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 Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:16 pm
any suggestions? ... i've got "Born into Brothels", "Turtles Can Fly", and "Osama", all v. depressing, but all middle eastern movies are ... they're good tho, don't get me wrong
[Multiple posts combined into one by A_L_R, for readability. Ellipses mark previous separation.]
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:18 pm
I'm moving this to our subforum. Also, if you have multiple things to say about the same subject, please put them all in the same post. We're trying to discourage one-line posts, and multiple one-liners in a row are obnoxious and clog up the thread.
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:52 pm
Having just watched it again, I'd highly recommend L'auberge Espagnole. It's not quite as "serious" as the ones you mentioned, but it has a great soundtrack and multicultural cast (the plot revolves around a group of students from all over Europe involved in an "exchange" program named Erasmus, where they all live together).
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:56 pm
Le yum. Let's see.
China
Raise the Red Lantern (Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua) is a fantastic movie about Chinese elite polygamous society and its effect on the many wives of a wealthy man. It's beautiful and... so... something. Indescribable.
France
The City of Lost Children (La Cite des Enfants Perdus), one of the single most bizarre and upsetting movies I've ever seen, but nonetheless has a certain draw that I cannot avoid. It's brilliant. Same guy who did Amelie. (And speaking of which... XP)
Brazil
City of God (Cidade de Deus) Talk about depressing, but just as nerve-tingling and exciting. It's about the drug rings in the slums of Rio and how they're basically run by children.
Carandiru is fo' shizzle one of my absolute favorite movies. It's a true story about the Carandiru prison riot, the "legal system" within the prison, the spread of HIV within, and the backstories of its inhabitants. It makes you so incredibly attached to each of the prisoners. Done from the perspective of the doctor who was brought to the prison to help stop the spread of HIV and provide psychiatric counseling.
Germany
Run, Lola, Run (Lola Rennt) is also one of my favorite movies, mainly because I'm so hopelessly in love with Franca Potente. Told in an overlapping, parallel-universe sort of way, it describes the day of a girl trying to get an enormous sum of money to her criminal boyfriend before he's killed for his debt. Over, and over, and over... One-woman heist movie. Supersexy. ^_^
The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und Die Kaiserein), also starring Franca Potente, tells the story of a nurse in a mental hospital and her bizarre relationship with the broken man who rescues her from drowning in her own blood after being hit by a truck.
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) is a rather adorable and poignant movie about a single chef who, while rather set in her ways, is surprised to suddenly inherit her niece upon her sister's death in a car accident. The actress who plays the little girl is wonderful. whee
Depressingly enough, Scott Hicks seems to be re-making this (2001, what?) film, in English, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. I hate when they do this. The original is amazing, and it's not even 10 years old yet. Why are they doing this? Why?
Aack, I need to run. Will post more later. ^_^
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