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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
An example of quality comedy
Two days ago, we've had the chance to watch Wes Anderson's latest:THE DARJEELING LIMITED. We really had a wonderful moment. This movie is really an amazing comedy, be careful, it's not a "silly" comedy. It's witty and draws most of its power from great Character writing. Once again we discover that to have a great film you need really interesting characters, and that's getting more scarce from the films I've seen recently. The three brothers of "The Darjeeling Limited" are so touching, humorous and cool that you immediately feel great in their company. The cast is amazing and we also have an Adrian Brody in one of his best roles. Besides from the characters, Robert D. Yeoman's photography is gorgeous, not in a"Showing Off" kind of way, but beautiful on color and simplicity. The script is also very well written (even if it could be 5 minutes shorter) and that's really an immense pleasure to enjoy short a great film. Another thing that really is important to me: that film should be an example of how you should show a foreign country/culture in a movie. That's one of the first American fiction films that I see, that was shot abroad and doesn't show the locals as complete idiots or builds his comedy on making fun of the country and all the hard time adapting to it. And it's not a holiday postcard either. So if the film is showing in a theater near you: run and watch it!
Guernica (1978)
Very little memory...
Unfortunately,I can't say much about this movie because it is a distant memory... I've had the chance to see it in a festival in Italy some years ago. But there is one thing I will ALWAYS remember and that I want to share with everyone, there is a line saying that: "When the germans found the painting Guernica, they asked Picasso: -Have you done this painting? -No, YOU did it..." Isn't that wonderful? I don't know if that is a true event or not, but that was wonderful... This movie was very serious and dark and far from being as baroque and surrealist as Kusturicas other movies...It was a film made in the cinema school...That's about all I remember about it... Oh yes, and everyone had turned on their lighters during the movie, because we had been handed a sheet with the translation of the dialogs...Very peculiar atmosphere!