Hello again FFF!
It's been quite a while since the last post, but we've had so much success picking awesome movies on the spot that I didn't provide trailers for options. In these past few months, there have been quite a few spanish language films (Santa Sangre, Bendito Infierno (has Javier Bardem for Arelys, and Gael Garcia Bernal for Larissa :) ), maybe a frenchy (I think), and the South Korean I'm a Cyborg, But that's OK. Also, for the Halloween special we watched The Brain from Planet Arous, found on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFSeNed7mbU. If anyone can recall the others from after No please let me know. I can't seem to remember them all. Gracias.
For tomorrow's movie night, I've picked out a couple of dramas:
I. Elena, by Andrey Zvyagintsev, is a Russian drama about an old-fashioned couple's struggles to provide inheritance to children from previous relationships. The wife (Elena) has 'married up' in class but her wealthy husband, Vladimir, refuses to support her son's education, which would keep him from compulsory military service. Vladimir, plans to give everything to his estranged wild-child daughter. Music by Phillip Glass. I think that says it all….
II. The Piano in a Factory is a Chinese (Mandarin) drama which also deals with a strained relationship (a divorce, in fact), but focuses on the couple's custody battle. The musician daughter decides that she will stay with whichever parent provides her with a piano. When the desperate father, Chen, fails to gather enough money to purchase one, he comes up with a plan: to build a piano for his daughter. Music by awesome classical composers, I assume. Being not Russian, it will probably be less dark too :)
Hope to see you tomorrow night friends! Abrazos,
---FFF
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