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De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)
great movie
I just saw this movie over the weekend with my girlfriend. We watched with subtitles as neither of us speak French. And aside for a few moments of being at a loss (more because we're American and its a French film), it was a great film. It's a story of a relatively successful young man in the real estate business. His father had to beat up clients to make them pay the bills. His deceased mother was a pianist. Happening to come across his mother's manager, he is provoked to regain his early talent at the piano. The movie documents his travels in learning to play the piano all over again and his life along this path. With his father and colleagues pushing him away from the piano, he gathers more steam. But his day job keeps him away from his "hobby" as everyone puts it. He gets increasingly frustrated with dealing with everyone else's problems and not being able to pursue his own challenges.
This is the type of film that ends and you are not sure if he reaches his goal. But you know that he is happy at the conclusion of the film. My only qualm? I don't think a single scene goes by without a cigarette being smoked. But then again, I think most of France has a cigarette lit.
LOC: Kargil (2003)
one hill war?
This was a movie that I hoped I could suggest to my American friends. But after 4 attempts to watch the movie to finish, I knew I couldn't even watch the damn thing to close. You are almost convinced the actual war didn't even last that long. Other's will try to question my patriotism for criticizing a movie like this. But flat out, you can't go from watching Saving Private Ryan to LOC. Forget about the movie budget difference or the audience - those don't preclude a director from making an intelligent movie. The length of the movie is not so bad and the fact that it is repetitive - they keep attacking the same hill but give it different names. I thought the LOC was a terrible terrain - this hill looked like my backyard. The character development sequences (the soilders' flashbacks, looking back to their last moments, before being deployed) should have been throughout the movie and not just clumped into one long memory. To this day, I have yet to watch the ending. But there was a much better movie (not saying much) called Border.