What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[girl_dee]

AMAZING story here.

[WomenMoveMe]

Wow...this movie made me all weepy about 20 different times. It is a Chinese film made in 2010. It tells the story of how a family was torn apart and rebuilt after death, loss, decision, and fate, in the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in which 240,000 lost their lives.

It more or less begins when a mother, who has already lost her husband to the earthquake, must decide which of her children is to live. The two children are trapped under a concrete slab at opposite ends. Moving the slab to save one, will crush the other. Both children are alive and can hear the rescuers pressuring the mother to make the decision. She must make the decision quickly or lose them both. The mother is anguished as she whispers, save my son. The daughter hears the mother make this decision and her silent tears were to cause the first of my many crying jags throughout this movie.

The daughter is taken from the rubble and laid beside her dead father. The mother and the son head off to rescue camps. It begins to rain heavily and the rain awakens the daughter, who obviously was not as dead as they thought.

I will not tell you more as I hope some of you will actually give this movie a look.

I loved loved loved this movie!!!

[Sparkle]

I saw "Hugo" this evening at the cinema.

Its a lovely film with a stellar cast, great writing, stunning cinematography and production design.

I would have preferred it not be in 3D (why gild the lily?)

[Rook]

Volver

I'd call it a Dramedy

Penélope Cruz plays a very independent and hard working woman dealing with a neurotic sister, a daughter smack in the middle of puberty among other issues.
After the much understood Murder of her srsly creepy asshole of a Husband, she tries to find a way to conceal any trace of evidence leading to the truth or the fact alone of his death, while her own aunts death puts a dent in a few plans already forged..
Her closest friend & neighbor, a medical marijuana user (diagnosed with Terminal Cancer) tries uncovering a personal mystery that bind them all together from events that happened long ago involving Raimunda's mother, (which is where everything leads to in the Film) she returns from the Dead in the process, for reasons u'd have to figure for yourself while watching....
It's got a serious plot revolving around Death with humor to soften the edges..

Caveat - If you don't foreign films with Subs, skip this.
It's better in original language, Spanish {Spain}.

Bonus: Cruz lip-syncs' a Flamenco rather well....The only part that's "musical" thankfully.

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz have made quite a few films together as Producer/Actor combo that are amazing...
Those 2 would be, for me , like... Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
w/o the "Camp"....

[SugarFemme]

Hey Rookie I have seen ALL of Almodovars films and I have loved each and every one of them. The two that have special places in my heart as they were the first two that I had seen are, "Tie me up! Tie me down!" and, "Matador". I just LOVED the metaphorical bullfight between the leads in, "Matador".

Originally Posted by Rook

Volver

I'd call it a Dramedy

Penélope Cruz plays a very independent and hard working woman dealing with a neurotic sister, a daughter smack in the middle of puberty among other issues.
After the much understood Murder of her srsly creepy asshole of a Husband, she tries to find a way to conceal any trace of evidence leading to the truth or the fact alone of his death, while her own aunts death puts a dent in a few plans already forged..
Her closest friend & neighbor, a medical marijuana user (diagnosed with Terminal Cancer) tries uncovering a personal mystery that bind them all together from events that happened long ago involving Raimunda's mother, (which is where everything leads to in the Film) she returns from the Dead in the process, for reasons u'd have to figure for yourself while watching....
It's got a serious plot revolving around Death with humor to soften the edges..

Caveat - If you don't foreign films with Subs, skip this.
It's better in original language, Spanish {Spain}.

Bonus: Cruz lip-syncs' a Flamenco rather well....The only part that's "musical" thankfully.

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz have made quite a few films together as Producer/Actor combo that are amazing...
Those 2 would be, for me , like... Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
w/o the "Camp"....

[ScandalAndy]

Yeah... I cried.... a lot. This one really got to me.

[Sparkle]

Oooooo two of my favorite films right in a row!

I LOVE Almodovar! 'Volver' is one of my favorite's of his.
An older Almodovar that I really loved is 'Dark Habits', very twisted dark humour (and as a former Catholic I liked it especially a lot, nothing like a naughty nun story)

'Farewell My Concubine' is visually stunning, if you loved that ScandalAndy try 'Raise the Red Lantern' another knock your socks off visually lush film.