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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Non-English Language Movies
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Like the TV Edition edition one, I will make this theme a permanent fixture, so you'll see it again next year if we are still doing this thing. Here are my picks from some of my recent watches:
The Invisible Guest (2016)
The Invisible Guest (2016)
A wealthy businessman, Adrian, is arrested when he is found in a hotel room with his dead lover. While his own lawyer is away on a lead for his case, Adrian is recommended to meet with another veteran lawyer who can help build a defense for trial and so he begins to tell her all that had happened that led to his arrest. I really enjoyed this, it's a nice mystery thriller with a couple of twist and turns that makes you question if you can believe the story you are being told.
Orbiter 9 (2017)
Orbiter 9 (2017)
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young woman who has spent her entire life on a spaceship heading towards a distant colony planet has her world upended when an engineer boards her ship for repairs. I like it. It's a space sci-fi movie that isn't too sci-fi-ish. It's a little like Moon with the whole cost of science and putting people through strenuous ordeals for it, so if you like that, you might like this.
I Am Not an Easy Man (2018)
I Am Not an Easy Man (2018)
After an accident, a shameless chauvinist wakes up to a world where gender roles are reversed and women dominate in every aspect of society. Despite the premise, this is quite a light comedy, still some of the details in it are just so well observed. I think the people who wrote and made this must have had a lot of fun coming up with how the world would look like with the roles reversed.
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These are all new to me but sound intriguing especially the first.
ReplyDeleteSince it was a wide open choice I winnowed down by going with all French films for my picks.
A Man Escaped (1956)-Director Robert Bresson tells the tale of Fontaine (François Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, who is being held by the Nazis at Fort Montluc. Notified that he is scheduled for execution he begins to devise a plan to break out. Things are coming together slowly when he is assigned a new roommate. At first wary but needing to proceed Fontaine grudgingly brings the newcomer into the escape effort relying on crudely made weapons and an intricate knowledge of the prison’s layout to try for his freedom. Tense and involving this is based on fact.
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)-Duplicitous Florence (an extraordinary Jeanne Moreau) married to the wealthy arms dealer Simon Carala (Jean Wall) is carrying on an illicit affair with one of his employees, Julien (an equally fine Maurice Ronet). They make a pact to dispose of Simon so late one night Julien climbs a rope into Simon's office, kills him and leaves unnoticed. Anxious to get away from the site Julien accidentally leaves the rope at the crime scene. After retrieving it he becomes stuck in the building's elevator while Florence desperately waits below. Frantic he soon finds that his bad luck is just beginning. Compelling, nerve jangling noir filmed with enormous style by Louis Malle.
Police Python 357 (1976)-One night while pursuing a crook loner police inspector Marc Ferrot (Yves Montand) meets and is immediately smitten with the alluring Sylvia (Stefania Sandrelli) and they begin an affair. Unknown to Ferrot Sylvia is the mistress of his direct superior Commissaire Ganay (François Périer) who when he discovers the liaison murders Sylvia in a fit of jealousy. Panicked Ganay confesses his crime to his paralyzed wife Thérèse (Simone Signoret) who offers him advice on how to shift the evidence away from himself. Once the death is discovered Ferrot is assigned to investigate and as he wades through the case finds that all evidence points to him. Now he must race the clock to reveal the true culprit. A reworking of the 1948 Charles Laughton/Ray Milland film The Big Clock and rethought again in 1987 as the Kevin Costner/Gene Hackman No Way Out.
Have not seen any of your picks....not even the Hollywood remake you mentioned.
DeleteI haven’t seen any of these but I’d like to see the firs5 and third one..I hope to one day.
ReplyDeleteThey're all on Netflix.
DeleteI haven't seen any of these but I'd like to see The Invisible Guest.
ReplyDeleteI'm totally waiting to see if Hollywood is going to remake this. Apparently Bollywood is already remaking it.
DeleteI haven't seen any of these but the first two sound like something I'd watch. I'll have to throw those in my Netflix queue.
ReplyDeleteHaha yes...they're all on Netflix :)
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