Mini-Review: Valhalla Rising does a few things right; there's some beautiful, arresting imagery on display here, and while the characters, setting and story are all certainly intriguing, they are presented in a particularly opaque manner. There's next to no dialogue, long periods of brooding silence accompanied by a droning, martial-industrial soundtrack, but it's the pace, or sheer lack of it, that really lets Valhalla Rising down, and while I enjoyed the experience, it's not a film I could easily reccomend

Mini-Review: With 'Vincere' Bellocchio and his lead actors present a mature and thought provoking look at one of the most clouded stories of Fascist Italy's past with an uncanny sense of style and dramatic flair that is punctuated by the film's wonderful classical score and Giovanna Mezzogiorno's career defining performance, which is somewhat allegorical of the film as a whole, as like Italian society Dalser too was seduced and betrayed by the charm of the fierce and intelligent Mussolini. A remarkable film. [Read Full Review]