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Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno) is a two hour must see movie that has left me enchanted and somewhat sad. It tells the story of young Ofelia, stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer, who survives harsh reality by escaping into a fantasy world. Director Guillermo del Toro shows us how children still have the ability to dream and use magic to make their life (and end) more bearable.
Since I welcome contributions to this blog by others, I asked my good friend Robbert to write a review about Last Tango in Paris. So here goes ….
The storyline of Inside Man (2006, directed by Spike Lee) is at first sight straightforward. Like Ocean’s 11, it is centered around the ever so popular perfect bank robbery theme, but many things are different right from the start.
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango In Paris” is this weeks’ special in film cafe ‘t Hoogt in Utrecht. Its lead actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004) is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time. So there was no way I was gonna miss this one. Going to the theatre for a classic movie beats watching a DVD at home anytime.
Its 7.5 rating at IMDB was a tell tale sign and made Robbert and me decide to watch the movie Inside Man in Utrecht’s Rembrandt theatre.
Yesterday, I saw the movie The Island starring Ewan McGregor as Lincoln Six Echo, and Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta. Lincoln and Jordan, like many others, live inside a seemingly perfect hightech institute, safely hidden from the contaminated outside world. Occasionaly, there is a lottery and the happy winner is allowed to go to The Island, the only place outside which is not contaminated.
Three Dutch film buffs drove to Kleve, Germany, to watch the fall of the dictator. We (Robbert, Maarten and I) arrived two hours before the start of the movie so we could enjoy large German beers and a perfect Schnitzel in the restaurant (annex Bierhaus) next door. Der Untergang tells the story of the last days of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in his hide-out, a bunker in Berlin. It is told from the perspective of Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge (1920-2002).