“Dark glasses”

Dario Argento is no longer the director of “The Cat of Seven Lives”, “Suspiria” and “Fenómenos”, but “Shadow Glasses”, which Argento had been doing for 20 years, is an acceptable “giallo” of series B Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli), a luxurious Roman prostitute, suffers a car accident while being chased by a serial killer and goes blind. The criminal continues to threaten her, but now Diana is helped by a Chinese boy, the son of the couple who died in the car she crashed into. This unlikely pair of heroes, a few moments and hits at the height of the Argento of the great times and the duration of less than an hour and a half, are enough to leave us satisfied.

“The Minamata Photographer”

In this film by Andrew Levitas, Johnny Depp plays the American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who was in Japan in the early 1970s to do a report for the magazine life on the population of the coastal town of Minamata, who suffered from the disease of the same name, caused by mercury poisoning. Seawater and fish were contaminated by this liquid metal, which came from discharges made by the chemical factory of the Chisso company, which refused to compensate the locals. Depp’s performance and Levitas’s good intentions are not enough to counter all the stereotypes, clichés and dramatic hooks of the “cause movie”.

“Daniel and Danielle”

Documentary by journalist Sofia Pinto Coelho about Daniel Nunes, an octogenarian Cape Verdean who lives in Portugal and has one of the largest libraries in Portuguese-speaking Africa, and his 12-year-old daughter Daniela. After hearing her talk about a “dark colleague”, her father decides to take Daniela on a trip to Cape Verde, São Tomé and Guinea-Bissau, so that he can learn about the origins of the family and her roots. But she, like a good teenager, seems more interested in her cell phone and in the quality of the network in the places she visits, than in what her somewhat insistent father wants to show her and transmit. “Daniel e Daniela” needed more time to develop and deepen her theme.

“Ticket to Paradise”

Romantic comedy with Julia Roberts and George Clooney playing an art dealer and a married architect, with a daughter (Kaitlyn Dever), a recently graduated lawyer, divorced and who cannot see herself or paint. But they have to bury the hatchet when her daughter, who went on vacation with her best friend to Bali, lets them know that she has met a boy she has fallen in love with and with whom she is going. marry. To the distraught parents, Lily will make the same mistake they made 25 years ago, so they head to Bali to avoid marriage. “Ticket to Paradise” was chosen as the movie of the week by The Observer and you can read the review here.