Archive for the ‘4 stars’ Category
I’m Not There

I’m Not There(2007)
Director:
Todd Haynes
Genre:
Biography / Drama / Music more
Plot Outline:
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.
**** out of 5, both if you like to know more about BD or if you want to see an amazing multime and crossed interpretation of great actors.
paprika

Paprika (2006)
Director:
Satoshi Kon
Genre:
Animation / Mystery / Sci-Fi more
Plot Outline:
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
**** out of 5,
Sukkar banat

Caramel(2007)
Director:
Nadine Labaki
Plot Outline:
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women going in Beirut.
**** out of 5, about love, from a very female point of view in an incredible mediterranean beyrouth.
Se, jie
2046

2046(2004)
Director:
Kar Wai Wong
Genre:
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi more
Plot Summary:
He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while…
**** out of 5
War Photographer

War Photographer (2001)
Director:
Christian Frei
Genre:
Documentary
Plot Outline:
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
**** out of 5. just to have a glimpse of the power of communication through the images.
Youth Without Youth

Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Genre:
Romance / Thriller more
Plot Outline:
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
**** out of 5.
Ratatouille

Ratatouille(2007)
Directors:
Brad Bird
Genre:
Animation / Comedy / Family more
Plot Outline:
Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant’s new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy’s family’s skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.
**** out of 5.
Three Seasons

Three Seasons (1999)
Director:
Tony Bui
Genre:
Drama more
Plot Summary:
An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child who’s a street vendor… more
Delightful Original movie
**** out of 5, “Please don’t make me feel, what l’m not capable of”
walk the line

Director: James Mangold
Genre: Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
Plot Outline: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
**** out of 5. Long live Johnny Cash, both you hate him or love him
