain.”
Babylon Marko and Jana ran over 100%they are in awe of it.
Hey concessionaires!
Jan Prušinovský is one of the few domestic filmmakers who adapts the narrative to the local environment and its specifics, while, unlike comedies for a mainstream audience, he also focuses on neglected places of the republic. With a new series that unlike A dwarf AND MOST! was not created based on Petr Koleček’s scenarios, he boldly went to Brno.
Good morning, Brno!
Author: Czech Television
For GOOD MORNING, BRNO! unfortunately, after the first three parts out of a total of eight, “good for Brno” does not apply. “I don’t have a problem with inappropriate humor, but the one present in the series is way over the top. I am surprised that Czech Television, in a time of crisis and cutbacks, allowed itself to aim at its own ranks and devalue the work of the people who prepare the morning show every day,” Jana grumbles about the non-judicial nature of the public institution. “Undoubtedly, it touches on realistic aspects (weird guests, make-up artists and hair stylists on strike), but it fatally neglects the essential role of screenwriters and dramaturgs, who do not exist in the world of thoroughly awkward jumpers,” Jana criticizes, saying that the series considers and neglects the work of people, while it is not even funny.
Marek, on the other hand, does not find the series incorrect. “Making fun of Good Morning is like making fun of the Post Office for you, there is nothing provocative about it. Moreover, the jokes are either too insider, i.e. for insiders, or they act as an alibis (it’s not true, but a fiction!) or an excuse (we make fun of things that normally happen, like sleeping with subordinates and taking drugs). But most of all, individual jokes have bad timing,” says Marek about humor. But he appreciates that “the series critically shows that public television is not about creativity or talent, but craft, and that it’s about viewership numbers more than anything else. And in the character of the homeless man, who is the smartest and most likable of all, it shows that this is the work of Prušinovský.”
Jana looked up Good morning, Brno! offers on 20%, Marek is waiting for all eight episodes with a final rating.
Something like humor
Eva Holubová almost had a heart attack when she learned that Tomáš Klus was gay. At least that’s part of the plot of the wacky family comedy of errors BIRTHDAY CARDS, which was committed by the director and co-screenwriter Marta Ferencová with the original editor and producer Adam Dvořák, who made his debut here as a (co-)screenwriter. Jaroslav Dušek, Veronika Khek Kubařová, Jaroslav Plesl, Matěj Hádek, Simona Babčáková complete Holubová and Klus in something that people should go to the cinema to see, because there are familiar faces and something like humor is practiced there.
In the film Happy Birthday, Igor Orozovič plays the partner of Tomáš Klus
Author: Bioscop
Marek, who, unlike Jana, bravely went to the cinema, I am trying to find some positivity. “Unlike.” All or nothing AND Too personal acquaintance, Marta Ferencová’s two previous films, there is no fun rape or attempted rape. And instead of a caricature of a homosexual that serves only as a punch line in pseudo-humor, gays are depicted here in a way that does not offend the most conservative audience. The other characters almost have heart attacks when they see them holding hands in the year 2023.” Marek was not surprised that it was unfunny, as I expected a similar comedic parapiade based on previous directorial experience. But he was struck by how big a piece of work it was: “In places it seems like an avant-garde, in which several apparently different places are connected within the editing montages. Soon the lost children get off at the city station on P, their extended family searches in the square in Brno and in Prague, even though it is supposed to be the same city, or its immediate surroundings. But I’m afraid that unlike Wachowski or Kuleshova, Ferencová doesn’t experiment.”
Marek would prefer not to carry out similar experiments with Czech attempts at mainstream comedies, evaluation is delayed and I needed a detox.
What did Marek and Jana say about the horror film ONO and the melodrama VŠECHNY MÉ DOPYSY SPAL, which were shown as part of the SCANDI Nordic film show before entering distribution? If you want to know more, listen to the podcast/watch the Ball Lightning vidcast.
Good morning, Brno!
Author: Czech Television