NL 2002 (117′)- Dir.: Pol de Pimentel. With Katja Schuurman, Egbert Jan Weeber. Official site Nam Kee is a well-known Chinese restaurant on the Zeedijk in the Amsterdam Red Light District. It is also the spot where Berry (Egbert Jan Weeber) and Thera (played by Katja Schuurman, and this month’s Dutch Playmate) eat their Oysters…
USA 2002 (90′) – Dir.: Jon Sherman. With Monica Potter, Gaël Garcia Bernal, Anthony LaPaglia. My rating: | Official site (in French) Sex and the City, Ally McBeal, Bridget Jones… What’s wrong with women in their late 20’s/early 30’s? In spite of millions of years of evolution, women still think that hapiness is a species…
Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras (Lost Girls, Greasy Hair) FRANCE 2002 (100′) – Dir.: Claude Duty. With Olivia Bonamy, Amira Casar, Marina Foïs, Charles Berling and Sergi López. | Official site | Another bunch of lost girls, that are deceived by Men. And when they feel really miserable they just start to… sing. Filles Perdues… is…
USA 2002 (116′)- Dir.: Sam Mendes. With Tom Hanks, Paul Newman | | Official site | Road to Perdition is a film about a father whose son brings him into trouble, and a son whose father changes his life forever. It is also a road movie about male friendship. But above all, it is a…
11’09″01 (FRANCE 2002, 134′) Dir.: Amos Gitaï, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Danis Tanovich and others. | My rating: | Official site | Eleven different directors, from eleven different parts of the world, give their own, very personal vision on September 11, 2001. An eclectic company of Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran), Claude…
The Importance of Being Earnest (FR/UK/USA 97′) Dir.: Oliver Parker With: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Reese Witherspoon | My rating: | Official Site | Two British gentlemen divide their time between the high life in the city and the calm of the countryside. There is only one problem: they both use the name…
L’adversaire FR 2002 (120′)- Dir.: Nicole Garcia. With Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet. My rating | Official site | In 1993, France was shocked by a crime that nobody understood: A man killed his wife, his two children and both his parents; he tried to commit suicide. He had been lying for 18 years…
L’adversaire FR 2002 (120′)- Dir.: Nicole Garcia. With Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet. My rating | Official site | In 1993 France was shocked by a crime nobody understood: A man killed his wife, his two children and both his parents; he tried to commit suicide. He had been lying for 18 years to…
The dead of some people sometimes also means the end of an era. This is without a doubt the case of Alastair Gordon, a.k.a. the 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, who passed away two weeks ago. He was an extraordinary good old chap, who liked wine, women, art and railways. He was a cheerful…
Katie Carr thinks she is a good person because she is a doctor, and is sometimes able to make ill people better. She doesn’t really care How to be Good, she knows she is. She is a GP. She cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. At…
