Drama Movies - Movie Review Example

Nights of Cabiria is an Italian drama involving a Prostitute plying her trade in Rome. Though Cabiria is a prostitute yet she emphatically desires to seek the love of her life. In her quest for true love, she comes in contact with a series of men affiliated with different social and economic strata. However, till the end of the movie, she is unable to seek true love in her life. During her search, she comes to the realization that though life is made beautiful by certain universal values like kindness and goodness, true love is an elusive entity that is hard to seek and find.
2. Breathless- Jean Luc Godard
It is a movie about a French criminal Michel who is enamored by the cinematic persona of Humphrey Bogart. He ends up killing a policeman while committing a crime and is shown to be on the run by the police. Perchance he comes across an American girl with whom he falls in love. This youthful American girl Patricia is ambivalent about her feelings of love for Michel though she does her best to help him and make good his escape to Italy. Eventually, Patricia gives in to the ambivalence bothering her and betrays Michel to the police, who is shot dead while making an escape.
3. Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir
This is a war film that is based on the feeling of camaraderie between groups of French prisoners of war. This film presents the essential humanity in the soldiers affiliated to the warring sides and the cinematic drama in the film ensues from the prisoners of war Marechal and Rosenthal making good their escape from the Germans towards the Swiss border. The romantic drama in the film owes to an affair between a German woman Elsa and Marechal, who is eventually renounced by Marechal to be true to his call of duty.
4. Au Hasard Balthazar- Robert Bresson
Au Hasard Balthazar is a film showcasing the life of a young farm girl and her donkey. Though the girl and the donkey eventually get separated, the film traces the life of both as they come in contact with different people and suffer abuse and violence at their hands. The donkey is shown to take abuse and violence from his varied owners with a sense of poise and grace, which elevates him to the rank of a saint. In contrast, though the girl also suffers abundant violence and abuse in her life, her destiny remains unresolved and chaotic, thereby bringing a sense of irony into the plot. Read More