Posts Tagged ‘romance’

Café de Flore (2011)

Café de Flore (2011)
Jean Marc Vallée’s Café de Flore is a powerful film about an extraordinary love triangle, that left me feeling inspired on a rainy Monday afternoon. The film tells in parallel the story of two families. Antoine Godin (Kevin Parent) is a DJ based in modern-day Montreal, struggling to come to terms...
May 7th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)

Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
The second and final part of this live action franchise is just as well-produced and satisfying as the first part (see review here). Its plot, however, is rather more complex. Instead of the weirder aliens, our game contestants are now fighting a tougher enemy, namely the human-disguised versions known...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Gantz (2010)

Gantz (2010)
It is being called the Japanese Harry Potter, and it is based on a best-selling sci-fi manga comic and a subsequent long anime TV show. But here we have the story in glorious live action. Weird aliens, black latex, wild action, interpersonal drama, fighting for dear life; Matrix-inspired spectacle and...
May 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Goodbye, First Love (2011)

Goodbye, First Love (2011)
Honest look at early passion Hansen-Løve’s first two films tackled subjects like family dissolution, addiction, and suicide. Her delicate, intelligent, naturally cinematic treatment of such challenging material has established her, at 30, as one of today’s best young French filmmakers....
April 30th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
Wow. If you are at all interested in mythologically based fantasy, with plenty of magic, demons, comedy, romance, kung fu and senses-shattering special effects of the highest magnitude, you quite simply gotta see this movie. It is cute and beautiful and full of grand spectacles. Just jaw-dropping. It...
April 29th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Poongsan (2011)

Poongsan (2011)
One of the most well-regarded South Korean directors is Kim Ki-duk, famous for such titles as The Isle (2000), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004) and 3-Iron (2004). When he doesn’t direct, he furnishes other directors with screenplays, and that is the case for...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
At this moment in time, I have to say that I’m pretty much in league with all of the other males being dragged along to the cinema to see these movies. I sit there thinking “why, why, why?” and then I plot ways for my good lady to make it up to me. In my [...]
April 26th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Invader (2011)

The Invader (2011)
The Belgian movie The Invader (L’envahisseur) is an interesting movie. Cleverly, it attains an amazing balance between being a clear and straightforward story about an illegal African immigrant in Brussels, and being a highly symbolical art movie of surprising depth. It begins as a small group of Africans...
April 25th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Hotel Lux (2011)

Hotel Lux (2011)
The ways in which the modern-day Germans deal with the atrocities committed by the Nazis in WWII can be complicated. Most Germans are very ashamed of what happened, and this is manifested in many different ways, ranging from refusal to talk about it and to searing soul-searching about its causes. But...
April 21st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Life As We Know It (2010)

Life As We Know It (2010)
Perhaps it’s the fact that she seems to get herself a bad reputation, perhaps it’s the fact that she’s not a very good actress, perhaps it’s the fact that her choice of movie roles, quite frankly, suck but there’s just something easy to dislike about Katherine Heigl. I can’t...
April 21st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
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