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Whisper of Sin (Nuodemes uzkalbejimas)

L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)

"Summer Hours" is a movie about life just like life is. Such as we see in "L´eau froide", his first movie, Olivier Assayas offer us great and naturalistic interpretations/characters placed in simple stories without almost any action. As realistic as it is possible.

Paris Je T'aime

So finally, the city that has inspired so much love gets an omnidus movie that speeks about family, race, religion, crime, love, death, even angels and vampires -- all can be found in this ultimately intertwining narrative. That means this film offers something for every one and provides a different look at the City of Lights a city that never sleep!!! There?s something magical about the small things to be discovered in this big city. So many people so many stories in such a small space, something unexpected and joyful is bound to cross your path one day. All these things makes this movie such a breath of fresh air an European air. Paris Je T'aime is a great cinematographic experience. Is a collection of short films set in Paris and directed by such goods directors as the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas. Also the all-star ensemble cast includes international stars such as Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Elijah Wood, Nick Nolte, Bob Hoskins, Juliette Binoche, Emily Mortimer, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Rufus Sewell, Barbet Schroeder, Ludivine Sagnier, Gena Rowlands, Miranda Richardson and Steve Buscemi. Each of the 18 short film shows Paris in a different light, but all the vignettes aim to celebrate the most famous and cosmopolitan city in France. Each director tells the story of an unusual encounter in one of the city's neighborhoods, portraying aspects of the city rarely seen in feature films. Racial tensions stand next to paranoid visions of the city seen from the perspective of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's bourgeois environs. An American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop sees and desires another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. A couple tries to add spice to their sex life. Best moments in this movie for me: the story directed by South African writer-director Oliver SchmitzA "Nigerian man (Seydou Boro), dying from a stab wound in the Place des fêtes asks a woman paramedic
(Aïssa Maïga) for a cup of coffee. It is then revealed that he had fallen in love at first sight with her some time previously" and also the story directed by German writer-director Tom Tykwer. After mistakenly believing that his girlfriend, a struggling actress (Natalie Portman), has broken up with him, a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) reflects on the growth and seeming decline of their relationship. The result is that after two hours one gets the sense of having seen a panorama of human experience, of having witnessed a moment of time in all its true fullness. A memorable movie experience like no other. (Thank you Logan for this movie).

The Secret Life of Bees

Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)

Love me if you dare is a storng and also a charming and sometimes bittersweet tale about a pair of life-long friends, Julien and Sophie. I've never seen anything quite like this film that melds the magic of childhood memories with the pain of unrequited love. The director armed with a colorful and daring visual palette that often veers into fantasy, spins a touching movie tale about the childhood friends who can't connect as lovers. The enduring image is a toy carousel box, which is first exchanged between Julien (Guillaume Canet) and Sophie (Marion Cotillard) as children. So begins the game - the friend who accepts the box must also perform a dare. Although the boy and girl always remain close, their game stands in the way of romantic involvement but the colors getting darker as the characters age
and their games grow As competitors, neither wants to give in and acknowledge they're in love. Instead, the energy is channeled into ever-more dastardly deeds. Eventually they start to play rough, and the results are personally devastating for both. Julien plays a particularly cruel trick on Sophie at a restaurant, and she strikes back by setting him up for arrest.
Julien's response is particularly clever, and perhaps the meanest thing he does in the movie. Many romance films lose momentum near the end, when the characters are forced into predictable patterns. But the finest moments of Love Me if You Dare occur in the final 20 minutes, when Julien and Sophie finally grapple with the idea of losing each other forever. There's nothing like the joy of watching a movie like this It gaves me a lot sweet emotions and a lesson also "don't play games" it could be distroyed for your life but I don't think that I'm going to follow it..............

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Inglourious Basterds

of course its great,its tarantino.next.

Atonement

Atonement is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright, and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton...
I don't ever seeing a movie that did to me what Atonement did. Hours after the end of it remains in my mind Cecilia and Romby the tragic couple of this story and I wonder why??? Can one ever atone for a sin that destroyed somebody?s life? That's my questioning and I can't give a satisfying answer......The movie strarts slowly in the endlessly photogenic, thematically pregnant interwar period and setting in an old British country estate where trim dinner jackets and shimmering silk dresses are worn, cigarettes are smoked with sharp inhalations that create perfect concavities of cheekbone; and the air is thick with class tension and sexual anxiety. Heavy clouds are gathering on the geopolitical horizon, which lends a special poignancy to the domestic comings and goings. This charged, hardly unfamiliar atmosphere provides, in the first section of the film, some decent, suspenseful fun, a rush of incident and implication. Boxy cars rolling up the drive; whispers of scandal and family secrets; coitus interruptus in the library, all set to the implacable rhythm of typewriter keys. And after everything are been changed by One piece of paper with some words some strainge thoughts and the terror of the 2nd World War. The brightness give place to the sepia-toned war scenes. The tragic couple took seperated from war and faith... and one person must be paid for the sorrow that brings to Cecilia and Roby lives!!!
One of the best romances I've seen. Everything about this movie was brilliant. It was an outstanding film with amazing performances,
excellent music and beautiful photography. It is extremely well made and it kind of makes you cry, specially in the end............

Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying)

Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this morning. They see some cranes in the sky, stay and look at them... enjoing the moment and they talk about a rendezvous at the bank of the river. But destiny sometimes is cruel and the 2nd World War begins in Moscow. Boris hasn't got time to speak with Veronica. He has to go to the war and they do not have the chance to say goodbye to each other!!! However, Veronika does not forget Boris, and keeps waiting for him ...What a tragic compination War - Love... I realy fell entranced by the beaty of this movie. Like most great films, is at its heart a love story but not only. Two scenes are still remaning in my mind and I can't forget them!!! A death of a young soldier, an endless moment into a swirling visualization of his last thoughts and spinning trees above with a desperate race up a flight of stairs. In the other Mark confesses his love for Veronika in the midst of a massive air raid, with Verokina's repeatedly slapping his face and screaming "Nyet!" rhythmically syncopated with the dropping of the bombs. That she would turn around in the very next scene and marry him is a bit hard to swallow. Beatiful performance by Samoilova. Her face grounds the story as she reacts to a diatribe against faithless women, and as she falls into despair over whether Boris will ever return. Though Kalatozov goes to the battleground for one key segment of the film, his interest lies mostly with those left behind and damaged by war indirectly. The emotional force of Samoilova?s acting makes that pain as real as a gunshot. The Cranes Are Flying ranks among the best war movies ever made.

Cashback

Frozen time kiss "Cashback is the name of two films directed by Sean Ellis: a 2004 short film and a 2006 feature film. The short film won 14 awards at international film festivals and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film."
After a long time I saw last nigth a new movie (2006). Realy strainge for me to leave behind the past(old movies that I realy love) But I couldn;t reasisted after I saw the trailer that sent me a friend of mine(logan) So my first thought after I saw the movie was "how can the critics has been writting bad critics for a movie like this" My heart was overflowed with sentiments and I havend stopped thinking about it!!! I haven't seen a film like that since a long time... It was like to opened infrond of my eyes a secret window throught the males soul and brain (realy have males thoughts like that about females)?. A very romantic portrait of a young artist as he ponders love, beauty and living in the moment. Ben discovers his ability to stop time, a phenomenon that gives him a new appreciation for the beauty around him. He wanders the aisles of the store undressing the drop-dead gorgeous women around him then sketches their portraits. I think to have the power to capture the momments to pause the time and enjoy all that small things you throw away the beauty araoud you is realy fantastic. Slickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish, "Cashback" is a conventional romantic comedy that plays unconventional games with time and memory. Ben's philosophical voiceover plays under nearly every minute of "Cashback" yet never becomes smothering. In the end, pic's ideas about art and love aren't much more than skin-deep, and third act goes through some unnecessary convolutions. Final shot, however, is a dazzler. With immeasurable assistance from editors Scott Thomas and Carlos Domeque, Ellis is clearly having tremendous fun behind the camera, slowing down, speeding up and freezing the frame to highly entertaining effect. Flashbacks to Ben's childhood are introduced via seamless transitions that enhance pic's themes about the mutability of time.

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The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared was made into a 1959 film starring Peter Sellers . Other cast members included: William Hartnell (as Will Buckley), David Kossoff (as Professor Alfred Kokintz), Leo McKern (as Benter, the Opposition Leader), MacDonald Parke (as General Snippet), and Austin Willis (as the United States Secretary of Defense). The tiny (3 miles by 5 miles) European Duchy of Grand Fenwick, nestled in the Alps between Switzerland and France, proudly retains a pre-industrial economy, dependent almost entirely on making Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. The mouse of the title is really Peter Sellers, and what roared was Sellers' uniquely anarchic comic talents: he plays three roles, demonstrating his breathtaking acting range, in this somewhat dated but dead-on political satire. In the main one, he is the leader of a tiny country called Grand Fenwick that declares war on the United States in order to receive post-war aid that would rescue it from bankruptcy. In 1959, with Europe still nursing its wounds from World War II and envying the United States' prosperity, the topic was a winning one for both British and American audiences. Based on a novel by Leonard Wibberley, the archly preposterous script supposes that 20 soldiers invade New York clad in chain-mail armor. Sellers is the leader of the invading force as well as the prime minister, but his most hilarious turn involves cross-dressing as the grand duchess. The Mouse That Roared is indispensible for Sellers fans. A film even hilarious today. Politics haven't changed!!! One of my "little small diamonds" perfect for weekend.

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