Watched in 2011

10   6.8   7.2 

Noctem's rating:

366   7.2   7.2 

Noctem's rating:

10   6.3   7.1 

Aktan Arym Kubat

Noctem's rating:

13   7.5   6.9 

Nikos Koundouros

Noctem's rating:

298   7.7   0 

Noctem's rating:

2546   8.2   8.7 

Michael Curtiz

Noctem's rating:

378   7.8   7.6 

Noctem's rating:

1906   7.8   8 

Noctem's rating:

451   7.3   7.8 

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Noctem's rating:

727   8.1   7.8 

Noctem's rating:

1094   7.8   7.8 

Nicholas Ray

Noctem's rating:

185   7.7   7.7 

Jirí Menzel

Noctem's rating:

122   7.3   7.1 

Vittorio De Sica

Noctem's rating:

123   7.9   7.7 

Vittorio De Sica

Noctem's rating:

293   8.2   8.1 

Roberto Rossellini

Noctem's rating:

308   8   7.5 

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Noctem's rating:

10   6.4   6.9 

Šarūnas Bartas

Noctem's rating:

869   8.4   8.4 

Vittorio De Sica



I liked Umberto D. better, but it's very clear their both in the same category. Maybe my mood wasn't that good this time ;)

Noctem's rating:

84   7.9   8 

Larisa Shepitko



Two Soviet partisans depart their starving band on a short march to a nearby farm to get supplies. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

I find the plot very simple. This and and even the setting (thick cover of white snow everywhere) makes it seem as a rather minimalist or just simplistic movie. I'm a little bit familiar with partisan movement of my own country. Even though they struggled against Soviet Army, this particular story told in The Ascent has a several similarities to real stories of partisan of my country. (Though perhaps all partisan movements of that period in Europe had such similarities.)
The Ascent gropes one of the main contradictions in life of a partisan - whether to switch the sides or not? Who can you trust? Permanent suspence. Principles and easy possibilities to sell them.
Siuation that examines this as I said is a very simplistic one. I have felt a lack of complexity.
On the other hand, the simplicity emphasises The Ascent's allegoric side - the ascent of one's inward journey as opposed to other's interchanging descents and ascents.

Noctem's rating:

106   8.2   7.9 

Carlos Saura

Noctem's rating:

324   8.2   8 

Luis Bunuel

Noctem's rating:

304   8.4   8.2 

Vittorio De Sica

Noctem's rating:

104   7.6   7.2 

Carlos Reygadas

Noctem's rating:

69   6.3   6.1 

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Noctem's rating:

67   7.6   6.4 

Philippe Garrel

Noctem's rating:

65   7   6.9 

DIR: Claire Denis

Noctem's rating:

1284   6.9   6.8 

DIR: Terrence Malick

Noctem's rating:

361   5.7   5.3 

DIR: Julia Leigh

Noctem's rating:

1958   7.8   8.2 

Sam Wood & George Cukor

Noctem's rating:

94   7.7   7.6 

DIR: Béla Tarr

Noctem's rating:

24   7.6   7 

DIR: Béla Tarr

Noctem's rating:

120   8.1   6.9 

DIR: Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky

Noctem's rating:

63   8.2   6.7 

DIR: Andrzej Zulawski

Noctem's rating:

16   7.2   6.3 

DIR: Melville Webber & James Sibley Watson

Noctem's rating:

121   7.9   7.3 

DIR: Jean Cocteau

Noctem's rating:

157   7.7   7.9 

DIR: Jean Cocteau

Noctem's rating:

1128   7.4   7.1 

DIR: Lars von Trier

Noctem's rating:

159   8.2   7.5 

DIR: Béla Tarr

Noctem's rating:

229   7.9   7.9 

DIR: Victor Erice

Noctem's rating:

453   7.9   7.9 

Noctem's rating:

12   6   6.8 

DIR: Volker Schlöndorff

Noctem's rating:

173   7.9   7.8 

DIR: Andrzej Wajda

Noctem's rating:

6   7   6.7 

DIR: Arūnas Žebriūnas

Noctem's rating:

4   8   7 

DIR: Arūnas Žebriūnas

Noctem's rating:

42   7.3   7.7 

DIR: Wojciech Has

Noctem's rating:

60   7.5   7.1 

DIR: Miloš Forman
Czechoslovakia

Noctem's rating:

982   7.7   7.6 

DIR: Michael Haneke

Noctem's rating:

38   7.6   7.2 

DIR: Volker Schlöndorff

Noctem's rating:

35   7.8   7.5 

DIR: Jacques Rivette
Star: Anna Karina

Noctem's rating:

69   7.7   7.4 

DIR: Volker Schlöndorff
Western Germany

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