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JOURNAL DE FRANCE
- Very personal
Film by and about reknowned French photographer,
journalist and documentary film maker
Raymond Depardon. This documentary made
with his wife who is also his co-worker
centers on himself and his work by going
back and forward from his early work
as a war journalist in the 3rd world
to his latest photo work in rural France.

DE ROUILLE ET D’OS
- Great acting and directing
French drama film featured in the Cannes Festival
of 2012 directed by Jaques Audiard featuring
Marion Cotillard as a whale trainer
who loses her legs in an accident who eventually
gets involved with a boxer played by the Belgian
actor Matthias Schoenaerts. Once they hook
up this odd couple seem to work things out
for the best of both. He helps her recuperating
from her accident and she gives him emotional
stability.

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
- Horribly funny
A sort of Wayne s world of horror movies this
conceptual horror-comedy film with B movie
esthetics surprises because it is smart and funny
at the same time.

PROMETHEUS
- Major scifi production
Entertaining scifi extravaganza directed by Ridley Scott
about a spaceship out to explore a distant planet
on the search for extraterrestrials supposed to be the
creators of life on earth.

MARGIN CALL
- Meet the evil bankers
Thriller about the starting moments of the financial
crisis of 2008. Great cast, great acting by Kevin Spacey
and Jeremy Irons as ruthless investment bankers
trying to save themselves from their greedy mistakes.
The movie seems to be based on the Lehman Brothers
collapse.

HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR FOSTER?
- Publicity documentary
Very predictable documentary about a
very predictable mainstream architect whose
corporate buildings surprise more
by their quantity and their size than
by their level of architectural poetry.
Too bad they did not make a film about James Stirling.

MOONRISE KINGDOM
- Lots of sensibility
Wes Anderson comedy about a couple of problematic
teenagers falling in love and their planned escape.
Great art direction and nice acting. Excellent.

DARK SHADOWS
- More funny horror
Directed by Tim Burton this film recreates the late sixties
ABC TV series features Johnny Depp as Bartabas the vampire.
As usual, Burton entertains with a well crafted film
centered on the right mix of comedy and horror in order
to obtain burlesque results .

CLOCLO
- Obsessive French singer
Commercial French movie about Claude Francois (Cloclo)
a French pop singer/composer who composed the song
My Way (Comme de habitude) later sung by Frank Sinatra.
Cloclo was very famous during the sixties and seventies in France.
The movie shows the complexities of his character.

OSLO, AUGUST 31st
- Dark and emotional
Excellent but very sad and grim movie
about a junkie who leaves his drug treatment in a
rehabilitation center and how he spends his
last day before committing suicide by a heroin overdose.

BULLHEAD
- Heavy duty
Belgian film that revolves around the mafia
for animal antibiotics and certain tragic stories
of people involved on this mafia.

EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
- Calculated commercial
Commercial Anglo American movie featuring Tom Hanks
about the suffering of a kid who looses his father in 9-11 and
how he manages to deal with this loss.

TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY
- Old style thriller
Spy thriller featuring Gary Oldman that sends
us back to the cold war when the Berlin Wall
was still dividing the world in two halves.

LES INTOUCHABLES
- Funny and entertaining
Major commercial French film about
a paraplegic and his medical assistant who
comes from an immigrant minority and how
they establish a deep emotional bond and
friendship in spite of class, cultural and ethnical
differences.

TAKE SHELTER
- Nice
Suspense film about a man in his thirties living
on the country side with his wife and daughter
starts going whacko and getting paranoid ideas
about a huge end of the world storm coming his
way. Everything is going on his mind.

LE HAVRE
- Old fashioned contemporary
A child form Africa illegally disembarks
in Le Havre and is helped to get to England
by an old unemployed man.
Nice atmosphere on this film.

SHAME
- Feeling lonely and sexy
Movie about a sex maniac and his difficulties
in establishing a real relationship.

