Confidences trop intimes. I am yet to watch one French movie that deserved less than 10/10. Five stars all the way for this absolute gem of a film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363532/
Confidences trop intimes. I am yet to watch one French movie that deserved less than 10/10. Five stars all the way for this absolute gem of a film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363532/
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
I have never read the book, but I always wanted to. Then I saw that this movie was coming out. I tried to talk my mother into going with me, but she thinks it will be too depressing.Originally Posted by Niamh
So there goes my "date" for that!
I really would like to see it, though. I can't remember when the release date is/was here for it.
I read the first book last night and rushed out to buy the next three. We still have a two week wait here in Australia for the movie
Niamh, without giving the ending away, what's it about? Just curious; you say it had an impact so I take it it is serious but the name of it sounds whimsical.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Its about a little boy whose father moves his family to a new house in the country after being promoted. The father becomes the head of a concentration camp, and the boy bruno, who doesnt really understand what its all about, ends up befriending a little jewish boy on the other side of the fence. It shows the horrors of a concentration camp, and the innocence of youth. Striped pyjamas is the clothes the jews have been given by the germans to wear.
LW, go she it on your own.
Last edited by Niamh; 11-26-2008 at 07:11 AM.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Oh thanks, Niamh, this is a good description, and you didn't give too much away. Indeed they did wear the stripped pajamas. I have seen that in other Nazi themed films. Did you ever see "Pieces of the Lord" - this is about children during the occupation in a rural area of Poland. It is an amazing film and very touching. If you did not see it you just must. I even would like to purchase it.
I agree with you, Niamh....I would go alone, too. That probably is the only way I could get to view it in the theater nowdays. It seems my friends are never up to it or available and my mother is too old and not interested either.LW, go she it on your own.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"John Adams" from HBO
9/10
Amazing. Wonderful historical perspective. I've always liked Jefferson better than Adams, and this show has given me perspective from Adams' side of things. (I still like Jefferson better, and I think I have a crush on Abigail Adams) Whatever. :-)
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
I don't go to actual movie theaters, but I Netflix several times a week. The past few weeks have been full of disappointments, except for The Prestige, which I must have thrown on my queue in one of those oh-no-we're-down-to-two-films frenzies, because when it arrived I had no idea what it was or what it was about. Like I said, I don't get out much.
I have to say I was, well, mesmerized by it. A real surprise.
Someone should start a thread of top ten favorite movies. Or maybe someone already has.
Life is lived forward
and understood backward
Australia
4/5 it is a great movie and the best character in the movie is "Australia" I live here and it even took my breath away. Well worth watching
Joreads, I am dying to see this film. Thanks for writing something up on it. I kind of figured that Australia was the main character of the film after seeing a few trailers - it was shot so beautifully. It looks exciting, too.
I just happen to be reading a novel - a collaboration by D.H.Lawrence and Molly Skinner on Australia, entitled "The Boy In The Bush"; I would die to find the movie version which was done for the BBC years back. The descriptions in this novel of Western Australia in the late 1800's - turn of the century are stunning. Do you know the book? It has been a very interesting read. I am nearly done the book.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Acne
I give this movie a 10/10 not because it's a work of film merit, but just over the fact that it's a modern day honest to god b-movie (homage to all those lovely ones from the 50s and 60s about creatures taking over the Earth and such) and that it had DEVO and Alice Donut in it and other great music. It made me smile. Someone else appreciates all that kind of stuff!
So I'm biased. Sue me.
Besides, who wouldn't want to watch a movie about teenage pimple mutants?
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
This was my exact plan (to go once a week) when I realized how out of hand my Netflix list had become. But then I lost my job......LW, go she it on your own.
Generally when I go to the movies I am alone. People don't usually want to see what I want to see. But there are certain people (i.e. my mother) that if I can convince them to see a movie with me, they will pay.
I saw it at a budget theater just because I wanted to go see a movie. I really liked it. I agree that it was a nice surprise. I just wish that I'd read it as the book first, though, instead of seeing the movie. I think it would've made for a good read. But the twist is gone now that I have seen the movie. So I wouldn't react the same way to the book now.
Poor LW.
I'm probably going to go to the cinema on my own (first time ever) next week. All my friends have busy lives and well, dont have a BF anymore, and i can keep letting my folks take pitty on me so..
...dont know what to go see!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Hard Candy - 8/10.
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
That is the spirit, Niamh! We all have to be independent woman. I don't have a BF anymore either and many a time none of my friends could go to the Art Museum in Philadephia with me; I didn't want to waste my membership so I went by myself one year quite a number of time. You know what? I ended up having a grand time, almost better than when I went with my friends. I actually meet new people and talked to many a security guard hanging about in the museum halls - everyone was so friendly there. I even fortunately got to shake the hand of the museum curator/director of the Dali exhibit and tell him how much I appreciated his efforts. I came home feeling totally elated and happy that I had not let the notion of not having anyone to go with hold me back. I felt quite independent for a change. I must apply this to movies now. I have gone alone before. The trouble I have is I have to run out to use the little girls room and can't sit longer than an hour. For a really suspenseful film, I need a friend to fill me in on what happened when I was gone. But like I told Lady Wentworth, I guess I will have to go and see the film twice...run out at different times, that is all. You know how it is, right?
Well, if you two go next week have a really great time and enjoy your films.
Lady Wentworth - we used to have a threater like you mentioned one town over from my town - family owned and operated and original and so cheap. Recently the tore it downto build a Walgreens. A CVS is right across from the W's....this world is so crazy and it is just as Joni Mitchel wrote - "Put up a Parking Lot".....sad,
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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