While not a terrible movie, "An Education" is far from new or interesting. The plot is completely predictable... such a cliché it really needs a curve ball to compensate. But it doesn't provide one. I had no idea Hornby was capable of such pabulum (I've loved everything else he's written). In fact, the resolution is so tame, harmless, unearned it feels like a perfume commercial. This is lazy film-making, and based on the critical reviews I really expected more. The acting is very good, as are costumes, but I was left with a great big sense of WHO CARES? Compared to Amelie, Guinevere, and Wish You Were Here, true masterpieces of female coming-of-age, this is a sodden piece of chintz.
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Outsourced
(2006)
Like going to India for 90 minutes
31 May 2007
The sweetest movie I've seen all year, full of funny cultural misunderstandings and whiffs of the foreigner experience. Amazing performances by Indian actors, especially a certain "Auntie G" who is the "Hyacinth Bouquet"/"Hostess with the Mostess" of Bombay. The fellow who plays Puri charms as consummate straight man to cross-cultural business humor. Loved that the company's products are American patriotic crapola, and that they still mean something to the striving foreign vendors. Much poetic poignancy between the laughs in this film. Josh Hamilton's character's evolution is believable and rewarding, reflecting a journey many more Americans need to take. Don't miss this trip!
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