Movie Recomendations?

Millancad
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:07:07 +0000

In no particular order.


In the Mood for Love/Fa yeung nin wa
A (very) subdued love story set in 60s China. Beautifully and quietly acted. The final scene will undoubtedly stay with you. Very highly acclaimed. Beautiful score. Among Wong Kaw Wai’s best. Almost too perfect to explain. Art house international.
Nobody Knows/Dare mo shiranai
A mother leaves her children alone for increasingly long periods of time. Yuya Yagira’s portrayal of Akira is stunning, especially considering his being only 12, and received notice at Cannes. The other main actors are even younger and still great, especially Ayu Kitaura. A quiet and thoroughly depressing film. Art house international.
Paris, I love you/Paris, je t’aime
A collection of shorts, about Paris, of slightly varying, but overall, high quality. Inspired similar movies about cities the world over, including New York, but none achieved what the original did.
Suddenly, Last Summer
Classic film with Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Incredibly controversial in its time and still shocking. A Hitchcock-like thriller, though director Mankiewicz hardly lacks his own acclaim.
Ponette
Similar to Nobody Knows in that it features young actors and alienation. Here, there’s a 4 year old Victoire Thivisol who portrays her character amazingly. Thivisol hasn’t done much outside of this, but was also lovely in *Chocolat/i, years later. Art house international.
Les Trois Coleurs: Bleu
Part of one of the most highly acclaimed trilogies of all time, Bleu leaves its mark. Juliette Binoche, as usual, is pitch perfect. I would recommend the whole series, but I’ve unfortunately only seen this one so far. Art house international.
Before Sunset
A near-perfect sequel of the critic’s carling *Before Sunrise/i, Before Sunset returns to the characters ten years later. A subdued love story, a talking film. The script won an Oscar. Art house.
El Crimen del Padre Amaro/The Crime of Father Amaro
Both Devastating and brilliantly acted, Crimen features a young Gael Garcia Bernal in a role reminiscent of The Scarlet Letter’s Reverend Dimmesdale. A love story. Not sure of the genre. Romance? Drama? Not Art house.
*La Science des R