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Rosamund Pike as a criminal senior carer in "I Care a Lot"
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"I Care A Lot," Netflix
When the actress Rosamund Pike appeared next to Pierce Brosnan in 2002 for "Die Another Day" in front of a film camera, the term "Bond Girl" was still unironically used.
He was also put on the then 23-year-old Pike, although she endowed her mini role with enormous acting intelligence.
In the meantime, the British woman has proven her skills many times over: She can not only illustrate feelings, but also non-feelings.
Despair like freezing cold, like in her furious appearance in David Fincher's "Gone Girl".
In the western drama "Hostiles" that gets under your skin, Pike moved as a traumatized widow.
It can be rediscovered just twice.
The British miniseries “State of the Union” can be found in the ARD media library, in which Pike argues with her husband in a sensationally relaxed manner.
The approximately ten-minute episodes were written by Nick Hornby.
And in the Netflix thriller satire "I Care a Lot" she is far superior to the plot as the leading actress: The story about a carer who puts seniors in a nursing home to enrich herself with them looks like an incoherent robber's gun.
Thanks to Pike, the film is still worth seeing.
She puts on a furious show as a cutthroat who puts her - male - opponents on the back without a spark of fear.
Oliver Kaever
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Daniel Day-Lewis (right) as the nefarious oil magnate Daniel Plainviews in "There Will Be Blood"
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"Best of Berlinale", Arte media library
Now the pandemic has also paralyzed the world's largest public festival - Potsdamer Platz remains in hibernation without the Berlinale.
No queues of movie madmen anywhere, no shivering stars on the red carpet.
There is nothing left but to indulge at least in memories of past festivals at home.
Arte offers the opportunity to do so: With seven films that have caused a sensation in recent years.
These include Paul Thomas Anderson's visually stunning oil magnate epic “There Will Be Blood” (from February 21) and the psychological thriller “Remainder” by Omer Fast.
A streaming evening with these films will almost certainly reinforce one thing: the longing for a long evening at the cinema.
Oliver Kaever
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May dance with the girls in ballet lessons, but is not accepted as such: Schoolgirl Sasha (in red costume) in the documentary »Little Girl«
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"Little girl", video on demand
Parents notice it when their child cries out of deep inner pain, says mother Karine in the award-winning French documentary »Little Girl«.
She experienced it herself when her child Sasha was four years old and said: "When I grow up, I want to be a girl!" When Karine explained that it was unfortunately impossible because Sasha was born a boy, Sasha cried in pain and disappointment.
Three years later, when Sébastien Lifshitz begins to follow Sasha and her family with the camera, the situation has changed.
Karine, her husband and their other three children have learned to understand and treat Sasha as a girl according to their wishes.
Only the class teacher and the school principal refuse to see anything other than a boy in Sasha.
Lifshitz provides unique insights in his film - not only because he succeeds in creating an extremely cautious portrait of a child with gender dysphoria, but also because he doesn't make a story of edification out of it.
Sasha is not a little fighter fighting for her rights, but a child that adults profoundly violate with their rigid ideas of sexual identity.
"Little Girl" is a film that makes this pain understandable for everyone.
(at Salzgeber Club) Hannah Pilarczyk
And here you will find the current »crime scene«.
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