Monster

Love story. I was really moved. My housemate was sitting opposite me making sarcastic remarks about the film as i looked at him really seriously and said "this moves me as a woman ok?!" and continued watching the film. Young lost lesbian girl running away from her family and life seeks to connect with someone and finds it. An odd couple and a story that just gets more and more complicated. But the more the film progresses the more drawn into the story i get. By the end i'm heartbroken and sad for the characters. This movie affected me on all levels. It will stay in my mind for some time i'm sure. Actually i'm probably going to watch it again quite soon. All you need is love?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0340855/

The Spirit Of The Beehive

Peaceful is the word that comes to mind. The film seems to be set in a place where time stands still. The images move the story forward, not the dialogue. The two sisters and their fantasies take over the film and their parents become mere background characters who are observing and not understanding their children. Who is the mother writing letters to? The lack of dialogue in the film is the thing that fascinates me the most. The silence and endless countryside where the children run across fields into their imagination. The part that Frankenstein plays in the film is odd and amusing - american horror movies just don't seem to fit into this peaceful country town in Spain. The youngest of the sisters - Ana is wide eyed and so pretty. Her older sister is cute and reminds me of someone but i'm not sure who. This film is the closest i think i've come to feeling what i felt as a child - it made me miss the overwhelming impact imagination and fantasy had on life. I guess that's a luxury you can't afford as an adult. But i wish i could.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/

Shortbus

Too much sex in the beginning of the film. Just TOO much. I had to look away. I'm too much of a romantic for that stuff... The lead character is called Sofia and she's never had an orgasm. She's beautiful and has, it seems, payed for all the great stuff in hers and her husband's apartment. Her husband doesn't seem very compatible with her, and they just look wrong together to me. The movie makes him seem like a sex machine who doesn't earn as much money as Sofia and feels bad about it. The voyeuristic club that Sofia's orgasm-free life leads her to is colourful, vibrant and full of life (and sex). Sofia's pink lips and swirling black hair almost made me long to be chinese. The colours of the film were really amazing, and the shots were also many times really interesting. In the middle of the movie i was really into it all, i thought it was really great but then it lost more and more of its magic. The beginning was just too much, and then end was too little - but the middle was awsome. The lonely sex worker with her rich bastard teenage (?) client in a leach is the best character in the movie - she totally blew me away. I want to see a film just about her. Suicidal gay lovers with a neighbour stalker takes up a little too much time in the film for my liking. The gay male model's accent reminds me of Americans i've met. Masturbation on a fantasy (?) bench by the sea. Well...the movie did have too much full on sex in it. It just seemed like the director wanted to break new ground with sex as his weapon. But to me sex is about love.

Highlight: JD Samson :)

Movie's website (really cool design):
http://www.shortbusthemovie.com/

Wristcutters: A Love Story

I was late to the cinema so i missed the first few minutes of the film. Watching a comedy love story about suicide probably isn't what i should be doing right now... Sadly i wasn't insightful enough to realize that when i bought the movie ticket earlier today. So all these people are dead and they're in the afterlife. They've all killed themselves (or so it seems). Tom Waits is probably the highlight of the film. The russian guy is pretty great too. Maybe i missed the whole point since i missed the first minutes of the film, but towards the end of the film it just didn't feel complete to me.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0477139/

House of Sand and Fog

Foggy nights with Jennifer Connelly sleeping in her car outside the house her father left her. 30 years of morgage payments. The footage of her on the pier looking at the dead bird floating in the sea & and of her spinning around in the pastel coloured afternoon. The love affair leading to a cabin in the woods. How could Kathy's husband ever have left her? I doubt i've ever seen such a beautiful house cleaner. It feels real and not like a movie. I feel scared of loosing everything just like Kathy has. I want to cry when she cries. My heart aches in my chest when she puts the gun against her head and cries loudly. Her lover got too involved and the innocent teenage boy dies. A policeman in jail. Kathy ends up not wanting what she faughts so hard to get back. She denies that it's hers anymore. What did she loose and what did she want? Thrown out of cheap motels without mercy. Why did he leave his gun in the trunk of her car? I wonder where she bought that white tunic like top. In awe of the colours, the tones of Kathy's voice. The lack of information about her past. Her family never showing up. When she gets thrown out of her house and tells the police that "there's no one" she can call. No friends to stay with, no family around to help. No one. She's being thrown out of her house by mistake. Not opening the mail for months in California. Such painful peace in that house. A beautiful foreign wife and all that tea. I wish the husband wasn't so strict with her. I wish he let her know what was happpening. Clues of a foreign land and all that fancy furniture. Saving money for the son's university education. But most of all....Jennifer Connelly on the pier. Wow.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/

A friend once suggested i'd make a movie blog about films i'd seen.
And tonight i saw a film that made me realize that a movie blog would be a good idea. So thank you my dearest friend for the suggestion.