quirky
THE FUTURE
Sophie and Jason are a pair of slackers in their 30s’ who live in LA and both have jobs that they can barely tolerate. He works on an IT Support Helpline from home, and she is the worst ever dance teacher for young kids. They have been together for about 4 years with no talk…
SLEEPING BEAUTY
An emotionless Lucy seems bored with her life. She works two dead-end jobs, one as waitress in a cheap restaurant, and the other as a mailroom office temp whose main task is to collate duplicated papers. She also earns money by having a hose shoved down her throat for medical research. Somehow in between all…
LIGHTS IN THE DUSK
This is my third movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Ari Kaurismaki that I have seen in as many weeks, and I am developing quite a taste for his work. This one is the last in his ‘loser’ trilogy and deals with loneliness and is heart wrenching sad. It is the tale of a Security Guard who…
LE HAVRE
There is a wonderful old-fashioned sensibility in this latest movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki that portrays an essentially gritty story about a major casualty of contemporary life as a somewhat sentimental fairy tale. Set in the French Port Town it tells of Marcel a shoeshine man who plies his diminishing trade wherever he…
