In these cold winter days, we’ve more time than we know what to do with.
So we do what we know best – watch movies or read books.
These are some of the movies we’ve watched recently:
* Au Revoir, les enfants (French) – A charming movie we watched last night on Netflix Instant Play.
Based on a real life incident in the early 1940s (the Nazi era for all ye schmucks), the French movie is a well-crafted story of life at a Catholic boarding school in occupied France and of budding friendship between two young boys – a Christian and a Jew, who’s in hiding.
The two young boys Gaspard Manesse and Raphael Fejto who play Julien Quentin and Jean Bonnet respectively play their parts very well and are a delight to watch. Way better than your Bollywood Amitabh Bachchans and Akshay Kumars. You have a foreboding the movie won’t end well for the boys and sadly, it doesn’t.
* For a Few Dollars More – We’ll do a full review of this Clint Eastwood spaghetti western later. All we’d like to say here is that this second film in the Dollar trilogy is a beautiful film with solid performances by both Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef.
Ennio Morricone’s score for the movie is for the ages (a mere 99-cents on iTunes). Continue reading »
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