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    Life Is Beautiful (1997)

    Well worthy of its Best Picture Oscar (and the others).

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    Not to be confused with the 2019 French film, Belle Époque is a 1992 Spanish comedy-drama film.
    It is a feel good movie, plain and simple. I reckon it will leave you smiling (and wouldn't you love to be our male protagonist?).
    Nicely shot, features a young Penelope Cruz too. It just makes you feel good, with no major pretensions. 8.5/10


    Not sure if you're into Spanish Cinema, but this is like the antidote to Pedro Almovodar. Won the Oscar for best foreign film too.
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    The Road Home... From the book, Rembrance by Bao Shi.
    Chinese movie about the simple life of a country teacher in a poor remote chinese village. A great story good music and some beautiful scenery. Starring one of my favourite actresses when she was young Zhang Zhiyi.

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    ^ Excellent movie.

    I don't like all of Pedro Almodovar's films by any stretch, but his last one kept me watching.



    I'm not sure why anyone would need an 'antidote' to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Starring one of my favourite actresses when she was young Zhang Zhiyi.
    Excellent actress. I saw her, not quite met her, in Macau. She was smaller than I had expected and didn't stand out from the crowd at all, until the cameras appeared and then she suddenly lit up the room. Natural star.

    I saw Shu Qi in similar circumstances and she was the same. A very pleasant lady and she can just switch on a captivating smile for the crowds and of course for the cameras.

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    A danish film got a Bafta this evening.

    Brits do like films about drinking

    'Another Round'

    Druk

    I hear it's worth a look

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    ...The Life Ahead starring 86 year-old Sophia Loren as an Italian Holocaust survivor...while her acting skills (such as they are) haven't been totally dulled over time, the famous bosoms have fallen to new lows...still a pleasure to see her in action...recommended (Netflix)...

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    I dont watch many movies, and even less foreign language ones but many years ago I watched a German WW2 movie in German that portrayed as the complex persons that they were rather than the caricatures that Hollywood portrays them as.
    The title of the movie was Das Boot
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    Watch this sequence from "Soy Cuba" (I am Cuba). That's all. Tremendous considering it was filmed in 1964.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    The artist's wife is played by Jane Birkin and when I googled her I was reminded of the French classic Manon De Source in which she stars

    So tonight I watched part 1 Jean De Florette which I have not seen in over 30 years
    I got it mixed up.

    It was not the artist's wife who is in Manon Des Source, it is the artist's muse; the one who spent most of La Belle Noiseusse in the buff

    She gets her kit of in Manon Des Source too. That was not the only detail I had forgotten since the last viewing 30+ years ago

    I had forgotten the whole story which was a bonus as the 2 films together create a tragedy of greco-shakesperean proportions.

    I look forward to my dotardage when I can re-enjoy all my favourite films year after year without remembering the story details


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    ^ jean de florette and manon des sources - great movies. beautiful scenery and girls, epic bastardry in the village. Depardieu montand and auteil - all good.
    Thx for the reminder will have to revisit them again soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Another Round (Druk)
    Some raw subject material handled delicately in another masterful performance from Mads Mikkelsen in The Hunt (Jagten) from 2012



    I don't think it quite belongs in my Christmas Movie thread despite one of the most powerful scenes taking place at Midnight Mass with a beautiful scandi carol for accompaniment

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    Drive My Car

    I enjoyed this ruminative moody Japanese art house piece.

    It is 3 hours long and I was planning on watching it in 2 goes but it has the curious effect of keeping you wanting to see what happens next with its mercurial story based on a Murakami short story (it must have been a long short story).

    Many of the scenes are hypnotising and elevating in a way that so much cinema is not these days. The closing scene of the movie is also the closing scene of a stage production of Uncle Vanya and is especially good.

    The story is framed against a Hiroshima production of the Chekhov play.

    It would probably add something if you are familiar with the play. Luckily I had watched Woody Allen's straight movie September recently which is loosely based on it so I had already boned up on Uncle V



    I once drove an identical brand new Saab 900 in exactly the same colour from Stavanger to Brugge via the Kristiansand ferry on a work assignment

    That was a quantum leap in motoring for me as up until then I had driven nothing more powerful than a Fiat 127 and a VW Beetle

    A week after I got to Brugge one of my colleagues totalled it on an icy road

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    "roma" if it has not been recommended already.


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    Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

    Director Wolfgang Becker

    This tragicomedy from director Wolfgang Becker became a smash hit earlier this century, both in Germany and in the English-speaking world. It’s the inspired story of a young man (played by Daniel Brühl in his breakthrough role) living in East Berlin whose socialist mother suffers a heart attack and slips into a coma. While she’s in an unconscious state, political events gather speed: the Berlin Wall is knocked down, the East German government is dismantled and capitalism invades from the west. Told to avoid any stress for his mum when she wakes up, Alex decides to conceal the big news. He and his sister pretend that nothing has happened, starting a bizarre effort to keep the GDR alive within the four walls of their apartment – TV news and food included.
    While touching on important political and social issues, Becker constructs an elaborate and funny charade around the fall of socialism, brilliantly combining a satire of the communist state with the story of a boy’s love for his mother.
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