CARNAGE
- Theatrical
Two couples discuss a fight in school between
their sons and discover in the process
lots about themselves. Great acting by Cristoph Waltz.
Directed by Roman Polanski.

INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
- It is OK
Mediocre documentary about the
internal mechanics of the
legendary newspaper the
New York Times and about the
challenges it faces in the digital era.

TOUS AU LARZAC
- Historical
French documentary that
shows the long struggle between
a small group of farmers in France
and the French army in order to
avoid their land being confiscated
for an army base.

POLISSE
- Intense
French movie about the
police corps who fight child
abuse in Paris.

THE ARTIST
- Very silent
French silent movie in black and white
about the life of a famous movie star that
gets wiped out when sound gets introduced
on film.

BLUE VALENTINE
- Ok
This film with a lot of back and forwards
centers on a young working class
couple whose marriage falls apart.

BARNEY'S VERSION
- Smart and funny
Smart comedy featuring Paul Giamatti and
Dustin Hoffman about the life of Barney Panofsky
a TV producer.

DRIVE
- Visually sensible
A drifter whose profession is driving
stunts on films gets involved with the mafia.

RESTLESS
- Deeply melancholic and gay
Story about a terminally ill teenage girl
and her love story with a boy before
she dies. Very emotional film.
Directed by Gus van Sant this film.

MELANCHOLIA
- Blow your brains away
Lars Von Trier hits a big home run with this exoteric,
sci fi, deep emotional film about the end
of the world.

HABEMUS PAPAM
- Funny
Nanni Moretti's comedy speculates on a pope
that gets a panic attack once he is elected as
the new pope of the catholic church. He runs
away in panic, hides and finally resigns.

LA PIEL QUE HABITO
- Solid film making
Almodovar and Antonio Banderas
are back again together after many
years on this thriller about love,
hate, violence and death.

REVERÓN
- Different
Finally a decent film by Diego Risquez
about the life of Venezuelan painter
Armando Reverón.

TREE OF LIFE
- Spacey
Drama featuring Sean Penn and Brad Pit
as father and son who have a complex family
relationship.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
- Loved it
Woody finally makes it to Paris and produces
a haunted Film that elaborates on nostalgia
for the life of famous Angloamericans living
in Paris during the 20s.

WASTE LAND
- Art & trash
Vick Muniz finds himself involved
with lots of trash in Brazil in order
to get some art done.

BLACK SWAN
- Great acting
Dark movie with great acting that gives
an insight into the world of professional ballet.

THE FIGHTER
- Intense
Drugs and boxing mix in this drama about
two brothers in their pursuit of a boxing title.

THE KING S SPEECH
- Historic propaganda
King George VI of England seems to have had
speech problems that he finally surmounts.

TRUE GRIT
- Unexceptionally Coen Bros
Western saga about a little girl who sees her father shot
and looks for the best marshal in order to capture
the killers. Directed by the mythical Coen brothers.

HEREAFTER
- Not Clint s best
Drama film that centers on esoteric connections
between multinational characters centered around
a death after a tsunami in Asia. Directed by Clint Eastwood
but not one of his best films.

POTICHE
- Funny
French comedy featuring Catherine Deneuve
as a rich lady who has to step in to take
control of her husband s affairs.

ARRIETY
- Touching
Fantastic Japanese animation film about a tiny
family living on a country house.

ANOTHER YEAR
- Another film
A whole year of ordinary people as
seen from and old middle class British couple.
Their friends, family and their social ties.
Directed by Mike Leigh

INCEPTION
- Mega bucks meet sci fi
Sci fi thriller featuring Di Caprio
about a world built in parallel
structures of layers of consciousness.
A dream within a dream kind of thing.

BANGSY
- Smart
False documentary about the British
Graffiti star Mr Bangsy by Mr Bangsy
itself.

NOWHERE BOY
- Excellent
John Lennon s beginnings as a musician,
his complex relationship with his mother
and aunt as well as the beginning of the
Beatles are artfully portrayed in this film.

