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Saw the Spanish film Broken Embraces this afternoon. It is another in a life time career of stunning films by the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. My favorite film of his and one I would put onto anyone's MUST SEE list is Talk to Her. I would put this up amongst his best and all of his films are exceptional. None of his films are facile. All deal with difficult subjects, some very disturbing and hard to watch. All very deep in the emotion of their characters and the characters' stories. Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) is no exception. This is another Do NOT Miss film from Almodovar.
Saw The Young Victoria in Reno today. On the way down 80 through the Truckee River canyon, there was a beautiful finely coloured rainbow set deep in the canyon with the snow covered canyon walls and mountains in the distance behind it. Beauitiful!
Viggo Mortensen plays the Man. In a post apocalyptic world , where there is little hope of mankind surviving and many have resorted to cannibalism to survive, the Man and his young son who is born on the eve of destruction, now about 10, are traveling to the coast in hopes of finding a better life. Not withstanding the the subject matter, this adaption of Cormac Mccarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, tells a tale of a love between a father and his son, and his son for the father. There are some very graphic grizzle scenes of inhumanity and pure animal survival, throughout
Sherlock Holmes is just another great venue and vehicle showcasing the amazing talent of Robert Downey Jr. Would someone just give this guy a best actor award please ! Maybe make a category just for him.
I rented a great flick from Netflix from Germany called Cherry Blossoms. It is about family, death of a loved one and how each of us best deals with the memory and grief of the loved one. In this film, set in rural Germany, Berlin and Japan, an older woman learns that her husband has a fatal disease that will kill him over the next months to a year or so. The doctors advise her to make his last months as happy as possible. She decides not to tell anyone, including him, of his condition.
Saw It's Complicated in Reno today. This movie stars Meryl Streep as a very successful divorced businesswoman (has a fabulous bakery/coffeeshop in Santa Barbara.) Alec Baldwin plays her ex-husband who now has a 32 year old wife who wants a child by him (she has a child from an affair she had earlier in the marriage). Steve Martin (looking very good) is the architecture designing an extension to her gorgeous house.
Clint Eastwood's latest film, Invictus, is very very good. Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela, South Africa's new President in 1994. The story is about the bottom of the barrel South African rugby team the Spring Boks. The team is revered by white Afrikaners and hated by the black South Africans who see it as a symbol of apartheid. Mandela sees it as a means to unite his country.
I watched the documentary The Cove last night. It is very very good. It does have some very disturbing scenes of dolphins being slaughtered and the water in the cove where the slaughter takes place turning bright red from all the blood. However this is only a small part of the film and appears near the end.
Conveniently off shore far enough to be outside the legal zone of England in the North Atlantic is a ship broadcasting Rock-n-Roll 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. The Rock Radio Ship has an uncanny resemblance the famous " Radio Caroline" that was hosted by a motley crew of characters for the DJ's. Stranded out at sea sometimes for months at a time, when the DJ's aren't on the air, they are talking about sex, hiding in there little rooms, eating, sunning on the deck, smoking weed, generally misbehaving in all sorts of ways.
