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Tag Archives: Husband and Wife
In the House (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : On seductive/dangerous writing
Both frank and deceptive about what it is going to do, “In the House” simultaneously presents two plots and then observes how they roll together – and how they come to manipulate each other. The movie has a dark fun … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Family, High School, Husband and Wife, Teacher and Pupil, Writing
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Hitchcock (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Mr. & Mrs. Hitchcock – and “Psycho”
If you have some knowledge about Alfred Hitchcock, his life, and his chilling masterpiece “Psycho”(1960), “Hitchcock” will not surprise you. It mainly shows what we have known and heard about him and his personal life and his movies, and, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Actor, Director, Husband and Wife, Movie, Murder, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Side Effects (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Something doesn’t feel right
Something doesn’t feel right, and you wonder what it is as you are drawn to the ambiguous tone during the first half of “Side Effects”. Its story is one of those standard thriller plots frequently going beyond the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Husband and Wife, Mental Illness, Pharmacy, Psychiatrist, Thriller
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Chicken with Plums (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5) : Last week of an artist
“Chicken with Plums” is a film which would not have worked at all if it had been without its own distinctive style and humor. Its story is so old-fashioned that the movie is frequently on the verge of looking silly … Continue reading
Before Midnight (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3/5/4) : It’s still wonderful to meet them again
After long years, they live together as a couple. They are no longer two young students who accidentally met each other for the first time in “Before Sunrise”(1995), and they are more jaded than when they came across the possibility … Continue reading
Song for Marion (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A familiar song sung well
You know the song because you have listened to it before. You know how it will be performed because you have encountered it many times before. You know which instrument will be used for playing its certain notes, and you … Continue reading
Anna Karenina (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : Their life is theater, after all
Being famous as one of the great works in Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel “Anna Karenina” has been adapted into movies and TV miniseries so many times since 1910 that I am sure most of you are already familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged Affair, Aristocracy, Husband and Wife, Literature, Romance, Russia
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Lincoln (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A portrait of a saintly and wily politician
During my childhood, I came across several sets of biographies of the famous historical figures for elementary school/kindergarten children, and Abraham Lincoln’s biography was a sort of obligatory volume in these sets like Jesus’ or Einstein’s was. Except nice illustrations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Constitution, Father and son, Husband and Wife, Law, Politician, President, Real-life figure, Real-life incident, Slavery, the Civil War, War
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Transsiberian (2008) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A wintry thriller on the Transsiberian Express
“Transsiberian” is a Hitchcockian thriller decorated with icy wintry landscapes, and it is a good example. It sets its tone right at the beginning, and then it carefully develops its unstable feeling as loading the story and the characters on … Continue reading
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Tagged Detective, Drug trafficking, Husband and Wife, Murder, Siberia, snow, Thriller, Train, winter
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Amour (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Scenes from their dying marriage
Our life is bound to be sad and depressing because of aging and subsequent death, and Michael Haneke’s new movie “Amour” shows that undeniable truth to us through an unsentimental but deeply harrowing observation of an aging couple who begin … Continue reading
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