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Chocolat

Advantages: Excellent acting, unusual
Disadvantages: Some may find it very dull

Chocolat was a really bizzare movie, quite simply. The basic plot is as follows; a woman and her young daughter move in to a small, highly religious French town. She opens up a small chocolate shop there, much to the outrage of the church goes as she has decided to do so during Lent. Though people are curious about her and her chocolate, the people are wary of trying any out of fear of what the rest of the town will think. The woman, Vianne, eventually ...
...who is being beaten by her husband. Vianne manages to convince Josephine to leave him, and she runs away to live in Vianne's house and help her make her chocolate. Throughout the movie various other characters find help from Vianne, much to the outrage of the church. What finally tips them over the edge is the arrival of a group of Irish travellers. The church - and therefore the rest of the town - are determined to get rid of the travellers, and ...

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Review of Chocolat (DVD)

Three Colour:Blue- A brave tale.

Advantages: Concept.beautiful acting and direction
Disadvantages: A tad slow.Subject might not interest many.

...symbolizing the colours of france.All three films were released in a short span of two years(1993-94) and focusses on different attributes of life. Julie(Juliette Binoche) loses her world famous composer husband and her child in a traffic accident and decides to live a rather independent life of her own. To make things easier for herself,she decides to sell off all the previous belongings and moving to a new neighbourhood where she can channel all ...
...to keep the tragedy out of her life and tries to take a new look at life. Soon Julie realises she needs to work on one of her husband's last work as a musician and on her journey comes to know new things about him that she never knew. Its a film which has a rather strong impact visually when you watch it.The director sets the story beautifully and the whole ambience works for the film.I loved how he kept the colour blue throughout the film;it was ...

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Review of Three Colours Blue (DVD)

The unbearable lightness of being, bright moments and boredom

Advantages: beautiful pictures, outstanding acts, good actors, nice music
Disadvantages: boring, boring, boring

My story about the movie A very good friend of mine suggested me to see this movie, she said it was amazing. I promised her to give it a go but for the next 2-3 years I always postponed it and didn’t even bother to purchase a copy. The reason for that was mainly the age of the movie and the fact I couldn’t find it in every supermarket on the “3 for the price of 2” shelves. Finally about 6 months ago I looked it up on amazon.com and placed my order. ...
...Chaplin hat. I truly loved the presentation, but after reading the summary on the bottom of the box I suspected that it was a tragic, revolution-movie, which I didn’t fancy in that very moment, so I placed it on my shelf for another 3 months. On a day I was browsing on imdb when I bumped into the movie again and seeing they gave it the score 7.4 and trusting their evaluation I decided to watch it finally. The opening picture didn’t convince me about ...

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Review of The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (DVD)

Don't Bother Breaking In

Advantages: Some solid perfomances.
Disadvantages: Stodgy writing, stolid direction and unlikeable characters.

A series of break-ins at his architecture firm’s new offices in King’s Cross bring Will into contact with fifteen year-old Miro. Will’s investigations lead to him getting involved with boy’s mother Amira, a Bosnian ex-pat who works as a tailor. Meanwhile his home life is no picnic; his wife is prone to depression and her daughter has a compulsive order that has so far defied diagnosis. “Breaking and Entering” is Anthony Minghella’s third collaboration ...
...yet. It wants to be an insightful and thought-provoking contemporary drama. But instead it turns out a stodgy and self-indulgent bout of upper middle class navel-gazing. It looks slick enough most of the time, with Minghella revelling in the contrast between Will’s glossy Kensington house and the insalubrious environs of his new offices. But there are times when shots swim out of focus. The parkour that opens the movie is decent enough; competently ...

afy9mab 01.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Breaking And Entering (DVD)

Love will tear us apart

Advantages: Touching love story, beautiful desert scenery, well acted
Disadvantages: Very sad, jumps around a bit, perhaps a thinking persons film

...then look no further than The English Patient. I bought the English Patient on DVD at Sainsbury's a few weeks ago. I had just finished the book and thought I'd quite like to see what the film was like. I purchased it in a 3 for £30 deal. The book I read because it's on my Booker Prize winners list that I'm slowly working my way through this year. I have to be honest, although I liked the idea of it, I didn't enjoy it very much and had to force myself ...
...would like to re-read the book just to see how the director Anthony Minghella managed to create such a masterpiece from the same story I found dull on the page. Overview of the story *********************** If you have never heard of The English Patient then the following should help. The story is set at the end of the Second World War, in Italy, and for the most part moves between 1944 and up to two years before hand. The main character is a ...

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Review of The English Patient (Special Edition) (DVD)