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
- Informing
Documentary film that covers the making
of an issue of Vogue magazine seen from
management's point of view.

FUNNY PEOPLE
- Sandler pulls it off
Comedy featuring Adam Sandler
about a very successful comedian who falls
sick and this situation changes his general
views about life and friendship.

MOON
- Wow
Sci fi movie about a man
stranded on a moon station.

TETRO
- Kind of boring
Black & white emotional drama directed by
Coppola. Great movie with excellent acting
and skillfully directed by maestro Coppola.

WHATEVER WORKS
- Not Woody s best
Light comedy directed by Woody Allen
about a dysfunctional southern family who
gradually move to NYC to find their true identities.

AWAY WE GO
- Lost but finding their way
Road movie directed by Sam Mendes about a
mixed race couple searching a place to get established.

LE CONCERT
- Very funny
Franco-russian film about a very talented soviet
orchestra conductor who manages a big
comeback in Paris after his career is shattered
by the Soviet regime.

VINCERE
- Historically entertaining
Italian film about the lover of facist
dictator Benito Mussolini and how
she and her son were mistreated by the Duce.

AN EDUCATION
- GOOD
British film about a sixteen year old girl
who falls in love with an older man who
is not what he seems to be. Her career and
her ambitions to go to Oxford are endangered
because of this torrid affair.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
- SO, SO
Directed by Tim Burton this Disney film about Alice going
back to Wonderland 10 years later as a young adult.
The plot of this film is nothing but an epic between good and evil,
the hero and the monster etc ....typical Hollywood stuff
with astonishing visual details by Burton. However, this film lacks
the spiritual profoundness of other Burton films.

PRECIOUS
- VERY GOOD
The story about a black teenager called Precious who was born
and raised in Harlem. She's bullied by her mother,
raped by her father, has eating disorders and two sons
by the age of sixteen. However, she manages to
surpass all obstacles in order start a life of her own.

INVUCTUS
- VERY GOOD
Film directed by Clint Eastwood about how Nelson
Mandela used rugby (a white man's sport) for
trying to weave interracial relations in South Africa
when he became president.

LEBANON
- GOOD
Israeli film about the invasion of Lebanon by
the Israeli army seen from inside a war tank that
goes astray. This film won the Berlin festival and
it is technically well achieved but lacks psychological force.
jan 2010

MOTHER
- VERY GOOD
Korean film directed by Bong Joong-ho
about the relationship between
a mother and his only son and what
happens when the son is sent to jail for
an alleged murder.

GAINSBOURG - VIE HEROIQUE
- TRÈS VERY FRENCHY FILM
By now films about famous musicians have become a genre, a business
model that guarantees a sure investment. The Doors, Piaf, Ray Charles etc...
However this French film about the famous French singer/composer
Serge Gainsbourg goes a little further in the sense that it elegantly
mixes the real with the imaginary. The biographical recital centers
mostly around his parents, his women, his music....
Outstanding performance on the part of Eric Elmosnino
as maestro Gainsbourg.

A SERIOUS MAN
- IMPECCABLE
Funny and tragic film about a Jewish university professor during the sixties
whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a series of
unexpected events. Nice for a change to have a film about Jewish
people that does not deal with the II world war.

MY WINNIPEG
- BIZARRE IN A GOOD WAY.
Bizarre documentary about the Canadian city of Winnipeg where Guy Maddin
the writer-director is originally from. Blend of memories, dreams
and hallucinations abound in this ghostly film where the real
interweaves with the imaginary and the director's personal history blends
with the history of the city.

LA TERRE DE LA FOLIE
- DIFFERENT
Independent documentary (if a movie financed by
French government can be called independent) made
by Luc Moullet who tries to trace the origins of madness through
various crimes committed in the Alpes Maritimes Region during the
last century.

IN THE LOOP
- FUNNY
British comedy that parodies politicians and the
way that decisions are made behind closed doors.
The movie revolves around a weak British minister
and how he is used in order to start a war.

