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…
Life or something like it (USA) Dir.: With Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns. Official site What would you do when you found out that you only had seven days left before you die? I would try to have as much sex as physically possible with Angelina Jolie. But unfortunately when Jolie in this scenario finds out…
Hombres Felices (ESP 2001, 93′). Dir.: Roberto Santiago. With Sergi Lopez. Official site Do men really think of sex every six seconds? Or is that highly exaggerated, and is 2 seconds closer to truth? Hombres Felices, or Happy Men, suggests that all the time is more likely, and thus reduces male happiness to a simple…
Hombres Felices (ESP 2001, 93′). Dir.: Roberto Santiago. With Sergi Lopez. Official site Do men really think of sex every six seconds? Or is that highly exaggerated, and is 2 seconds closer to truth? Hombres Felices, or Happy Men, suggests that all the time is more likely, and thus reduces male happiness to a simple…
