The catalog of Amazon Prime Videos it is a constantly evolving catalogue, which tries to keep pace not only with the times, but also with the tastes of the viewers. Since no two viewers are the same and tastes branch out across various film genres, Prime Video provides a breakdown by genre. However, the streaming giant provides for an even more specific classification, to try to really meet all possible tastes. Here then is that among the various proposals there is the inherent i Author’s film.
Arthouse films to watch on Prime Video
Miss Violence
Directed by the Greek director Alexandros Avranas and presented in world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, Miss Violence is a film that thinks about Evil and its ramifications, in a story that is certainly not suitable for everyone and which concerns sexual violence against minors and prostitution. The film begins when an eleven-year-old girl commits suicide by jumping from the balcony of the apartment where she lives with an apparently normal and peaceful family. But, as the story progresses, there is an ever-increasing sense of tension and strange aspects of coexistence emerge with the slowness of a psychological torture: soon the viewer discovers the world of darkness that is hidden behind the four walls.
The Mauritanian
Guilty snubbed at the 2021 Oscars, The Mauritanian is the film that tells the true story by Mohamedou Ould Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim), who was arrested in 2002 in Mauritania on suspicion of being one of the accomplices of the attack on the Twin Towers of 9/11. His arrest is followed by his transfer to the Guantánamo prison camp in Cuba. Here, without a formal charge or the possibility of a trial, the man suffers constant abuse and torture by US soldiers. His only allies are attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and his assistant (Shailene Woodley), who together will try to demonstrate the abuses suffered by the man and bring him to a fair trial. The film directed by Kevin MacDonald, most famous for the film The last king of Scotland.
Melancholia
Perhaps among the least shocking films in the filmography of Lars Von Trier, Melancholia begins with a wedding party. Justine (Kirsten Dunst) arrives with the spouse (Alexander Skarsgaard) arrives at the party with a beaming smile and the appearance that all is well in her life. But slowly, behind the mask, the signs of something wrong begin to be seen, a melancholy depression linked to the relationships she has with her family and with the man she has just married, while a threat on Earth looms on the horizon. and on humanity itself.
She
Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a shy and broken-hearted writer who seems unable to find his place in the world and who is haunted by a kind of pathological sadness. However, his life changes when he starts using an operating system, HER, which a woman’s voice (Scarlett Johansson), which evolves as their relationship deepens. She then becomes a unique entity, who has a degree of understanding and empathy with Theodore, who ends up falling in love with the operating system. After an initial moment of happiness, however, Theodore realizes that the relationship lacks one of the fundamental elements: contact and, above all, physical comfort. Directed by Spike Jonze, Her is a fairy tale and a love story, but also a reflection on the loneliness of our time.
Licorice Pizza
The director’s latest effort Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza tells the story of Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a teenager of the seventies with an acting career already started at an early age. One day Gary meets Alana (Alana Haim), a girl older than him, for whom he immediately falls head over heels. The two start dating, starting projects and having adventures that take them from one part of the city to another, growing up together and falling in love.
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