AVATAR
- SEE IT IN A BIG THEATER
Special effects and amazing animation abound in this grandiose sci fi
saga à la Hollywood style about the encounter of humans
and extraterrestrial beings in a far away planet called Pandora.
This movie makes you think about the occupation of the American
continent by Europeans and how native Americans where
either killed or obliged to run from their habitat for the benefit
of the new European immigrant invaders.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
- TOUCHING
Directed by Spike Jonez this film is based on
an adaptation of a children's story written by Maurice
Sendak about a child who escapes from his house
and travels to a far away island which is inhabited by
weird monsters. Very emotional film but definitely
not a movie for kids but for adults with fluent imaginations.

THE ROAD
- OK
A father and his young son wonder around
in a chaotic post-apocalyptic world trying to save
themselves from hunger and violent thugs. Despite
actor Viggo Mortensen and good photography this film
doesn't manage to build a thick psychological atmosphere.

LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS
- ALMODOVAR REPEATS ALMODOVAR
Spanish film directed and produced by Pedro Almodovar
about a blind writer who falls in love with the lover of
a very rich and powerful businessman. Like most films by
this outstanding director this picture features a right mix of
sex, crime and intrigue.

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
- GOOD
Film that parodies II WW films. Directed by Quentin Tarantino this movie
features Brad Pitt as the commander of a brigade of Jews who hunt and kill
German soldiers during the II World War. Even if this film has lots of
nice scenes and details its definitely not Tarantino's best film. Excellent acting by
Cristoph Waltz the Austrian actor who plays the bad guy .

DISTRICT 9
- GOOD
South African sci-fi film about a huge spaceships
that parks itself above Johannesburg. Aliens get sent to
a compound until one of them eventually manages to escape
with the help of a human.

PONYO
- GREAT
Japanese romantic animation film by Miyasaki
about a magical sea creature that falls in love with
a little kid who is the son of a fisherman. Excellent !!!

TETRO
- GOOD
Black & White emotional drama directed by Coppola.
Great movie with excellent acting and skillfully
directed by maestro Coppola.

HURT LOCKER
- VERY GOOD
Well produced Iraq war movie, probably financed in part
by the US army, about a bomb squad in charge of
dismantling bombs in Iraq.

FUNNY PEOPLE
-GOOD
Comedy featuring Adam Sandler about a
very successful comedian who falls sick and how
this situation changes his general views about life
and friendship.

JULIE JULIA
- OK
Featuring Meryl Streep as Julia Child this
movie goes back and forward between Child's
attempt to publish her first book and a blogger in
NYC who decides to cook through the recipe book in a year.
Too bad that the actress who plays the blogger part is
not up to the task up facing to Streep's performance.

WHAT EVER WORKS
- GOOD
Light comedy directed by Woody Allen about a
dysfunctional family from the South of the U.S. who gradually
move to NYC to find their true identities.

AWAY WE GO
- GOOD
Road movie directed by Sam Mendes about
a mixed race couple searching a place to get established.

ROMAN DE GARE
- OK
French commercial suspense film about a very
successful female novelist who doesn't write her own
books and suddenly has to face with the real writer of her novels.
Crime, sex and suspense are the three axis of this light "sympa"
commercial film.

LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON
- EXCELLENT
Based on a true story about the last year of a magazine
director who is totally paralyzed after a stroke. Directed by visual artist
Julian Schanbel. It's nice to see some on the big screen some of the force
and bravado of contemporary visual artists.

MILK
- OK
Pro-gay politically oriented film featuring Sean Penn as a
gay activist based in San Francisco in the late seventies.
It is clear that this is a politically oriented film that tries,
behind a well crafted film, to impose a pro-homosexual opinion matrix
in times when gay marriage is a hot political issue in Anglo-America.

HE'S JUST NOT INTO YOU
- BAD
It is incredible that this film about women in search for
the love of their lives is so bad considering how many
big name Hollywood actors appear in the cast.

