On the devil island, a prisoner is trying to escape the brutal prison, he failed many times and tortured for his failure but he did not give up. Cheers! for all the prisoners trying to escape their prisons!!! also the ideological prisons!

One of the few films that show the North-South conflict with acceptable degree of honesty. E.M. Foster novel was a beautiful account about colonial time at India.

Hamlet said once: Denmark is a prison. A good one. With confines, wards and dungeons. One of the worst (act II scene II). Her is an immigrant to Denmark, a Swedish one, yet he suffers humiliation and oppression but his big dream keeps him alive as abrave, hardworking and ambitionous young man. beautiful film.

A film about an iranian girl and Iran after the islamic revolution. Good scenaro and film making. Many objective remarks about Iran but many wrong allegations about Islam not surprisingly that the film got a good French support!

The paradis' keys for example is part of propaganda that Iraq used in the first Gulf war 1980-1988 and it is related to the famous Iranian authored book few centuries ago "keys to Paradis". Many Shi'a had this book. many Iranian soldiers of course carried it with them to the front. This very beautiful prayer book was forbidden in Iraq and when Iraqi prisoners of war got a copy of it, the propganda draw it as they got keys to paradise!!!

What could be more fascinating than this wonderful painting of a "contemporary woman", although the film was interpreted as a story about psychopath, it is a story that we see from time to time. A woman who is craving for sex meantime denying her will and suppressing her feelings, destroying her emotional life just to show how strong she is. A master piece despite cruel emotions. Isabelle Huppert proved again and again how fantastic actress is she.

I think many of the prizes the was awarded for political reasons. the film was by no means an outstanding performance or production.

A musical and cinematic master piece so powerful in effecting the emotion and talking to the mind. I wonder how can people go to wars after such antiwar film!

 although very good from the technical point of view, it has many ideological defects. Furthermore, it has not a high quality scenario, however, it is more than good in showing some of the terrible things the American have done in Vietnam. It shows as well the American soldier's ethics, education and morale...all extremely low.