Utterly predictably French comedy about a young lawyer pretending to be married.
August 8, 2009
Modern Love (2009) **
A romantic comedy starring Stéphane Rousseau, Clotilde Courau and Bérénice Bejo.
Barbe bleue (2009) **
An impoverished young girl married a rich nobleman whose numerous wives all died under mysterious circumstances. Directed by Catherine Breillat.
Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009) **
A typical film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - a bizarre "Rube Goldberg" comedy closer in spirit to "Delicatessen" than to "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain".
Les Herbes folles (2009) **
Bizarre French film about a man becoming obsessed with a woman whose purse he has found.
Welcome (2009) *
A Kurdish refugee from Iraq is trying to cross the English Channel. Politically-correct piety masquerading as a movie.
La Journée de la jupe (2009) **
A teacher (Isabelle Adjani) takes her students hostage. A cross between "Entre les murs" and "The Negociator".
Villa Amalia (2009) *
A famous pianist decides to leave her boyfriend and her career, and start a new life elsewhere.
July 7, 2009
The Physics Of Water (2009) **
Basically a modern-day, Italian adaptation of "Hamlet", but told from the point of view of a very young boy.
Winter Silence (2009) *
Probably inspired by Carlos Reygadas' ''Stille licht'', but nowhere near as good. Set in a remote mountain hamlet, it's a story about Christian religious faith and pagan sexual desires.
General Nil (2009) **
The martyrdom of a Polish general - a hero of the resistence against the Nazis is arrested and executed by the Communists after the war.
Metastaze (2009) **
Average film about petty drug smugglers. A coproduction between Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia.
3 Idiots (2009) ***
General - zamach na Gibraltarze (2009) *
Historical drama about the last days of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces during World War II. According to history, he died in a plane crash in Gibraltar. But according to this film, he was murdered there on the orders of the British governor. It's basically a Polish "JFK", but the conspiracy theory presented isn't very convincing, as it seem to include the Soviets, the British and anti-Sikorski Poles - a very unlikely coalition. In fact, the only reason many Poles opposed Sikorski was because he was perceived as being insufficiently anti-Soviet. To suggest that those Polish opponents of Sikorski would conspire with the Soviets (and the British) to kill him, is completely illogical.
Drzazgi (2009) **
Tragic and romantic film about love, ambition and many other problems. Set in a drab mining town in southern Poland, it's a depressing, but well directed, social drama. Interesting narrative structure.
La Teta asustada (2009) *
Dreadful Peruvian film about a very strange girl who puts a potato inside her vagina to avoid being raped. Inexplicably, it won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Three Houses (2009) *
Georgian drama in three parts, set in three different centuries, connected by the same painting.
Caja negra (2009) **
Interesting Mexican film about the preparations for an assassination of a political leader.
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