Julie Abrams in this story about separation, and declaration of feelings, maybe acceptance. Centred around the premise of being sidelined careerwise to a backwater with an incomprehensible to outsiders accent. The North South divide. This was the single most popular film in France last year. It gets more tolerable towards the end after starting [...]
Pour Elle
One reason to see this tightly shot thriller is Diane Kruger, but only if you are up for reading subtitles or know enough French to get by. Sustained tension throughout, she didn’t do it, can he get her out of there?
Antichrist
The first few minutes of the story are beautiful though tragic. Nothing quite prepares you for the cliterendectomy other than you had read about it before seeing the film. Von trier pays credit to Tarkovsky.
Terminator Salvation
Moon Bloodgood who appears as Blair Williams, a pilot no less in the civilian resistance, although with more clothes on, in a post nuclear holocaust skynet dominated world. This movie which I caught at the midweek midnight premiere in Hjørring felt like the equivalent of a day of very jarring rides at a funpark, and [...]
Lemon Tree
Hiam Abbas although not as she appears in the role of Selma Zidane in this French, German, Israeli production that I have missed twice this year and finally caught up with at a regular screening in Copenhagen. Story of a lemon grove on the border between the West Bank and Israel and the consquences for [...]
Synecdoche, New York
Catherine Keener in a film that starts in Schenectady and ends in a labyrinth. I agree with Roger Ebert who thinks you need to see this film twice to master it and a third time because you want to. I have seen it once. Characters played by characters of characters. And then the war scenes, [...]
