The Neon Demon / La La Land

Maybe The Neon Demon and La La Land can't differ more in its genre but the amazing beauty of their stills somehow connects them. These are the kind of still that makes you want to see a film! It magically grabs your interest and you already have the feeling you can get lost into amazing and beautiful scenery.

Esthetical beauty can make or brake a film on its own, as a director you have to be 100% sure of how to use it or your masterpiece quickly becomes some try-to-be-arty trash.

So-won / Hope (2013)

So-won (hope) is an extremely heavy and heartbreaking Korean film about how to deal, within a family,  after a traumatic and devastating tragedy. When a young girl get raped the safe world of her and her parents immediately collaps and the entire world turns to the deepst shade of black. What follows isn't a thriller like chase for the bad guy but it focusses on emotions instead. How could people ever deal with this kind of horror and how can they go back to their lives as it once was? Director Lee Joon Ik ('The King and the Clown')  really created a masterpiece by focussing on the family instead of the horrific event, Though it is rather depressing ans sometimes very hard to watch without becoming emotional as well it also honors its title 'Hope',  because even in the darkest shade of black something seems to shimmer.

You exist in My song - Qu Wanting

and sometimes there is just music which you don't even have to understand the language for.
Really amazingly done by Qu Wanting. 73 million views and here in the Netherlands not even a single soul ever heard about it.