Talaye sorkh (2003)

Crimson Gold is the first film I have seen of director Jafar Panahi, but the writer is Abbas Kiarostami. This may be blasphemy, but I might be getting tired of movies-without-stories nature of Iranian movies. The movie is well made and the lead actor Hossain Emadeddin is very good. He is supposed to be a very likable chracter, but I didn't find him particularly so. I am not clear why a frail looking rich guy would invite a BIG pizaa delivery man to inside his palatial apartment to share dinner. Maybe these things happen.

Maybe need for a while to see movies that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Un été inoubliable

AkA An Unforgettable Summer. A young Romanian army captain's wife is, err, approached, by a senior office during a Ball. Her playful ridicule earns her husband duty at the Bulgarian border. Once there, she tries to make friends with Bulgarians peasants captured. The high command orders their execution, which her husband refuses to comply with.

The same senior office visits the post in person, give a last chance offer to the captain. The captain still refuses, but the executions happen anyway. The army captain is called back to the base and given a hard time.

When the same senior office came to the border, I half expected the wife to offer herself so as to save the peasant's lives. Perhaps the initial scene was there to make audience expect that.

Fairly decent movie. Very pretty woman good acting by both her (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her husband Claudiu Bleont). 6.5/10.