SMART PEOPLE
- BAD
This film about a middle age widower who
is an university professor who has not gotten
over the death of his long gone wife fails in its purpose
to be a "cool independent indyfilm ambiance" film.

THE PAINTED VEIL
- OK
Based on a novel by Sommerset Maughmam about a
British medical doctor who fights a cholera outbreak in a small
Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless
marriage to an unfaithful wife.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
- OK
Oscar winning Indian romantic film about the lives
of two brothers and a girl who are raised in the slums of India.

GRAN TORINO
- EXCELLENT
Directed and acted by Clint Eastwood who plays
a retired war veteran who eventually gets involved with his
Vietnamese neighbors.

DARK CITY
- EXCELLENT
Dark sci fi film directed by Alex Proyas and featuring William Hurt
as a policeman who investigates a series of murders in a futuristic
city where the sun never shines.

LES PLAGES DE AGNES
- GOOD
Autobiographical documentary of the life of well renowned French
director Agnes Varda. Her friends, her lovers, her films, her sons all
bundled together in an "très sympathique" manner.

Z32
- GOOD
Directed by Avi Mograbi this Israeli documentary seeks to uncover the
thoughts and feelings of an Israeli soldier who participated in an undercover
military operation that resulted in the death of Palestinian soldiers.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
- GOOD
A man whose life goes backward, he is born old and
dies young. Well crafted and acted commercial Hollywood film.

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
- EXCELLENT
Featuring Di Caprio, this film skillfully directed by
Sam Mendes dwells on the inhumanity of the lives of sensible
people condemned to lives in the "perfect" suburbs of Anglo-America.

CHANGELING
-EXCELLENT
Directed by Clint Eastwood and featuring Angelina Jolie
this movie is inspired in real events that occurred during the 20's in L.A.
when a single mother lost her young son and had to go against a corrupted
police department in order to find out what really happened to her son.

BURN AFTER READING
- OK
Comedy about a mix up that involves the CIA with regular
guys trying to make a fast buck through a blackmail scheme.
Probably no the best film directed by the Oscar winning Cohen brothers.
Features good acting on the part of George Clooney.

CARAMEL
- OK
Lebanese film about the daily lives and sentimental
imbroglios of five women who work as hairdressers in Lebanon.

QUATRE NUITS AVEC ANNA
- VERY GOOD
Polish film about a voyeur who
falls in love with a nurse that lives
in front of his house in a small
town in Poland.

TWO LOVERS
- GOOD
This movie features Joaquin Phoenix
as a bipolar Jew who lives in Brooklyn
with his family who owns a laundry shop.
He eventually gets involved with two girls,
a wacky neighbor and a conservative
Jewish girl who is the perfect match for him.

LA VIE MODERNE
- GOOD
The director follows the life of farmers
living deep in the country side of France.
The film seeks to catch their everyday
life, their fears and hopes. Good photography
by non other than Raymond Depardon.

HUNGER
- EXCELLENT
Movie directed by afro-British avant garde video artist Steve McQueen
about IRA's Bobby Sand's last days in prison until he dies in a hunger
strike against the brutal abuses of her majesty's security forces.
What's interesting about this film is the crossover of a visual artists
into the field of narrative cinema. Lets hope other visual
artists follow his example of exploring the boundaries between
visual arts and main stream cinema.

LOS BORGIA
- GOOD
Spanish- Italian Hollywood-like
production about the historic Borgia family
who intended to make an unified kingdom
in Italy while one of the family was
pope during the XV century.

ELSA Y FRED
- GOOD
Spanish-agrentinian romantic comedy about an
old couple that falls in love.
Great acting by China Zorilla.

TROPIC THUNDER
- GOOD
Comedy that parodies Hollywood war movies.
Great acting by Downey Jr and Tom Cruise.

COWBOY ANGEL
- GOOD
French road movie about a ten year old kid who goes to Spain
to find his dad with an adult friend who happens to be a Parisian hood.
They never find his dad so they continue on the road eventually
developing a solid friendship.

