Julie se tait 2024 10Bit.WEBRip Magnet

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Julie is a star player at an elite tennis academy. When her coach comes under suspicion and is suddenly suspended, all the players at the club are encouraged to speak out. But Julie decides to keep her mouth shut. Belgium’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. This is not a good film. Although the story is quite nice. The script, however, could have used some improvements. It’s as if they had a few scenes in mind and then just worked around them. There are a few good scenes (the one with the confrontation in the cafe comes to mind), but that’s not enough to keep the thing going.The actors are all on top form. Especially the young semi-tennis pro who plays Julie. She really does her best with the material she’s given. But even that’s not enough. There are just too many questions left unanswered: What actually happened between Julie and Jeremy? Why is she silent? One moment she’s having a problem with the new trainer, the next she’s being trained by him (I mean, what the hell?). So story wise, this is just a huge MISTAKE! But here’s my biggest problem with this movie. This director just doesn’t know how to shoot a movie!! The composition is just not right. There is no lighting. There were shadows everywhere. In one scene you can only make out two silhouettes talking to each other. He never cuts a scene between different subjects. It’s like they only have one camera available. Maybe (and this is just a guess) he thinks this will give his movie peace and quiet. But to me it was just annoying as hell. And if you decide not to have cuts in your movie, make sure you stay in a master shot and give us (the audience) a glimpse and look where we want/need to. No, this director decides for himself, we don’t need this information. So in many scenes we see people talking to other people with their heads (half) cut off, or you can only see half of their faces. What do they teach in film school these days??!! Also, was this film shot on an iPhone??!! When I saw that Nicolas Karakatsanis was the cinematographer here, my jaw dropped! He really only half-heartedly did this (pun intended). At times it was just unbearable.To me, this all boils down to one of two things: Either this director doesn’t know the basics of filmmaking, or he just doesn’t care.Maybe he just wants to tell his stories. And that’s fine. But film is a visual medium. And here it was just handled wrong. And I, as a paying customer, want more.

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