Rome, like never before in 'The Great Beauty'
HER
to recreate The Angels of the near future, Spike Jonze decided to mix it with the zone of shanghai pudong , and we applaud his choice. The result is a realistic yet futuristic mix of Asian macro cities with distressing skyscrapers , pristine pedestrian areas, subway stations (Hollywood/Western in Los Angeles) where you could eat on the floors and, two steps away, the beach (Santa Monica ) wave mountain (a resort in the lake tahoe ) to enjoy them with the loved one. Even when it's not a being at all.
Joaquin Phoenix in Her
AMERICAN HUSTLE
The New York of the seventy it is overshadowed by the giant lapels, the wrap dresses and the V-necklines of the leading quartet. In addition to the dance floors and the neighborhoods to be reconverted involved in a confusing plot of urban corruption, the setting that shines the most is the luxurious Sherman Suite in the Hotel Plaza, scene of a tocomocho in which the swindlers are swindled… or not.
PHILOMENA
Ah, autumn, and especially ah, autumn in Ireland and oh, the fall in New England . Judi Dench and Steve Coogan tour the british countryside and a seemingly peaceful Irish abbey to end up in Washington (with a visit to the Lincoln Memorial) in search of justice against a seemingly international villain: nuns steal children.
12 YEARS OF SLAVERY
It would be frivolous to gloss over the beauty behind a so tragic true story , full of whipping, abuse and rape, but that's the way it is: between the unrelieved drama there is time to photograph sunsets in Georgia , fields of cotton in the sun , the great mississippi and those plantations ( Felicity, Magnolia, Bocage or St Joseph in Louisiana ) that we can visit today as revenues of a world that could be beautiful if it touched you from the right side. Let us not be blinded by its brilliance or its elegance: everything was based on an ignominy.
The Great American South in '12 Years a Slave'
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Definitely, the story of a ship captain kidnapped by Somali pirates in the horn of africa we don't want to start doing the backpack.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
In his clandestine struggle to improve the quality of life of AIDS patients and, in the process, make a fortune, the slimmed-down Matthew McConaughey tour Japan, China, Amsterdam and Israel . Being trips in search of loopholes against the pharmaceutical industry, the destinations show little, just as the border crossings of Mexico loaded with illegal (or “unapproved”) drugs . What there is is a lot of interchangeable eighties city, a lot of rodeo and a lot of bar with its right point of sleaze, that's why we give it a 2.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
This fast-paced example of the cocaine films of Martin Scorsese takes us to the world of obscenely rich . Of course we have offices of wall street , views of Downtown , nods to icons like the tower Trump , mansions and country clubs of those who can summer in the Bahamas and have a house in the hamptons ; but we also have the essential stop at Geneva for financiers of high_standing_, London , and the coast of portofino to the rhythm of Gloria Umberto Tozzi . A window to the good life that is achieved with amoral shenanigans.
The wolf of Wall Street
NEBRASKA
alexander payne , author of the very traveler _ Entre copas _ or _ Los descendants _ (although our favorite will always be Election) speaks here about family and illusions of senescence in the form of road movies in black and white that goes from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska . In between, a visit to the – by mouth of Bruce Dern - incomplete and disappointing Mount Rushmore and many very beautiful and very tumblreable images of roadside motels, long expanses of fields, cows grazing on the horizon, semi-desert towns, Hopper-style manor houses, and everything in between. composes in our mind America.
sprawling Nebraska
GRAVITY
Granted, the film is a compendium of everything that can go wrong on a seemingly routine spacewalk, but before the accident, man, what we are shown is literally the beauty of the world. The planet earth in that glorious 3-D and those sequence shots of the evolutions in weightlessness make us want more than ever to be billionaires for space tourism , that destination in which you could boast that, really, hardly anyone has been.
Gravity: 3D space
Apart from the nominees for best film , we cannot leave the following works out of this year's list of film travel inspirations:
ABOUT LLEWYN DAVIS
The Coens recreate a New York in the early sixties in which the cold is breathed. We are invited to tour washington square , the Upper West Side , to go down by subway to the Village and make a road trip to Chicago to finish exactly as at the beginning, if possible more battered.
The New York of the sixties in 'About Llewyn Davis'
BLUE JASMINE
Woody Allen moves us from the elitists Park Ave. and the Hamptons to the San Francisco most popular, with great views of the golden-gate , to the iconic slopes of the city and to the great tragedies of our time.
THE GREAT BEAUTY
Rome She appears so breathtakingly beautiful in this film that it is as if we are seeing her for the first time.
SAVING MR. BANKS
This film-within-a-film story about the gestation of Mary Poppins takes us to disneyland , which has to be on this list because with its successful exploitation of the corporate image it is, as we all know, the happiest place on earth.
'The great beauty': Rome, better than ever