CITRONNIERS (ETZ LIMON)
- VERY GOOD
Film based on the true story of a Palestinian widow
who defends her small lemon tree plantation when an
Israeli minister moves next to her house and wants to have all
her lemon trees torn down for security reasons.

HAPPY GO LUCKY
- OK
Directed by Mike Leigh this British
film is about the everyday life of a woman
whose name is Poppy who is an immature
school teacher. Her character borders
on the brink of idiocy much like a
contemporary portrait of Voltaire's Candid.

GOMORRA
- VERY GOOD
Excellent Italian film that shows
how the mafia influences and infiltrates
all aspects of life in the south of Italy.

VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
- VERY GOOD
Woody Allen’s latest film about
two young Anglo-american women
who spend a summer vacation in
Barcelona and eventually get emotionally
involved with a pair of local Catalan artists.

LE SILENCE DE LORNA
- BAD
An Albanian woman marries a
Belgian who’s a drug addict
in order to get her working papers.
Things get more complicated when
she eventually gets involved with the
Russian mafia after her husband dies
of a heroin overdose.

BLACK BOOK
- GOOD
When this movie started I thought
“O my God, not another holocaust movie”.
However this film about a Jewish woman
trapped in Holland during the II WW
goes beyond usual stereotypes of the bad
German, the good Jewish, the savior allied
troops that plague most II WW movies.

WALL-E
- GOOD
Animation by Pixar about a android who survives the
destruction of the world due to excess pollution.

THE COUNTERFEITERS
- GOOD
Another holocaust movie to win an Oscar Award…
Wonder how they manage ??? The movie is about an
east European Jew who gets sent to a concentration
camp and manages to survive by making false pound
and dollar bills for the Germans.

ZONKA
- OK
Comedy featuring Adam Sandler
as an Israeli security agent who
quits his post in order to become
a hairdresser in NYC.

RESERVATION ROAD
- OK
An accidental death of a child in a highway brings
two men together in a bizarre way.

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
- OK
Tommy Lee Jones is the father of an U.S. soldier
that gets killed in a military base while on
leave from the Iraq war.

PAREJAS
- BAD
Two couples in NYC go through
a crisis that they eventually resolve.

THE BIG WHITE
- GOOD
Robin Williams is a travel agent who is on
the brink of bankruptcy and tries to scam an insurance
company by faking the death of his brother.

THE SAVAGES
- GOOD
Two sons have to take care of their ill
father who had left them many years
before.

LA MISMA LUNA
- VERY GOOD
Carlitos is a 9 year old Mexican boy who crosses
the border to find his mom
who has been working as an illegal immigrant
in L. A. for more than 4 years.
Entertaining and touching road movie.

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
- GOOD
Directed by Won Kar Wai and featuring
Jude Law and Natalie Portman this film
is half love story half road movie.

IRONMAN
- OK
Typical example of a Hollywood superhero film.
Good acting and special effects make this movie tolerable.

LA MOME
- VERY GOOD
Biographical French film about the tormented life of the
mythical French singer Edith Piaff.

ILS
- EXCELLENT
French terror film about a couple who
live in a solitary house in the woods in Rumania.
Lot of suspense without the unnecessary violence
of commercial terror films.

JUNO
- VERY GOOD -
Independent North American film about a
teenager who falls pregnant and who decides
to give her baby up for adoption.
March 08

THE BUCKET LIST
- GOOD
Decent commercial Hollywood movie featuring actors Jack Nicholson
and Morgan Freeman about two cancer patients who decide
to have the time of their lives before they die.
Good acting by two Hollywood maestros.

THE MISTRESS OF SPICES
- BAD
Terrible romantic movie full of clichés about an immigrant
Hindu woman who owns a spice shop and falls in love with a
with an architect.

SWEENY TODD
- EXCELLENT
Musical directed by Tim Burton featuring Johnny Depp.
Terror movie about a barber in London who seeks vengeance for wrongs
done to him and his family in the past.

