The Chocolates Of Life

Category: Film

  • [Film] On Golden Pond

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    New house, extra large screen TV, comfortable couch and warm blanket! All this on a cold winter Saturday evening, with nothing else to do but relax a little. And we chose ‘On Golden Pond‘ and a glass of red wine to go with it.

  • [Film] Evil (Ondskan)

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    I saw Evil some years ago and somehow it got to my attention again a few days ago, as a friend of mine reminded me of it. I didn’t remember exactly what the story was about, so I decided to watch it again.

  • [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…

  • [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.

  • [Film] The Green Butchers – the best marinade ever

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    Since I really enjoyed watching ‘Adam’s Apples’ and ‘Flickering Lights’ , last night I decided to watch another Anders Thomas Jensen movie, called The Green Butchers. It was a good movie, but I can’t say I liked it as much as I liked the other two.

  • [Film] Elling – the beautiful story of a friendship

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    Being in my ‘watching Nordic movies’ period, I saw another great one a few days ago. This time is a new director, Petter Næss, a Norvegian director with few movies so far, but really worth checking out.

  • [Film] Pieta – new Kim Ki Duk movie

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    The controversial Koreean director Kim Ki Duk comes back this year with a new movie, called Pieta. The trailer looks good. Unfortunately it’s in koreean and I don’t understand a word of it 🙂 The movie will be out somewhere this August.

  • [Film] Flickering Lights – how to open a restaurant in the woods and be successful

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    Last night I saw another great movie from the Dutch director Anders Thomas Jensen. After Adam’s Apples, (I wrote about it here) which I found simply surprising, this time we have Flickering Lights, made in 2000. It tells the story of 4 gangsters from Copenhagen who steal a bag full of money and try to…