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Emily in Paris (2020)
Emily lives to show off in Paris
Emily produced by 31 year old daughter of Phil, Lily Collins, looks and acts 17 as Emily.. But it is full of the best views of Paris by day and night! It is a Darren Star production but is not like his American hits.
It is fun for young people and those who like romance.
Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
10 women with real identity problems
This is a series of 10 monologues spoken into the camera about their experiences with men including a description of the loss of virginity. Alicia Witt, Radha Mitchell and Lisa Gay Hamilton. Although there are very good actresses speaking the dialog, it has great weaknesses. Rodrigo Garcia was more successful with his series In Treatment! The free associations of each woman are illuminating, but the individual women have extremely low opinion of themselves interacting with men. One even says she forgets who she is and who they are. Another waits a long time to meet someone and then offers oral sex to attract her man, but is snubbed by his falling asleep afterwards. Kathy Baker was the most sensual and most on topic of what makes a relationship. One female friend said she had nightmares after seeing this film in the evening before going to sleep.
Mei li ren sheng (2011)
An inspiring movie
This film is all heart. A policeman rescues a drunk real estate agent who is drop dead gorgeous and takes her home. He stands by her throughout the film despite her sometimes ignoring how good he is to her. The message is anti-materialism and shows there might be hope for china before they follow our path to decline in the USA. He is good to everyone in his life and at work, but tragedy keeps falling on him, but he does not give up hope. He takes care of his little brother. The photography is very well done and the actors are top rate. It has been nominated for Hong Kong Movie awards and should be nominated for best foreign picture if Harvey Weinstein does not promote the Intouchables through the roof.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
You were never Lovelier, Rita Hayworth
Fred Astaire does his most varied dancing with an American Beauty, Rita Hayworth in Buenos Aires in this wartime film. Two highlights of the film for dance aficionados are a Celtic wedding out of Brittany and a brilliant pairing of Astaire and Hayworth in a "tour De force" dance on a penthouse ballroom to the Jerome Kern song I'm Old Fashioned. Rita even sings the song beautifully before they really start to cut up the floor. The latter gave Jerome Robbins the idea for one of his most unusual ballets for the NY City Ballet company, I'm Old Fashioned, The Astaire Variations. He starts it with the clip from the film, You Were Never Lovelier, and the variations that follow are of the company and principals learning the steps, especially an infectious rocking back and forth and then moving forward pattern. The finale is of the entire cast of Principals and company dancers dancing the same steps as in the film in tuxes and ballroom gowns. This is a movie you want to see again and again as well as the Robbins ballet it gave rise to.
Roberta (1935)
Irene Dunne steals this movie from Fred and Ginger
Irene Dunne sings two Jerome Kern numbers, "Smoke gets in your eyes" and "Lovely to Look at" and is just that lovely. Fred dances up a storm and so does Ginger, but the latter is cast as an ordinary Indiana singer who masquerades as a Polish Countess. Irene Dunne is a fashion designer for the house of Roberta. She is much classier as a Russian émigré Princess who downplays her aristocratic origins. Fred is a band leader and hoofer for the Wabash Indianans and arrives in France to play at a Russian émigré club owner's café who is disappointed that they are not Indians. Fred grew up with Ginger in Indiana, but puts own foreign airs to land a job at the same café. His best friend and football coach played by Randolph Scott goes along for the ride and ends up as Irene Dunne's business partner. Plenty of room for entanglements follow.
Away We Go (2009)
This is a funny and serious film about starting out as a young couple having a baby outside of a formal marriage,
This is a film that starts out with the two characters, played by Krasinski of the Office and Maya Rudolph of Saturday Night Live, who are living together unmarried in squalor. They are anything but appealing, so do not leave the theater. Sam Mendes proceeds to create a film, that with humor and pathos, has his main characters grow as their escapades matured their future of a life together. There is one scene, which is one of rare real intimacy in a film. A supporting cast of Allison Janney, Jeff Daniels and a wacky Maggie Gyllenhaal add to the humor of an otherwise serious film. The photography is tight as a TV program, while scenic shots are attempts at fine art with clever angles and reflections.