1st watched 9/4/2005, 7 out of 10(Dir-Bernardo Bertolucci): Wonderfully, artistically-told story of an African woman who loses her husband to the authorities for what appears to be political reasons and is thrown in jail. She then moves into a building owned by an eccentric piano player as his maid and begins going thru medical school at the same time. Mr. Kinsky, played by David Thewlis, is infatuated with her very early on and even states that he loves her but her response is basically, show me by getting my husband out of jail. Kinsky then very secretly pursues this. Much of the story is shown to us visually and we kind of have to figure out what's going on which is an extremely fascinating use of visuals rather than dialogue that is so un-American and very European in it's style. The story unfolds not unlike a piano concerto before our eyes as the pieces of the puzzle start fitting together and Bertolucci gets us to watch the characters and be interested in them as they're going thru this. Even after Oscar wins and at an elderly age, Bertolucci is still making extremely character driven artistic movies that are each one of a kind and this one doesn't disappoint either.