THE DARJEELING LIMITED
- VERY GOOD
Road movie directed by Wes Anderson about
three bothers who go to India to look for
their mother who is at a monastery.
This trip allows them to bond..

IT'S A FREE WORLD
- EXCELLENT
Directed by Ken Loach. It's a free world takes an honest
look at the life of immigrant workers in the UK.

EASTERN PROMISES
- EXCELLENT
Directed by David Cronenberg this movie
about the Russian mafia in London is a classic
police thriller.

PARANOID PARK
- VERY GOOD
American suburban teenager has to deal with
the accidental death of a security guard.
Directed by Gus Van Sant.

THE BAND'S VISIT (LA VISITE DE LA FANFARE)
- VERY GOOD
Israeli film directed by Eran Kolirin about
an Egyptian police band arrived in Israel
for a concert. Great photography and film atmosphere.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES
- GOOD
Anglo-American suspense film featuring Brad Pitt that
recounts the final days of Jesse James seen from the
perspective of the person who shot him.
Nov 2007

KNOCKED UP
- OK
Light commercial comedy about a one night
stand couple who are surprised by an unexpected
pregnancy.

GONE BABY GONE
- ZIP
Hollywood thriller. The plot centers around
the investigation of kidnapped child.

PALIENDOPOLIS
- GOOD
Directed by Solondoz. This film deals with
teenagers, sex, pregnancy and abortion in the U.S .

MICHAEL CLAYTON
- OK
Hollywood thriller featuring George Clooney
about a lawyer in a big law firm that takes sides
against his big corporate client.

PERSEPOLIS
- VERY GOOD
Black and white animation that recounts the
life of a young Iranian woman. A nice mix of
personal history with that of contemporary Iran.
Oct 2007

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS
- VERY GOOD
Rumanian film that won Canne's Palm d'or of 2007.
The story of a student that tries to get an abortion
with help of her roommate.

FUR
- VERY GOOD
Imaginary biography of Aglo-american
photographer of the uncanny Diane Arbus.
Great acting on the part on Nicole Kidman
who plays the role of Arbus.

THE ILLUSIONIST
- GOOD
Commercial movie about a magician
at the end of the century who
lives in Vienna and falls in love
with the prince's fiancée.

RECUERDATE DE MI
-GOOD
Italian movie featuring Monica Belluci.
This movie traces the story of a middle class
family on the verge of disintegration.

IL CAIMANO
-VERY GOOD
Nani Moretti's very funny parody about
Italy's exotic president: Silvio Berlusconi.

THE PERFUME
-GOOD
Decent commercial version
of Suskind's novel about a
deranged perfume maker
in his search for the
perfect perfume.
Jul 2007

BELLE TOUJOURS
-GOOD
An homage to Buñuel by "el maestro" Oliveira.
Its Belle du Jour 40 years later "sans Bardot" biensur.

NO MAN'S LAND
-VERY GOOD
During the war in Sarajevo three soldiers
get caught in a no man's land. A parody of
war and of the UN's peacekeeping role.

JARHEAD
- GOOD
Directed by Sam Mendes. This film portrays
the first invasion of Irak as seen from a marine's point
of view. Great photography.

INLAND EMPIRE
-VERY GOOD
Another masterpiece from David Lynch. Haunting Film.
Beautifully shot. Spooky dreamy ambiance.

BY THE WAYS (with John Eggelestone)
-VERY GOOD
Documentary with and about the Anglo-american
photographer John Egglestone.

THE FOUNTAIN
- GOOD
Sci-fi picture that delves on the concept of
love and death as conceived by western philosophy
as opposed to other cultures.

HOLY BREAD
-VERY GOOD
Silent documentary about the food industry in Europe.
Great photography.

FIRST SNOW
- OK
Film noire about a salesman in the US who is told by a
palm reader that he will die within a few months.

THE LIVES OF OTHERS
- EXCELLENT
Oscar wining German film about a secret
service police in East Germany during the cold war
is who is assigned to spying on a famous novelist.