Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

A lot of fun.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

James Franco just keeps getting worse and worse as an actor and of course because he is a good looking guy and a "White" man in Hollywood it doesn't matter because he would continue to get film roles in which he plays the lead character flanked by actors and actresses that innocent film-goers such as myself love and have no choice but to suffer through just because they are starring opposite James Franco, the lucky Hollywood golden boy. Watching this film (which wouldn't have been bad if it didn't have Mr. Franco) was like watching a very long commercial break during Franco's ill-advised stint as an Oscar co-host opposite poor Anne Hathaway a few years back. How much longer do we have to endure this guy's sleep-walk excuse for an acting career?

This blew my mind. I immediately sat down and began to write the poetry that will make me rich and famous! It is a sad movie. One punk dies and they don't even show it! Shame on you Wim for not showing the gore!The writer sleeps with the punk's mother. The don't have sex. She cradles him like a dog.He can't make kids. He's senile middle aged---probably had his prostate removed when he was ten! Not virile. But writes novels that gets awards and gives him a fancy home and he's a chick magnet!This show rocks.Later someone pisses on his bed, but it makes no sense to me.There's smiles and sunlight. There's reading to ease panic.This guy does not like writers. This he quotes.

I came into this movie with low expectations, but was pleasantly surprised to find a well crafted, affecting story. The plot itself is very simplistic. So much so that one begins to wonder if this idea could be made into an almost two hour movie. But that is where this movie begins to show its' genius. Time itself, it seems is under study in this movie. A tragic accident occurs. A young boy is killed. And the next 90+ minutes reveals the effect it has, not only to the main characters involved, but also the people that they love. It is beautifully shot and well acted. It tugs at your heart strings, but never so roughly that you will notice that you yourself are being affected by the passage of time. Many of the events that occur seem logical and are character revealing. It's hard to dislike this movie. It just goes to show that even the most mundane of ideas can bear rich fruit.

I had given up expecting anything great from Wim Wenders a long time ago;he still made it in my best five list of directors of all time because of his German films of the seventies, but my enthusiasm had diminished after The state of things-his last masterpiece, in my opinion, up till now-and as times went by he, unfortunately, became a replica of himself, seeming to run after what he one was but ending up with a feeling of an awkward imitation, no matter how beautifully shot his movies always were. So it was a very pleasant surprise to watch in Everything will be fine the Wenders I once adored come back.The film is a lesson in directing, so beautiful, solid, subtle and emotionally rich-it is the only film for years that made me cry-and at the same time it is discreetly under the spell of the personality of the man who once made Alice in the cities and In the passage of time.The trailer I had watched says much about the plot but nothing about the way Wenders drives his actors-unexpectedly excellent, some of them-and the whole movie to a kind of perfection we encounter only in the Great:Antonioni, Polanski, Bergman, and, yes, among others, Wenders himself.This also means that the movie functions perfectly not only aesthetically but transfers feelings and ideas with maximum impact through minimum means.A masterpiece!