dvds:
L'amour dure trois ans
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The Savages
Indepedant-american movie. A brother and a sister in their middle-age crisis about 'writing' and 'couple issues' have to take care of their father during his last days : bring him in a nursing house, and see him dying in front of their eyes. The movie mixes all of this story with the relation between the two siblings, the way they deal with the very 'materialistic' problems of this father they do not appreciate that much. Good scenes and actors. The brother is both wiser but much more lost than his sister, i like his character.
Kramer vs Kramer
What a classic. Dustin Hoffman is a legend in this role of a absent-father becoming (against his will) better than his fleeing wife for breeding their child through time.
Tout est pardonné
I watch this movie again. First of the young director Mia Hansen-Love. The second time is still a quite strong experience. Especially the moments of the third part when the young Pamela learn 'in live' about her parents, her father, and finally herself.
The best of youth
Almost six hours. The first part has some weakness, characters aren't sophisticated enough and all. But the second half of the movie - thanks to the long introduction and the long term relations developed since the beginning - is much better and reach a very good state of drama.
Annie Hall
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The Awful Truth - McCarey
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The Color Wheel -
Masterpiece of the young and cynical indie-cinema in the US.
My last five girlfriends -
Inspired by Alain de Botton's book 'Essays in Love'. Not that good. Some unbearable tools to put the 'classics questions of love' in an original way (the life as a theme park: girls are different kind of amusement-devices; or a girl introduce herself like in a ghost train). The result is rarely innovating. And very quickly boring.
L'Art d'aimer - Emanuel Mouret
Not that bad.
Versailles - Chantier
Masterpiece of contemporary french cinema. Of course.
Le pèe de mes enfants - Mia Hansen-Love
Not that bad. As usual with Hansen-Love, she breaks the movie in two totally different parts. By chance, the two of them are 1) interesting more as a documentary about the job of 'movie producer' and then 2) really emotional (actually 'classically' emotional) with the mourning of the father by the family -and especially this talented young curly actress who cary all the end on her shoulder
Friends with benefits -
Pointless.
Accepted -
About those students building a fake college in the US after having been rejected from all the others at the end of high-school. Terrible.
Cyrus -
Two characters get along and start seeing each other. Then the guy meet his girl's 21 years old son. And that's a disaster, the son is to close to his mother and can't accept this new guy in his life. At the end, everything is fine. Awful.