This film is great. I picked this one to start off the site specifically because it is great, and recently a new addition to my favorite movie list. The movie is set during World War II, and is an odd but moving love story. I say odd because the situation surrounding it and they way the characters interact is full of tension. So I guess it is a pretty normal love, which is odd for movies. The plot is fairly dry, love during war, but this is made up for by seriously amazing acting on the part of Juliane Köhler (Aimée), equally reciprocated by Maria Schrader (Jaguar). Of course there is some added tension that I will allow you to discover for your own.
So you can find this film in the foreign or German sections of your nearest movie rental, unless you rent from Blockbuster. Just kidding, they probably have it, I wouldn't know really. I bring up the foreign thing just to get this out of the way on the first blog, but I dislike the term foreign as a category. This movie is a romantic drama, which just happens to have been made outside of the U.S., has subtitles and is therefore relegated to the milieu of "foreign".
This movie has heavy lesbian themes, so if you are homophobic, go walk of a cliff and save us the trouble. Awww....no just kidding, but really, get some class. Love is love, and this story is going to go down as a classic.
Plot- 3
Directing- 4
Acting- 5
Cinematography-4
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Welcome to my new blog!
The blog is going to be dedicated to my movie reviews (and hopefully guest reviewers...*wink*wink*). I figured, any old weirdo can criticize movies (or do you say: "Provides Film Critiques"), why not this one? I will try not to spoil the movies for you, because I want you to go see them, unless I don't want you to go see them, in which case I will provide a warning and a blow-by-blow.
I'm tired of the old five star rating, so you may notice I've revamped that idea by having 5 categories with a five degree rating. Basically I don't think five degrees of rating alone can actually give you a good idea of the quality of movie. Sometimes a plot is great, and the movie sucks. How do you rate that?
This is how, categories:
Plot-
Directing-
Acting-
Cinematography- (includes special effects)
Gore-
*update, I have recently added gore to my categories because I realized that I'm somewhat desensitized to blood and gore, however you are most likely not. So I don't want to recommend a movie to you, just to have you loose your lunch and wish I was dead....
I'm tired of the old five star rating, so you may notice I've revamped that idea by having 5 categories with a five degree rating. Basically I don't think five degrees of rating alone can actually give you a good idea of the quality of movie. Sometimes a plot is great, and the movie sucks. How do you rate that?
This is how, categories:
Plot-
Directing-
Acting-
Cinematography- (includes special effects)
Gore-
*update, I have recently added gore to my categories because I realized that I'm somewhat desensitized to blood and gore, however you are most likely not. So I don't want to recommend a movie to you, just to have you loose your lunch and wish I was dead....
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