romance
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
The original idea behind this latest movie version (the 17th) of this much beloved romantic 19th Century novel was to give it a glam Hollywood treatment with stars like Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbinder attached to play the leads, but the moment that Brit director Andrea Arnold came on board it was inevitable that this…
3
3 is really about 1 who wants both the other 2 who are not sure what they want. In Tom Twyker’s sophisticated amusing (but not very funny) comedy a reasonably good looking couple in their 40’s in Berlin are bored with their successful lives and with each other. She is the host of a pseudo…
NOT HERE TO BE LOVED aka Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
I so relate to the title of this movie, as it is something I would probably scream out at the top of my voice in a temper tantrum before everybody, me included, would burst out laughing. It was what first made me notice this movie in the Netflix catalogue, but the reason I then sat…
LIKE CRAZY
So here’s a story that I can relate too personally: how the course of true love was knocked off-kilter because one of the lovers was American and the other a Brit and they were the subject to all the red-tape of immigration restrictions. The fact that one of them overstayed their visa didn’t help their…
