The Chocolates Of Life

Author: Biencutza

  • [Books] The Story of My Baldness – Arnon Grunberg

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    The title of this book made me laugh, the first time I heard about it. Then I read that ‘The story of my baldness‘ written by Arnon Grunberg, was banned in the Netherlands for quite some time and so it got to my attention even more. And here I am, buying the book and finishing…

  • [Film] Beasts of the Southern Wild

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    I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago and I was really happy to see that it was nominated to this year’s Oscar awards, after a brilliant last year with participation in most of the international film festivals where it succeeded in winning no more and no less than 35 awards.

  • [Film] Kim Ki Duk’s Pieta

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    Somewhere in November, in Bucharest, took place the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival.  Not really my kind of festival, it’s mainly short movies, just experiments, nothing too concrete. But for the opening, they brought Pieta. I was looking forward to see this movie since this spring and after the success it had in the Venice…

  • [Film] Of Snails and Men

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    The Romanian Director Tudor Giurgiu launched this year his 14th movie production, Of Snails and Men, a Romanian comedy meant to mock all our nation’s communist inherited habits. Here we are in a small town of Romania, some few years after taking down the communist regime. One of the biggest car building factories in Romania…

  • [Books] The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

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    After more than a month of continuous reading, I finally managed last night to read the last 50 pages of Haruki Murakami’s book ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’. Being a big fan of Murakami I’ve now arrived at reading 8 of his books in the last three years. I am so used to his style, but…

  • [Germany] Munich and its surroundings

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    3 days in Germany! Yay! Still my favorite country in Europe. After three years of going to Berlin, this time it’s Bavaria time! So here we are, on a Friday morning, very early, in a plane (enjoying the German Alps and the sunrise) supposed to land to Memmingen, somewhere 100 kilometers from Munich.

  • Spinach Soup

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    Spinach soup is a very fast and easy dish,  full of vitamins and energy. I cooked it last night as I was in the mood for something delicious, but light. Ingredients: Fresh or frozen spinach – about 400  grams 2 carrots 1 celery 1 parsnip 2 potatoes garlic Sour cream Fresh milk Parsley and dill…

  • [Austria] 60 hours in Vienna

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    Since Andreea wrote about her one week trip to Vienna a few weeks ago, I decided to write a few words myself about the three-day trip we took in the same time with her and Petru. I must admit that we are not the tourist type, going to a new city and starting exploring all…

  • [Film] Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu

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    Cristian Mungiu‘s latest movie, Beyond the Hills, had its premier in Romania about two weeks ago. After the great success it had in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, winning the Best Screenplay Award and Best Actress Award (for the two main actresses), I decided that I definitely should go watch it in the cinema.

  • [Film] Despues de Lucia

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    About Despues de Lucia I have heard a lot of good things this year. It participated in the Venice Film Festival and then it won the ‘Un certain Regard’ award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. I went to see it a few evenings ago and it succeeded in surprising me in the strongest possible…

  • [Film] Killing them Soflty – Bad Guy Brad Pitt

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    This week we have in Bucharest screenings of the films that were presented to the Cannes Festival this year and last night I went to see Andrew Dominik‘s movie Killing them softly.

  • 2012 Summer travels review

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    The summer is over, the winter is near 🙂 But this summer was a special one, with smiles, joy and lots of traveling. It was the summer with the most trips and hopefully next one will have more (we already have some places on the list).