Sometimes when I am out of breakfast yoghurt I have to visit the baker in Croydon. What pleasure, what joy.
Not because of the enormous amount of cakes they have (ok, I admit I was weak).
But because of the way the woman behind the counter pronounces “croissant”.
French talking English is good. English talking French is just cakey.
The last review for now, I promise. But this film deserves all the support it can get.
Scenes of a sexual nature (checkout the trailer) (IMDB)
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we’re all involved in it.
I guess you could consider this Love Actually for grown ups, or Life Actually maybe. Here you have 7 stories about relationships, 7 conversations between 7 x 2 people who in some way have a relation with each other. And all that filmed on a sunny day on Hampstead Heath, which is, as you all know, a perfect place to indulge some chocolate to enjoy a view over beautiful London and to speculate about life a bit.
Apart from the chocolate, that’s exactly what those people do. You get a peek into 7 different types of relationships. 7 short stories bundled together in one feature film. Nothing much really happens in the film, but it is strangely intrigueing and addicting to watch and I could have watched hours and hours more. Thanks to a great script with a lot of wit, and of course an army of talented British actors, this is a film absolutely worth seeing.
Julliette Binoche and new talent Rafi Gavron in Breaking and Entering
OK: UK 1 – Denmark 1
Here is film number 3 entering the list of films with top ratings, one you simply have to see:
Breaking and Entering
[rating:5/5]
That was the short version.
If you want the longer version, including reading how it was to attend a Q&A with Anthony Minghella, director of this film and of films like Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley and the fantastic The English Patient, how incredibly inspiring it was for me to hear him talk about his work, and why I loved this film so much – well you know the drill. Clicketyclick.
Oh just one funny coincidence, both After the Wedding (Denmark) and Breaking and Entering (UK) have Sigur Ros on their soundtrack. Both beautiful songs, and both suiting so well into the atmosphere of both films. Of course you all know that the magical song in The Girl In The Cafe is by Sigur Ros too. If not – go and do your homework. Tssk.