Marjane is a proud little girl, trying to understand what’s going on in the 1970’s Iran. Screaming “Down with the Shah!”, she stamps trough the room trying to make a statement. But as a teenager she finds out the Islamic fundamentalists, which have taken over her country, aren’t doing any better. Ridiculing all their new laws, she ultimately has to move to Austria for her own safety. However, this open country doesn’t bring her the peace and love she expected either.
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I had the feeling this coming-of-age story might go a little too deep for my taste. But thank God for Marjane! This charming little girl even makes the lessons in history entertaining. The creators of this movie, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, found the perfect balance between the autobiography of a young girl and a country.
I'm not sure why the authors chose to make this movie in black-and-white, but it somehow causes the movies look to be more authentic. The drawing itself is very minimalistic and stylized, but keeps every important expression alive in every way. All this, with the story itself, really makes you feel like you are watching an adult animation. It's like they wanted us to forget the cartoons these movies are usually associated with.
In the end, this movie is probably one of the most impressive Western animated movies I've seen. It tells these sometimes difficult subjects with such charm, it's really hard to forget.
Being totally obsessed with weddings, Jane has already been a bridesmaid for 27 times. Whenever someone’s asking her to be the maid of honour, she just can’t say no. After a night running from one wedding to another, she is picking up her sister, Tess, from the airport. That night Jane has a party from her work and invites Tess over. Once there, Tess meets Jane’s boss George and instantly falls in love with him. Unfortunately, Jane has a crush on him as well. When Tess and George decide to get married, Jane starts wondering… Is she ever going to get married or will she be a bridesmaid forever?
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Katherine Heigl, Jane, is really what makes this movie worth the popcorn. She is funny, charming and looking great. Her character is always there for everyone around her. Jane is taking care of every friend’s wedding and doing everything her boss is asking her to do and more. It is nice to see her character develop during the movie. At some point she is standing up for herself and finally doing what is making her happy.
Besides that, the movie has it’s funny moments and gives you the happy feeling people are usually getting from weddings.
As you might have noticed February 2008 is over, and this means it’s time for a movie top 10 for last month! We’ve been doing this for a little over a month now and what a fun time it has been. Thanks everybody for visiting, taking the movie polls and leaving your kind comments. It has been fun to build this small community with all of you. A small community of movie lovers out there on this very very big internet.
As I said, I thought it would be cool to do a monthly movie top 10. So based on your votes, here are the ten most and best voted movies in February: Continue reading February Top 10!
In the late fifties, Burt and Linda started something that would end in ‘crazy love’. Burt wasn’t handsome, but he was a very wealthy attorney. He owned a club and was exiting to Linda. What she didn’t know is, that Burt already was married and had a disabled daughter. She broke up after she found out. But Burt’s ego couldn’t handle this and he hired a couple of lowlifes to throw lye into her face – something like acid. “If I can’t have you, no one else will have you, and when I get through with you, no one else will want you.” This left her disfigured and almost blind. But 16 years later.. they got married.
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Would this have been a fictional movie, you would have said "yeah, right..", while shaking your head. But since it is a tale well documented by all sorts of media and even told by the two people themselves, this is a totally different story. If you ever read a weird article in the newspaper and wanted to know what was the real deal, this is the movie behind that story.
All this lye throwing and cheating happened way before I was born, so I didn't know anything about the story. Nonetheless, I was easily captivated by the way this happened and how these two people started to think. Most of the time you think, what is this woman doing? But there's this little light-bulb that kind of understands. Just for a minute, before it pops out again and gets too much. Cleverly edited and brought in a humorous way, this documentary is proving non-fiction can be better than fiction. Just because it's simply not fiction.
Also, just for the hell of it. If you saw the last episode of Lost (in the last week of February), the 'crazy' guy on the boat is Fisher Stevens, the co-director of this movie. Just wanted to share.
