This weekend I got to watch three really good movies. And non of them was from the US! (and as always, don’t watch the trailers if you intend on watching the actual movie)
On Friday I went hunting for Emma – the one with Gwyneth Paltrow. But unfortunately the people at Makuuni don’t consider this a classic (not so hard to understand since Sea Biscuit could be found on every shelf…). But this was quite lucky as I got to rent the French movie Micmacs instead.
Storyline: A man gets shot by accident and looses his apartment, job and clothes in the process. Already dealing with the death of his father, killed at work when disarming a landmine, he now faces a life on the streets. This is the final straw, and with the bullet still lodged in his brain he decides to bring down the weapons industry who caused him all this pain.
Even though the subject seems somewhat dark the movie is all but. The characters that the man meets and who become his companions in his quest, are so sweet. I only wish I knew more French as the dialogue would be much better in the original language. But all in all, a very lovely movie.
On Saturday I had the privilege to go to Henrica’s and watch a German movie, The Lives of Others. Henrica lives with a real movie buff and I found all my favourites in her shelfs. So it was a hard pick between Leon, Kill Bill I and the previously mentioned. But I’m so happy that we got to watch that particular movie – the only one I hadn’t already seen.
Storyline: East Germany, one of Stasi’s most devoted men gets a new mission. To spy on a famous play-writer and his actress girlfriend. The mission is to bring the man down, and it shouldn’t be that hard since you’ll always find something if you look hard enough. But then he starts to have doubts.
A story about being a good man. Truly beautiful, and scary.
On Sunday I remembered that I had the movie Wild Target on my computer. This is a British one.
Storyline: An assassin is hired to kill a young girl, a born thief who gets everything for free; clothes, food and men. But when he hesitates someone else tries to beat him to it and he finds himself protecting his own target.
Funny, quirky and a bit fingers in throat gammal gubbe sjuka (but you can live with that).
Idathé 