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At the Cinema - L'auberge Espagnole
L'auberge Espagnole is a film by French writer and director Cedric Klapisch. It tells the story of Xavier, a French student who spends a year studying Economics in Barcelona via the Erasmus program. It follows his adventures of dealing with another...
January / February 2013
At the Cinema - Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut. That in itself should be of interest to any language lover. Inuktitut is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada, where...
March / April 2013
At the Cinema - Lost in Translation
From the title itself, "Lost in Translation" sounds like a great movie about languages. It does have a few languages in it, with the story revolving around two Americans in Japan. English and Japanese are obviously involved, but there are also brief...
May / June 2013
At the Cinema - Kukushka - The Cuckoo
Kukushka - The Cuckoo
PG-13 99 min
Drama / War / Comedy
12 September 2002 (Russia)
Country: Russia
Languages: Saami / Finnish / Russian / German
Someone suggested I watch this movie because of the language interactions, so I figured I would try...
July / August 2013
At the Cinema - Whale Rider
Warning: This review does give away the whole story, but the story is not hard to guess from the title and first 10 minutes of the film.
The movie Whale Rider, based upon a book of the same name, focuses on the culture of the Maori people of New Zealand....
September / October 2013
At the Cinema - Bombay
The 1995 Bollywood movie Bombay is of interest in this review not because of its language or linguistic importance but because of its historical, cultural and religious connections. In some ways, it is a rather typical Indian movie, with a love story...
November / December 2013
At the Cinema - Mal Día Para Pescar - Bad Day to Go Fishing
This month, I will be reviewing a Uruguayan film which takes place in South America while starring a Scotsman who plays a descendant of European royalty, a Finnish man playing a German, and an Italian woman playing a South American.
Mal Día Para Pescar...
January / February 2014
At the Cinema - Pane e Tulipani - Bread and Tulips
This months review is about a simple romantic comedy from Italy called Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips). The lead character is an Italian housewife named Rosalba who lives in Pescara with her two sons and her husband, Mimmo.
We first see the family...
March / April 2014
At the Cinema - Il Comandante e la Cicogna - Garibaldi's Lovers
Despite the English title, Garibaldi's Lovers is not a steamy, torrid film full of sex scenes and love stories. It is a single love story and comedy between a widowed plumber and a struggling artist (why are the artists always struggling? Haven't they...
May / June 2014
At the Cinema - Xingu
The film Xingu is the story about how the Villas-Bôas brothers, Claudio, Leonardo and Orlando, created the first Indian park in Brazil to protect the indigenous tribes from the encroaching Brazilian government. It is based upon the true story, even...
July / August 2014
At the Cinema - Ludo
Ludo is the first feature film to come out of the Faroe Islands in fifteen years – and it's a dark one. It was written and directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir, who is also behind the road-trip movie Bye Bye Bluebird (1999) and the slice-of-life relay Atlantic...
September / October 2014
At the Cinema - Everybody's Famous!
We all need someone to believe in us. That is the very heart of the plot in the Belgian film "Everybody's Famous!". It is a comedy revolving around one man's attempt to make his daughter a famous pop star by kidnapping the current famous singer.
Jean...
November / December 2014
At the Cinema - Chinese Puzzle
The film Chinese Puzzle is the third film in a romance comedy trilogy. The first was L'auberge Espagnole, which is one of my favourite films [reviewed in Parrot Time #1], in which we meet our main character, a Frenchmen named Xavier, and follow his...
January / February 2015
At the Cinema - Viva La Libertà
You don't need to understand the world of Italian politics to appreciate the film Viva La Libertà (Long Live Freedom). Enrico Oliveri is an experienced politician, working as a senator and party leader of the center-left. Things are not going well,...
March / April 2015
At the Cinema - Dil Chahta Hai
This month, I am reviewing the 2001 Bollywood film Dil Chahta Hai. It is about three inseparable friends who all approach, and find, love in their own ways.
I can start by saying this is one of my favourite films of all time. I first saw it somewhere...
May / June 2015
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